Book Review: How Can I Talk if My Lips Don’t Move? Inside My Autistic Mind

Summary:
Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay, a nonverbal man on the autism spectrum, gives insight into the autistic mind and how he thinks, sees, and reacts to the world.

Is it insightful?  4 Stars 
Provides good insight into how Tito views the world and the unique perspective in which he relates to everyday events. As example, he describes watching basketball and football like watching swarming ants. I wanted more analogies.

Is it creative?   3 Stars
There is poetry interspersed throughout some of the chapters which is meant to help underscore concepts. I found the poetry a distraction and not helpful at all to the book. 

Is the well written? 3 Stars
Read in about three hours. There was no logical progression of the chapters. One chapter he is in India, then he’s in Austin, then later in Hollywood. The author sometimes gave indication of how old he was, sometimes not. The book needed a good editor to scrub it.

Is it a page turner? 3 Stars
The longer I read the more I wanted the book to be over with. It read more like a random string of short stories. Even more disappointing is that it would not have been much work to sequence the chapters and make it read more chronologically.

Overall Rating:  3 Stars