I requested this book not knowing what is was getting myself into, I thought this was going to be a 200 page book about autism from the medical perspective or I don’t know. I just wasn’t expecting this. I finished the book and although it wasn’t what I thought I was going to get I was extremely happy that is requested the book. I adored it.
In this book we basically get a comparison between how a non-autistic person views the world and receives information vs how an autistic person receives it. The author is a 50 years old man who was diagnosed with autism when he was is his 40´s.
Like is said, this book was everything I didn’t know I was looking for. This book is short, it is more like a pamphlet of the basic things you need to know about autism, it is short and simply to understand and it will eventually make you smile. I adored this book and I think everyone should read it, it is to the point (it won’t take you more than 1 hour to read it) and it has the basic information we must all know in order to have empathy towards those who are different from us.
The two things I like the most about the book are: 1) there is no self-pity or anger towards the reader, the author just wants to show us how he sees the world, he is not trying to say which is better, he just says “you think this way and I think this way and it is okay that it is different”. The author just wants to educate us, he wants us to make us see things from his point of view so that we can have empathy towards those who are different from us. 2) The ending. The ending was by far my favorite part of the book. The way the author apologizes and asks for patience from all of us broke me. He is trying to tell us, I am here, I am human I am different but I still function and I am just as valuable.
I immensely appreciated this book and if you have time please try to read it because I think this is an essential read.
Thank you to the publisher and the author for allowing me to read this book in exchange for an honest review.
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