How to Find a FourLeaf Clover, Jodi Rodgers
How to Find a FourLeaf Clover, Jodi Rodgers
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How to Find a Four-Leaf Clover
What Autism Can Teach Us About Difference, Connection, and Belonging

Author: Jodi Rodgers

Narrator: Jodi Rodgers

Unabridged: 9 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/20/2024


Synopsis

Beloved Love on the Spectrum star and disability rights advocate Jodi Rodgers shares stories from her expansive career working within the autistic community and calls for a more inclusive and accepting society.

In How to Find a Four-Leaf Clover, Jodi Rodgers gives us inspiring, heartwarming stories from her years of experience as a teacher and counselor supporting autistic people. While acknowledging our differences, these stories invite us to expand our empathy and compassion for the neurodivergent people in our lives. Throughout, Rodgers explores the powerful impact of embracing neurodiversity and forming meaningful connections with those around us. Each chapter highlights a different story and an aspect of human behavior, including:
  How we perceive the world, and our own unique experience of thinking, sensing, and feeling How we communicate our perspective to others, understand one another, and express ourselves How we can better connect with one another  
With dozens of moving stories, How to Find a Four-Leaf Clover will give readers a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the neurodiverse community around them. Above all, it will inspire a profound sense of belonging, revealing that we’re much more similar than we think.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader on April 21, 2024

Quick audio thoughts: Jodi Rodgers is a disability rights advocate, teacher, and counselor, sharing her knowledge about autism through personal experiences. Her role as an advocate shines through in how she relays her appreciation for the neurodiverse community to which she’s committed her life’s wo......more

Goodreads review by Maya on February 22, 2025

I absolutely adore this book and would recommend it to anyone! It’s so easy to read and the stories truly stuck with me and I’ll be telling them for a very long time :)......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on April 16, 2024

While I kind of wished this was more of an #ownvoices autism book, it does have some moving anecdotes of the author's time as a caregiver and her interactions with a diverse group of neurodivergent individuals over the course of her career. She does a good job illustrating how each autistic person's......more

Goodreads review by Courtney on April 15, 2024

5 stars How To Find Four Leaf Clovers is a Nonfiction book focusing on Autism Spectrum Disorder. This book is a positive and informative book that as a parent of an autistic child, I found it helpful and very heart warming. I loved the wide array of different topics: communication, anxiety, death, s......more

Goodreads review by Tess on December 03, 2024

This is one of the best books I've read this year. It was so heartwarming. I loved how each chapter was like a short story with neurotypical and neurodivergent tidbidts sprinkled in. Jodi is a great storyteller, and her ability to show us our connections to each other, whether neurotypical or neurod......more


Quotes

"An empathetic counselor with more than 30 years of experience, Jodi Rodgers enters the world of many individual autistic people. She will serve as your guide to their inner experiences. This book will provide greater acceptance and understanding."—Temple Grandin, author of Visual Thinking

“While reading Jodi’s stories, I was warmly and consistently reminded that different does not mean less than.”—Jory Fleming, author of How to Be Human

“We all know Jodi Rodgers from the fabulous TV show Love on the Spectrum. As a psychologist myself, I have been able to see on TV what an excellent clinician she is. It is no mystery why her autistic patients place their trust in her. They recognize that she is not just ‘assessing’ them; she is genuinely interested in them. In this marvelous book, Rodgers makes it clear that neurodivergent and neurotypical people all want the same things: love, security, and to be free of loneliness.”—Cathy Gildiner, author of Good Morning Monster

“We could all use a Jodi in our lives.”—New York Times

“Basing her conclusions on fine-grained observations of her clients, Rodgers illuminates the contours of the autistic brain and in the process makes a deeply felt case for the value of embracing others’ neurological particularities.”—Publishers Weekly