Kat Whetstone: Hiding on Thin Ice, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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In this debut from Substack's Hockey in Heels founder Kat Whetstone, a woman offers a reckoning with her complex past in order to heal.

When hockey journalist Kat Whetstone was diagnosed with autism at the age of twenty-one, she was stunned, devastated, and relieved all at once, after decades of hiding. Like many of the eighty-percent of autistic women who aren't diagnosed until adulthood, it took her near-death and spiraling out of control in order to receive a diagnosis. But that was just the beginning. As a child, Kat grew up in a nondenominational, evangelical church in rural North Carolina, being told she was "too much". Pastors, her family, and her peers attempted to "fix" her. Quickly, she learned to mask her autism, with therapists diagnosing her with social anxiety, mood disorders, depression, and eating disorders. As she got older, she found herself trapped in the rabbit hole of abusive relationships, PTSD, alcohol addiction, victim-blaming, and a patriarchal culture that keeps women quiet; alongside success as a hockey journalist, becoming one of the youngest women to cover the National Hockey League.

Hiding on Thin Ice is a fiercely honest, authentic memoir that embraces differences and gives one woman her voice back - after a lifetime of being silent.