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Sol’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sol’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Sol Smith’s Followers (94)
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Sol Smith
Goodreads Author
Born
in Waco, Texas, The United States
Website
Genre
Influences
Member Since
December 2008
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/solsmith
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The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
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Travels with Charlie
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2014
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6 editions
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The Traveler
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2008
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10 editions
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Escondido's Lady in White (California Dreadfuls #3)
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2015
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3 editions
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Sight
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2012
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3 editions
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Love Notes Scribbled on My iPhone
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Danger at Donner Pass (California Dreadfuls Book 2)
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published
2014
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3 editions
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The Ghosts of San Francisco Bay (California Dreadfuls Book 1)
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published
2014
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3 editions
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The Demons of Angel Camp (California Dreadfuls Book 4)
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2015
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4 editions
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Travels with Charlie Free!
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Sol’s Recent Updates
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Sol Smith
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Wesley Jobe's review
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The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult:
"Incredible author! So well articulated and balanced for listening in audiobook form especially. Lots of anecdotes from their personal self discovery process, and examples from work with clients. Humourous at times, that helps lighten and break up the"
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Tabitha Kluka's review
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The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult:
"This book felt like a comforting conversation with a good friend. I felt so understood and loved. My recent AuDHD diagnosis, while a comforting aknowledgement of my lifelong struggles, has also turned my world a bit upside-down. Sol Smith helped me t"
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Sol Smith
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Leigh Ann's review
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The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult:
"I am so thankful for this book. I feel seen and validated. It was digestible and had some great tips. I am also so grateful that he covered PDA!! My son has this diagnosis and it has been so hard to advocate for him since it is so unknown. Thank you "
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Angela's review
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The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult:
"Very helpful book for both feeling seen and understood, as well as strategies to use moving forward.
The only critique I have is that early on Smith notes that self diagnosis is considered valid in the Autistic community so long as you've done "the wo" Read more of this review » |
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“The normal pipeline for an adult autistic is being overwhelmed, tired, then reaching burnout, depression, and guilt. But change is possible. These are systemic problems that we encounter, and the solutions we bring are going to be individual. Autistic people are wildly diverse, and what strengths you have won’t look like someone else’s.”
― The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
― The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
“Maybe the most surprising thing is that the proficiency of so many autism experts ends at diagnosis. Once that diagnosis is made, especially for adults, the expert’s job is over, and they have no idea how to guide you in handling that information.”
― The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
― The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
“If coming out as autistic as an adult is hard, it’s only because of the resistance of those around you. It doesn’t change the actual challenges you have in your job, your relationships, or your perception. Which is just such a perfect fact because the challenges you’ve always faced haven’t been due to the autism either — not really. They’ve been due to the way the world has been structured based on neurotypical thinking and socialization. In most cases, autism is a social disability, not a medical one.”
― The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
― The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
“That curtain never came. The end credits should have run, but the days kept on happening, my alarm kept going off, and new challenges kept popping up. Furthermore, I had a sense that this “I finally did all the things, give me my American Dream award” moment wasn’t the final, dramatic crescendo of an orchestrated symphony. I knew this because I was a fake.”
― The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
― The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
“Now in my forties, often I look around a room of adults and wonder how many others are faking it. If so, who are we playacting for? Who would be offended if we didn’t wear the right clothes? Which person sees themselves as an actual grown-up, would judge our handshake, comment sincerely on a wine, and expect a sense of achievement and pride to blossom within them for proving their adulthood? Who is motivated by power, believes that money is real, and insists the social structure is a meritocracy that sprouted from the ground when George Washington chopped down a cherry tree to ratify the New Deal at Gettysburg, accompanied by his Rough Riders? Which people are we trying to fit in for? In any given room, it could be everyone but me, or it could be no one.”
― The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
― The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
“A game began so long ago that we forgot it was a game at all. We can only see the game and its rules. We can’t see the room where we are playing, nor can we stop playing. Everyone is born into it. We spend the first few years learning the rules, and we know that to win the game, we must become an amorphous, perfect person. If we just follow the right steps, read the right things, and behave in the right ways, we’re certain to become this person. We’ve built pipelines and institutions to encourage this, complete with pre- made goals, graded feedback, moral guidance, an armory of cosmetic solutions, and anything else you can imagine. We are all-in, dead-set on this belief that we can and will become the perfect person. Even though no one has done this before. Ever. It has never happened.”
― The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
― The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
