Letters to My Weird Sisters

On Autism and Feminism

By: Joanne Limburg

Narrated by: Jennifer Smith

An autistic feminist author looks at women's history, in search of her 'weird sisters.'

It seemed to me that many of the moments when my autism had caused problems, or at least marked me out as different, were those moments when I had come up against some unspoken law about how a girl or a woman should be, and failed to meet it.

An autism diagnosis in midlife enabled Joanne Limburg to finally make sense of why her emotional expression, social discomfort and presentation had always marked her as an outsider.

Eager to discover other women who had been misunderstood in their time, she writes a series of wide-ranging letters to four 'weird sisters' from history, addressing topics including autistic parenting, social isolation, feminism, the movement for disability rights and the appalling punishments that have been meted out over centuries to those deemed to fall short of the norm.

This heartfelt, deeply compassionate and wholly original work humanizes women who have so often been dismissed for their differences, and will be celebrated by 'weird sisters' everywhere.

©2021 Joanne Limburg (P)2022 Tantor

A must listen for the late diagnosed autistic

This book broke my heart about 27 different ways as I could see myself in all of these pages, staring, slightly exasperated, back at the woman who needed 35 years an a gentle but pleading suggestion from a friend to consider autism as a possibility for themselves.

Love love love, highly recommend

This is a fantastic book, so important, and I wish everyone would read it! Will likely read again.

Great book / poor narration

It was hard to focus on the author’s excellent writing because of the quality of the narration. She had a decent enough voice, but there were so many awful mouth noises when she spoke! It was torturous to listen to with headphones. I recommend listening to this one over your device’s speakers. Again, it’s written very well, but it was really hard to focus because of all of the extra noises.