The Autistic Book Club discussion

This book has been on my radar for so long so I'm looking forward to finally reading it.
Has anyone else already read it? If so, what did you think of it?

I liked all the history in the beginning of the book, I was not expecting that and I learnt a lot. It was also interesting to read the British historical POV, which I did not know as much about.

This description of structural racism I thought was so accurate:

"Structural racism is dozens, or hundreds, or thousands of people with the same biases joining together to make up one organisation, and acting accordingly. Structural racism is an impenetrably white workplace culture set by those people, where anyone who falls outside of the culture must conform or face failure. Structural is often the only way to capture what goes unnoticed - the silently raised eyebrows, the implicit biases, snap judgments made on perceptions of competency.

This is what structural racism looks like. It is not just about personal prejudice, but the collective effect of bias. It is the kind of racism that has the power to drastically impact people’s life chances. It seems like Black people are disadvantaged at every step of their lives.”

- Reni Eddo-Lodge

It made me think of the intersection of race and neurotype, and how incredibly difficult it must be to be Black, a Person of Colour or Indigenous as well as Autistic and experience the multiplication of biases this would involve.