What I Want to Talk About
How Autistic Special Interests Shape a Life

There are a lot of books about autism. Not enough by far of those are written by autistic adults, and even less are about adults. This is the kind of book we all really, really need. I noticed myself nodding and humming at about everything I read. From having a stim that is not often recognized (for......more

This book feels so safe. It’s one of the best I’ve read in a while. It is written so circularly - the way that I think and have conversations - jumping between connections while keeping the thread and returning to the ultimate point in a way you never expect at the beginning. It includes all the det......more

I always struggle to finish autistic memoirs; it's difficult, as an autistic parent of autistic teens, and a former autistic child (with an undiagnosed autistic mom) to read about another Neurodivergent person's lifelong trauma and pain. It's incredibly easy to reopen old wounds when reading about o......more