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Motherness: A Memoir of Generational Autism, Parenthood, and Radical Acceptance

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.


CBC recently included Motherness in its list of books to read this fall.


Motherness is now available to purchase from retailers in the US and Canada - and is available for preorder in the UK. 

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Motherness will be released in audiobook format by Podium Entertainment on 21 October 2025 and is now available for preorder. 


Written by Julie M. Green
Performed by Larissa Thompson

Genre: Nonfiction

Released: October 21, 2025

Language: English

Format: Single Narration

Duration: 9 hr, 20 min

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