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Handbooks
The Handbook of (Not-So-Obvious) Neurotypical Social Guidelines for Autistic Teens Jennifer Cook
new edition CoMing soon
The Asperkid’s (Secret) Book of Social Rules offers witty insights into baffling social codes such as making and keeping friends and common conversation pitfalls. Ideal for all 10–17 year olds on the autism spectrum, this book provides inside information on over thirty social rules helping teens to navigate the world around them.
– Rachel Bédard, PhD, licensed psychologist, co-editor of A Spectrum of Solutions for Clients with Autism
Jun 2022 | £13.99 | 10–17 yeArs | 288pp | pB | 45 B&W cArtOOns | isBn-9781787758377
Quotealicious
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“A person who is nice to you but is not nice to the waiter is not a nice person.”
“People cry, not because they’re weak, but because they have been strong for too long.”
Giving a second chance is smart. But giving a third chance is ridiculous. 1 2 3
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Broken Spaghetti The Benefits of Thinking Like a Wet Noodle
Laughing with You vs. Laughing at You 79
Need-to-Knows
You do the best with what you have and you only get better from there. Need-to-Knows • Leaders listen to others’ ideas and respect them. Their minds are “flexible,” like wet spaghetti.• Being a rigid thinker (“my way is the only right way”) is like being uncooked spaghetti. You break (or break down) when you’re asked to change. 102 103 • It can be hard to tell the difference between playful teasing, mean teasing and accidental hurts. • Aspies tend to take ourselves super-seriously. That’s not the But I Wasn’t Laughing Laughing with You vs. Laughing at You same as being “too sensitive.” • Ask yourself: Do I trust the person who is teasing me? Would they really want to hurt me? Perhaps we’re miscommunicating. Asperkid Logic I was six years old, I think. We were lined up in a row facing the mirrored wall and a bevy of visitors in folding chairs. It was Parents’ Observation Day at Skip Randall Dance School, and when the music began, we all did our best to show off our new tap routine. When we got to the part when we wagged our fingers and popped our hips like sassy little ladies, the whole audience giggled adoringly. “How cute!” they all laughed. Only I didn’t want to be cute and funny. We were supposed to look grown-up! I was insulted and embarrassed…and MAD. And I started crying. Later, my mom explained that the grown-ups weren’t laughing AT us, they had thought we were so precious that they were laughing WITH us.I looked her straight in the eye and said, “But I wasn’t laughing.” Fast-forward to middle school. I was on an overnight hotel trip with my dance company in New York City. Out of the dozen or so girls, I was the youngest by a few years. I was also the best dancer…something which hadn’t won me a lot of friends within the group.The morning of the dance competition, I got into the shower. A minute or two later, the bathroom door opened—and a huge bucket of ice water came raining down over the shower curtain onto my head. The door slammed, and shrieks of laughter echoed from the bedroom. Absolutely alone—and shivering—I sat down on the tiles. I decided not to say a thing about it until I saw my
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The Spectrum Girl’s Survival Guide
How to Grow Up Awesome and Autistic Siena Castellon
Foreword by Temple Grandin
Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards - Silver Medal Winner Nautilus Silver Book Award Winner Purple Dragonfly Book Awards - First Place
This essential go-to guide gives you all the advice and tools you’ll need to help you flourish and achieve what you want in life. From the answers to everyday questions such as ‘Am I using appropriate body language?’ and ‘Did I say the wrong thing?’, through to discussing the importance of understanding your emotions, looking after your physical and mental health and coping with anxiety and sensory overloads, award-winning neurodiversity campaigner Siena Castellon uses her own experiences to provide you with the skills to overcome any challenge.
With practical tips on friendships, dating, body image, consent and appearance, as well as how to survive school and bullying, The Spectrum Girl’s Survival Guide gives you the power to embrace who you are, reminding you that even during the toughest of teen moments, you are never alone.
– Sarah Wild, Headteacher, Limpsfield Grange School
mAr 2020 | £12.99 | 12–18 yeArs | 256pp | pB | 16 B&W cArtOOns | isBn-9781787751835
The Autism Detective
Investigating What Autism Means to You Elaine Brownless
Illustrated by Mai-Ann Burns
Interactive children’s book that enlists you to join detectives in their autism investigation
mAy 2021 | £12.99 | 7–12 yeArs | 48pp | HB | 32 cOlOur illustrAtiOns | isBn-9781787753044
My Autism Book
A Child’s Guide to their Autism Spectrum Diagnosis Glòria Durà-Vilà and Tamar Levi
Beautifully illustrated picture book to help parents to explain an autism diagnosis to their child in a sensitive, positive and accurate way
dec 2013 | £10.99 | 5–9 yeArs | 48pp | HB | 38 cOlOur | rigHts sOld: indOnesiAn | isBn-9781849054386
