There was a lot of really great information in this book in learning how to support an autistic child and how they see the world, especially with autistic girls since it’s so different than autistic boys often.

My teenage daughter was just diagnosed with autism and I’ve been reading and researching everything I can to help her and learn how to better parent her with this new understanding of her brain differences.

The only real reason I dropped my rating is because there was just a lot of unnecessary discussion of gender fluidity in this, and often presented as a discussion of how to parent with (or live as an adult as) a non-binary or trans identity - rather than keep it specific to autism. The entire 27th chapter alone was completely about the person’s trans experience - not their autistic experience - who just happened to be diagnosed with autism. It felt like the book got derailed with a poor misdirection and loss of focus for what’s supposed to be specific to autism, what pertains to autism, the autistic perspective, and thriving with autism. Not sexual identification discussion.

It could have been a fantastic book if it just kept the singular focus of what it stated it was for.