While the content and premise of this book is good, I struggled to finished it due to the casual and conversational tone. Personally, I prefer when a book is making an argument that the author stand strong in their assertions, but I almost felt like Wise was trying to convince themselves of their argument. I have some background knowledge on neurodiversity and variability, so my goal in reading this book was to hear another perspective of something I already agree with, but if I didn't have that background, I am not sure I would have found this book to be compelling. This is a good introduction to the concepts of neurodiversity and variability, but I was hoping for a bit more in depth analysis.

Wise does integrate citations that could be used for further reading and I appreciated that they incorporated a diversity of perspectives through first hand accounts and quotes. I did feel like the quotes and citations were sometimes disjointed from Wise's content. Of course, this type of writing requires the author to research their topic, but there were times that I felt Wise's research was awkwardly inserted into the text without Wise's synthesis, which then causes me to wonder what is the point of me reading their book rather than just going to their source material?