Emily's poetry is beautiful. Even though I am a verbal autstic, the poems Emily wrote reflect my inner world so acciraltely. This book is amazing. Emily's parents are amazing. I'm so glad more books are coming out about non verbal autistics. Presume competence always. Understand most of the behavior problems are because they can't be properly understood. Learn their communication style and adapt to that. Amazing, amazing book.

Underestimated: An Autism Miracle by J. B. Handley

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3.75

The subtitle of the book really offended me. As an autistic person it really offended me that the dad in this case thought learning his autistic son's communication style was a miracle. Let me tell you this, his son also gets upset with that as well. Let that make you feel better about reading this book, and DO read it. Despite the fact that the dad starts the book off as an offensive to actually autistic father who believes his son has 'real autism' as opposed to all us speaking autistics, and he needs to cure his son of it, the books journey does take him out of his ignorance and ends up listening to no speaking autistic voices, and an enlightenment of the dad on the unhelpfullness of ABA. Highly recommend this book for anyone who has or knows a non speaking autstic.

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