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emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
becsbookshelf's review
5.0
“To misquote from the beloved 1990s movie 10 Things I Hate About You … “Autistic people can supposedly be ‘high functioning’ , and they can be ‘low functioning’, but can anyone every be ‘medium functioning’?”
Through the wonderful writing of Kerr we are presented with the navigation of love for neurodivergent people and the challenges that they faced. For a neurodivergent person love has its struggles, highs, lows and heartbreak and for some they are lucky to find companionship.
The book is broken up into five components and in each chapter we hear from five incredible and neurodivergent people, Michel who was on the hit show Love on the Spectrum, Chloe who was a math prodigy and had too many feelings, Noor who battled though people pleasing and social and religious traditions, Jess who spent her life being put into boxes and never finding her box until she built it for herself and Tim a non speaking autistic man who has been misunderstood and mistreated his whole life.
I highly recommend picking up a copy, I didn’t want this book to end, it was so eye opening to see the world and love from each persons perspective. I loved Kerr’s writing style and this book very raw and vulnerable, Kay, Michael, Chloe, Noor, Jess and Tim’s stories are all so different yet face very similar journeys of hardships, frustration, hope and connection.
Thank you for sharing this book with the world @kaykerr_ and congratulations!
Through the wonderful writing of Kerr we are presented with the navigation of love for neurodivergent people and the challenges that they faced. For a neurodivergent person love has its struggles, highs, lows and heartbreak and for some they are lucky to find companionship.
The book is broken up into five components and in each chapter we hear from five incredible and neurodivergent people, Michel who was on the hit show Love on the Spectrum, Chloe who was a math prodigy and had too many feelings, Noor who battled though people pleasing and social and religious traditions, Jess who spent her life being put into boxes and never finding her box until she built it for herself and Tim a non speaking autistic man who has been misunderstood and mistreated his whole life.
I highly recommend picking up a copy, I didn’t want this book to end, it was so eye opening to see the world and love from each persons perspective. I loved Kerr’s writing style and this book very raw and vulnerable, Kay, Michael, Chloe, Noor, Jess and Tim’s stories are all so different yet face very similar journeys of hardships, frustration, hope and connection.
Thank you for sharing this book with the world @kaykerr_ and congratulations!
o3tri's review
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
4.75
Reading this was a very valuable experience for understanding myself better and making me feel hopeful and motivated in organizing my life with my needs in mind and in the way that makes most sense for me. I'm also very glad that different autistic perspectives and lives were featured. I do wish it went a bit more in depth in some areas, the book wasn't what I expected it to be but I still got a lot of value from reading it.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Homophobia, Ableism, Cancer, Alcoholism, Animal death, and Domestic abuse