One percent of the population of children in the US aged 3-17 have an autism spectrum disorder. One in 59 newborns will be born with an autism spectrum disorder. Only 56 percent of students with autism finish high school. One million Americans live with an autism spectrum disorder.
My name is Trevor Pacelli. I was diagnosed with autism at age five. I am the first in my extended family to have autism. Growing up autistic has been difficult not only for me, but for my parents and my sister. We've all had to learn about autism and how to maintain a peaceful household. I deeply want other families with autistic children to learn from my experiences. This is why I wrote Six-Word Lessons on Growing Up Autistic.
In Six-Word Lessons on Growing Up Autistic, you will find 100 short, practical tips to help understand the autistic person in your life, told through insightful personal experiences by someone who has grown up autistic. Rather than pore through content, Six-Word Lessonson Growing Up Autistic gives them to you quickly and easily.
My hope is that you are able to use my experiences to help you with raising your autistic child, or relating to anyone you know who is living with autism.
Six-Word Lessons on Growing Up Autistic is a great resource for anyone wanting to learn more about autism spectrum disorder. It's most helpful for autism professionals, parents of children with autism, loved ones affected by autism, people with autism, and ASD professionals.
This is a fairly simple read, but as a mom of an autistic child it is packed with so much information. I took a lot of notes to reference later that I know really addressed some of the needs my son faces. This book was written by a young autistic man who has an incredible gift for expressing the complex feelings neurodivergent kids experience. The author really helped me understand some things simply by sharing how his brain processes thoughts and feelings and experiences. The authors explanations about the challenges an autistic child faces at school are spot on also.
this is the book my doctor recommend my family and i to read and to understand each other. i, as an autistic child now an adult, and my family. i had just gotten diagnosed even though i am now a sophomore in college. which was probably one of my first problems with the book. i didn't know this would more be purely geared towards my parents than me. a lot of these lessons I did have to learn for myself and i guess it'll now be nice for my parents to know and understand.
another problem is also that this is written by a white man with autism, meanwhile, i am white but i identify as nonbinary and was raised, female. there are many things that are probably not mentioned as lessons that are different for people who are autistic esp when they are of different genders. I also didn't really like how in the lessons the language of "he" or "she" often changed. when you really could just use "they".
some of these lessons did not relate to my experiences, which is fine, some of them also felt repeative. and some did not make any sense to me.
all in all, I hope to find better books in the future but maybe this will impact my parents more than it will impact me.
This is some okay information. It really should have been written on a webpage somewhere instead of a book. Each page is listed with a paragraph "lesson".
This should be read by everyone. I am not around autistic people on a daily basis but, like most people, I do meet them from time to time. Knowing how they feel will make those meetings much more comfortable for all.
Could serve as a good, quick read for people new to understanding autism or for a young, autistic person to learn about themselves. The author is on the spectrum, which provides an interesting insight into one person’s experiences.