TY - BOOK AU - Gibbs,Sara TI - Drama Queen: one autistic woman and a life of unhelpful labels SN - 9781472274366 (pbk.) : AV - RC553.A88 G5 2022 U1 - 616.858820092 23 KW - Gibbs, Sara. KW - Autistic people KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - ukslc N1 - Originally published: 2021 N2 - During the first thirty years of her life, comedy script writer Sara Gibbs had been labelled a lot of things - a cry baby, a scaredy cat, a spoiled brat, a weirdo, a show off - but more than anything else, she'd been called a Drama Queen. No one understood her behaviour, her meltdowns or her intense emotions. She felt like everyone else knew a social secret that she hadn't been let in on; as if life was a party she hadn't been invited to. Why was everything so damn hard? Little did Sara know that, at the age of thirty, she would be given one more label that would change her life's trajectory forever. That one day, sitting next to her husband in a clinical psychologist's office, she would learn that she had never been a drama queen, or a weirdo, or a cry baby, but she had always been autistic ER -