as an autistic 15 (almost) year old, this book was amazing. for years, i was so confused on why people treated me like i was some sort of different species. how they called me odd, weird, or called me a crybaby because panicked when i couldn’t complete schoolwork. i only found out that i had autism when i was 11, but even then, i spent years not knowing about autism because i had only one autistic person i knew in my life, who’s nonverbal.

even though im not in their demographic (parents), this book taught me that what i do is *normal*. it really taught me about what autism actually was, and after reading this book i felt the happiest i ever felt in my own skin, and finally i felt accepted somewhere. 

even if you’re not a parent of an autistic child, i recommend this book for everyone who wishes to learn more about autism. ignore those shitty organisations like autism speaks, this is where it’s at.

thank you for publishing this book. thank you to everyone who wrote an essay. thank you to everyone that contributed. you quite literally changed my life /pos