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A funny, unflinchingly honest, and deeply compassionate memoir about one woman's experience of raising an autistic child while discovering she is also "on the spectrum"
Almost 10 years after learning that her son is autistic, Julie Green was also diagnosed, shedding light on a lifetime of feeling othered and misunderstood. Motherness traces Julie's journey from childhood to early motherhood, when she must advocate for her son while navigating her own struggles.
With more girls and women being diagnosed in the last decade - many of them later in life - the face of autism is changing. Motherness provides a rich, intensely personal account of what it is like to be autistic, through the lens of both a mother and child. Topics include sensory processing, meltdowns and shutdowns, masking, empathy, alexithymia, bullying, elopement, special interests, disordered eating, gender diversity, twice exceptionality, and more.
Motherness is a story about accepting your child while learning to accept yourself. This extraordinary, groundbreaking memoir speaks to the great challenges and great joys of autism, providing valuable insights to parents of autistic children, adults newly diagnosed or questioning their place on the spectrum, and anyone seeking a greater understanding of neurodiversity.
Spanning 13 years-beginning with pregnancy and ending with diagnosis-Motherness is a deeply personal account of an autistic mother raising an autistic child. It covers sensory processing, meltdowns, masking, empathy, bullying, special interests, and more. Tender and incisive, it's essential for parents navigating their own autism diagnoses.
Julie M. Green is a Kingston-based writer whose work has been featured in the Washington Post, HuffPost, The Globe and Mail, Today's Parent, and Chatelaine. She has appeared on CTV, BBC Radio, SiriusXM, and CBC Radio. She writes The Autistic Mom on Substack. For more information, visit JulieMGreen.ca.
"Julie Green's debut memoir Motherness is informative, offering interesting insights into a multi-faceted history of autism spectrum disorder, and it is also a deeply felt, personal account of what it is like to raise a neurodivergent child as a neurodivergent mother. But much greater than the sum of those parts, Green's gorgeous writing carries this deeply human story, which is filled with curiosity, honesty, humour, and above all, love." -Harriet Alida Lye, author of Natural Killer and Let It Destroy You
"Motherness is all about loving the child you're raising and accepting the parent you are. A fiercely honest and wildly compassionate memoir."-Ann Douglas, author of Parenting Through the Storm
Sales and Market Bullets
• RELEVANT AND TIMELY: Motherness will be published in time for October, Autism Acceptance Month in Canada. Motherness forms part of a broader narrative that is only beginning to be explored, and on social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok, posts about lesser-known traits of autism and people unmasking are incredibly popular.
• PREVALENCE OF AUTISM: The CDC reports that over 5.5M people are diagnosed with autism in the U.S. Currently, about one in every 36 children is diagnosed, though there's strong evidence the condition remains underdiagnosed among women, trans people, and people of color.
• UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE: Green offers a fresh voice in an area often dominated by two narratives: memoirs by autistic savant males and accounts by neurotypical parents of autistic children. This memoir is a deeply personal, honest look at autism through the experiences of a mother and her only child - by turns funny, messy, wonderful, and heartbreaking. Readers will feel seen in stories that don't sugarcoat the challenges and joys of autism.
• CONNECTION BUILDING: Parents, especially mothers, want to know that they are not alone. Readers may inc
Almost 10 years after learning that her son is autistic, Julie Green was also diagnosed, shedding light on a lifetime of feeling othered and misunderstood. Motherness traces Julie's journey from childhood to early motherhood, when she must advocate for her son while navigating her own struggles.
With more girls and women being diagnosed in the last decade - many of them later in life - the face of autism is changing. Motherness provides a rich, intensely personal account of what it is like to be autistic, through the lens of both a mother and child. Topics include sensory processing, meltdowns and shutdowns, masking, empathy, alexithymia, bullying, elopement, special interests, disordered eating, gender diversity, twice exceptionality, and more.
Motherness is a story about accepting your child while learning to accept yourself. This extraordinary, groundbreaking memoir speaks to the great challenges and great joys of autism, providing valuable insights to parents of autistic children, adults newly diagnosed or questioning their place on the spectrum, and anyone seeking a greater understanding of neurodiversity.
Spanning 13 years-beginning with pregnancy and ending with diagnosis-Motherness is a deeply personal account of an autistic mother raising an autistic child. It covers sensory processing, meltdowns, masking, empathy, bullying, special interests, and more. Tender and incisive, it's essential for parents navigating their own autism diagnoses.
Julie M. Green is a Kingston-based writer whose work has been featured in the Washington Post, HuffPost, The Globe and Mail, Today's Parent, and Chatelaine. She has appeared on CTV, BBC Radio, SiriusXM, and CBC Radio. She writes The Autistic Mom on Substack. For more information, visit JulieMGreen.ca.
"Julie Green's debut memoir Motherness is informative, offering interesting insights into a multi-faceted history of autism spectrum disorder, and it is also a deeply felt, personal account of what it is like to raise a neurodivergent child as a neurodivergent mother. But much greater than the sum of those parts, Green's gorgeous writing carries this deeply human story, which is filled with curiosity, honesty, humour, and above all, love." -Harriet Alida Lye, author of Natural Killer and Let It Destroy You
"Motherness is all about loving the child you're raising and accepting the parent you are. A fiercely honest and wildly compassionate memoir."-Ann Douglas, author of Parenting Through the Storm
Sales and Market Bullets
• RELEVANT AND TIMELY: Motherness will be published in time for October, Autism Acceptance Month in Canada. Motherness forms part of a broader narrative that is only beginning to be explored, and on social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok, posts about lesser-known traits of autism and people unmasking are incredibly popular.
• PREVALENCE OF AUTISM: The CDC reports that over 5.5M people are diagnosed with autism in the U.S. Currently, about one in every 36 children is diagnosed, though there's strong evidence the condition remains underdiagnosed among women, trans people, and people of color.
• UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE: Green offers a fresh voice in an area often dominated by two narratives: memoirs by autistic savant males and accounts by neurotypical parents of autistic children. This memoir is a deeply personal, honest look at autism through the experiences of a mother and her only child - by turns funny, messy, wonderful, and heartbreaking. Readers will feel seen in stories that don't sugarcoat the challenges and joys of autism.
• CONNECTION BUILDING: Parents, especially mothers, want to know that they are not alone. Readers may inc