GIRL UNMASKED

A powerful bestselling memoir by influencer and advocate on what it s like living as a troubled teenager with undiagnosed autism A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Moving and powerful Should be essential reading for mental health professionals and anyone with autism in their lives FERN BRADY author of Strong Female Character This book will bring so many readers self recognition and comfort DEVON PRICE author of Unmasking Autism Vulnerable affecting and deeply personal Elle McNicoll bestselling author A brilliant thorough exploration of autistic experience delivered with humanity compassion and vivid clarity Pete Wharmby author of Untypical To the outside world Emily looks like a typical girl with a normal family living an ordinary life But inside Emily does not feel typical and the older she gets the more she realises that she is different As she finally discovers when she is 16 Emily is autistic Girl Unmasked is the extraordinary story of how she got there and how she very nearly didn t Still only 21 Emily writes with startling candour about the years leading up to her diagnosis How books and imagination became her refuge as she sought to escape the increasing anxiety and unbearable stresses of school life how her OCD almost de