let's get something out of the way. Would this book have helped me when I was younger and struggling with who I were? Yes. I would have been able to pull hope and reassurance from this, an explanation of why everything seemed wrong in a time i could not accept myself. However, it would also have confused me. Remembering myself as the confused child I was, a lot of the terms here would have left me only more confused. I would have needed more explanation, apart from just statements, and I feel like that may be this books downfall. 
It does not seem to know what it wants to be, a beacon of explanation and information? If that is the case, I would have loved to see the authors dive into that more, truly explain what is going on, but that leaves wanting. Does it want to be a self help book? it gives exercises and thoughts that could indicate this, but it never commits to this either. it is possible to combine these two concepts, but not in a book as short as this. 

I don't want to rag on this book too much because it clearly tries hard to cover its grounds, and it does a decent job, but something else I want to bring up is that it falls into some traps that books written by adults for bullied/critisised youths tend to fall in. The examples it gives are fine, but if this was me, an autistic person to booth, would try to follow the advice on what to say when someone is disrespectful, the examples given would leave me with a massive "now what" situation, that I would not have been equipped to deal with at the time (and would still struggle to, to be honest!). 

Regardless of this, I think this is the kind of book any library ought to have. A resource for those struggling to find their footing in the world. It plays that job well, and this is something we desperately need more off. I commend this book for that, and will recommend it too.