![]() ![]() She writes: ‘I wanted to show the side of autism that I have lived through, the side you don’t find in books and on Facebook groups. How To Be Autistic challenges narratives of autism as something to be ‘fixed’, as Poe believes her autism is a fundamental aspect of her work. ![]() ![]() For an autistic person, they will find that they are having to use back roads and cut across fields and explore places neurotypicals would never even imagine visiting’. If a neurotypical person wants to get from A to B, then they will most often find their way unobstructed, without road works or diversions. Poe writes about her memoir: ‘The best way to describe it is to imagine a road trip. How To Be Autistic charts Charlotte Amelia Poe’s journey through schooldays and young adulthood, with chapters on food, fandom, depression, body piercing, comic conventions, and technology. ![]()
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