
How to Save Your Own Life: Autism, Eating Disorders and the Hope That Saves Us with Rachel Clark
This Voice is Mine: the Unquiet PodcastShow Notes
Rachel Clark was seventeen when she wrote her debut book, How to Save Your Own Life. In this episode of This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast, Rachel talks to Dr Emma Offord about growing up as an undiagnosed autistic girl, the years she spent internalising difference as personal failure, and the eating disorder that became the only way she felt she could be heard. Rachel speaks openly about situational mutism, about a treatment system that wasn't built for her brain, and about the nurse wh...
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