Letters To My Weird Sisters book launch

Watch Joanne Limburg in conversation with Jill Abram about her new book Letters To My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism.
'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.
Joanne Limburg is the author of two memoirs, one novel, and three collections of poetry. She lectures at Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education and lives in Cambridge with her husband and son.