{"id":116012,"date":"2025-05-20T03:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T03:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/116012\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T03:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T03:21:12","slug":"normally-weird-and-weirdly-normal-by-robin-ince-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/116012\/","title":{"rendered":"Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal by Robin Ince review"},"content":{"rendered":"

The comedian Robin Ince was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 52. Suddenly, everything \u2013 his lifelong burble of anxiety, self-criticism, social discomfort and \u2018mad\u2019 racing thoughts \u2013 made sense. A burden had been lifted. It\u2019s OK to feel that way. It\u2019s normal, whatever \u2018normal\u2019 is.<\/p>\n

A wise, witty, thoughtful, comforting and compassionate book, Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My
Adventures in Neurodiversity traces the author\u2019s own story in sensitive tandem with a panoply of neurodiverse interviewees and academic research.<\/p>\n

Ince never generalises, but common themes include childhood trauma, PTSD, bullying, a searing sense of justice and \u2013 more light-heartedly, but it\u2019s all connected \u2013 a voracious passion for Doctor Who, horror films and accumulating a vast mountain of knowledge and \u2018stuff\u2019.<\/p>\n

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In his introduction, Ince declares (not at all seriously) that he will cure the reader of their anxiety. It\u2019s not a self-help book, he just hopes it helps. It does. It\u2019s a valuable piece of work.<\/p>\n

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Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity<\/a> by Robin Ince is out now (Macmillan, \u00a320). You can buy it from the\u00a0Big Issue shop<\/a>\u00a0on bookshop.org, which helps to support Big Issue and independent bookshops.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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