Journalist turned academic Emma Jane’s candid and darkly humorous memoir Diagnosis Normal describes the many lives she lived with gusto before embracing a new life when she had a late diagnosis of autism. In her warm and witty memoir, Late Bloomer, Clem Bastow writes how her life was also transformed after she was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder as an adult. Both books are funny, poignant and provide illuminating insight into the experience of living as a neurodiverse person in a neurotypical world.
Co-presented by Centre for Ideas, University of NSW.
Diagnosis Normal
'It is an extraordinary thing, to watch a brilliant mind examining itself and checking for wounds. I’ve never read a memoir like it.' Annabel Crabb