Autism Uncensored: Pulling Back the Curtain

By: Whitney Ellenby

Narrated by: Whitney Ellenby

Autism Uncensored goes where no other book dares - revealing the private disgrace and self-blame about having a “defective” child; the near disintegration of marriage; the failure of the traditional behavioral interventions; and the mercenary way in which service providers prey on parents’ desperation for a cure. It is a personal manifesto about how a socially integrated life is attainable regardless of whether a child overcomes the major limitations of Autism, sparking a new conversation which goes beyond simply accepting persons with Autism for who they are, but considers pushing them beyond their comfort zones to learn who they are capable of becoming. An unstoppable ride with jolting twists and turns, Autism Uncensored will leave you exhilarated, informed, and still gasping for air.

©2018 Whitney Ellenby (P)2020 Whitney Ellenby

Vulnerability and honesty

Beautifully written. I appreciated the authors vulnerability in telling her story. Often this is sugarcoated. I found Whitney through her ambassador program and wasn’t aware of her full journey in treatment for her son.

So relatable.

I am a mom of a 5 year old going through very similar circumstances. I felt SO validated in my feelings for this book, I've actually reached out to and conversed with the author. There is a lot of negative comments about this book but I'm CERTAIN you wont find a single one of them from an actual special needs parent. You don't know until you KNOW. I highly recommend this book to parents of SN kids, it was the lecture I didn't know I needed and the validation I so desperately craved.

Incredible book

The book Autism Uncensored: Pulling Back the Curtain, provides an honest, uncensored, relatable, and unfiltered experiences and challenges. But again, as a parent of an 8 year old boy with ASD, I prefer things in the raw and real form. I don’t have time for sugar-coded promises which will never become a reality. I could relate to 80-90% of the experiences shared by the author. We’ve had the same struggles and same realities. The moment of truth is when we snap out of the dream and fixating to fix our child or cure their conduction and we try to embrace them as who they are and understand that they view the same world as us just from a different lease. Thank you Wendy for sharing your family’s expenses and reassuring me that I also have tried any and every possible resource to help my sons become a happy and highly functioning individual.

beautifully written

I loved listening to this point. It is beautifully written with honest feelings that any parent or caregiver struggles with. I like that the experiences are well detailed so that others that are not familiar with the life we live can have a better idea of what we go through on a day to day basis. I also like that the author stresses for parents to trust their own instincts for what works for their child.