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You need to know a lot of philosophy and be okay with never getting a climate to some of these concepts.

Revisado: 04-17-23

So much of this book is deeply stoned philosophical discussions. You have to know a lot of concepts to get any of it. It gets so lost and deep on topics that are indirectly about attention that it’s kind of comical that the book about attention was unable to focus on the topic. The first half of this book was the worst. Just a ton of rambling. The second half of the book slowly starts to focus and then finally the final 3 chapters start to make it happen. A lot of what I expected to be focused on while reading this just didn’t manifest. This book was greatly disappointing.

A lot of the deeper points were big teases. It almost feels like a point is going to be made and make everything clear and then it doesn’t happen. This book needed a great editor.

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Good but please stop suggesting lists as a solution.

Revisado: 02-19-23

Overall this is a good read. It is still way to heavy on helping the ND person account for NT behavior, which means that I still haven’t found a book about how to communicate to NTs that they also need to compromise. It’s exhausting. But there is some of this in the book. However, the tips included here are hilariously dumb. “Make a list” drives me nuts. Wow, never thought of that, thanks! It’s silly to suggest these things over and over again. Still worth reading.

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Just another book for ASD people to feel inferior

Revisado: 01-09-23

This book is full of great info and a lot of interesting tidbits. But the centralized message across every book continues: “here’s how you with ASD can do all of the work and make NT people feel comfortable.” It’s written by someone with ASD that seems to believe it’s entirely their responsibility to fix all things they seem wrong about them. It may sound honest. But it’s not. It’s actually accusatory. There is nothing in this book so far that talks about how to ask NT people to meet us half way. There’s no understanding of the volume of work this causes. It’s just “here’s what we do wrong and how to fix it.” We aren’t wrong. We don’t exist to make everyone else comfortable. Where are the books about talking to NTs to have them do some of the work and the books for NTs to learn how to work with us?

Also, this is still wrapped in capitalist theory on productivity, everything is so deeply connected to work performance. The world is the most productive it’s ever been. This is not a concern.

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Too much focus on productivity and capitalist return; a lot of “I’m better” undertones

Revisado: 01-02-23

This book was a good introduction to my own ways of thinking. I didn’t have the vocabulary to communicate it to others. This intro runs for the first few hours of the book. But then it feels like a hard left turn into helping visual thinkers, mostly neurodivergent folks, be more marketable for jobs and raising productivity. It all becomes about work. The entire theory seems to be rooted in “visual thinking is a superpower” and suddenly it’s all about how we can extract corporate value. Mind you, there is no direct call for corporate value, but the underlying discussion is focused on how people do amazing things at work. I’m generally disappointed that this is so deeply focused on work. I get that we apply our thinking at work and many of us spend a lot of time at work, but there is so much more to how my brain works than wha to can give at work.

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Interesting hypotheses paired with conspiracy led pseudoscience

Revisado: 10-24-22

It’s extremely difficult to determine for yourself which of the authors concepts are true and which are simply his own.

Maybe his effort to talk about this in common English was a way to make the research approachable, but it comes off like some guy who actually doesn’t know what he’s talking about because he is constantly translating what would be medical/science speak into plain English. Listening to a grown man, apparently a doctor, constantly talk about “gut buddies” doesn’t aid in building trust and legitimacy.

And lastly, he suggests at one point that we all know that neurological conditions like autism and adhd are “curable” via gut health and immune therapy. The whole “the establishment is purposely ignoring new science that sounds a bit strange” trope is outdated. This, in addition to a shortlist of other off the cuff comments about things that would be shocking to most but not to him, make this book hard to want to finish.

Some of this is exploratory and helps to open conversations about how to best treat our bodies. But most of this is a bridge too far from objective reality, getting further and further away as you get deeper into the book.

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Audiobook is the best

Revisado: 04-08-16

The story was great. Fantastic history lesson, however you need to listen to the audiobook. The narration is a fantastic theatrical experience and the emphasis on specific words or phrases really helps you delve into the mind of Idiot America.

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10/10

Revisado: 02-25-16

loved it. listen to the audio book instead of a manual read; Shonda narrates her story so well.

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