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A review by jakegreyxx
What I Want To Talk About: How Autistic Interests Shape A Life by Pete Wharmby
4.0
Exactly as the title suggests, this book is all about autistic special interests. But it’s also a lot more than that.
Each chapter focuses on a different special interest the author has had, how they came about, how they affected his life, how they grew and changed, and some fun little facts about them.
But it also talks about what it’s like to be autistic, and how some of these interests specifically relate to autistic people. It talks about how special interests are important for autistic people, and how they can be an incredibly helpful tool. There are also patches that talk about and explain how different things in life, such as family or social events, can affect autistic people. What these things can be life, feel like, and the individual problems they can bring with them.
There’s definitely a lot of excited rambling (which is to be expected, really, in a book about autistic special interests), but if you’re willing and patient enough to read through those, there are also a lot of bits in this book that are incredibly informative and important for anyone looking to understand autistic people better.
The only issue I found with this book was that some of the sentences ran on a bit too much. Run-on sentences are great, but there’s a point where you need to accept that maybe it shouldn’t be a single sentence. Sometimes a single sentence would start in one place, mention several different points and last almost half a page before finally returning to the main point, which, by then, you’re struggling to understand.
Each chapter focuses on a different special interest the author has had, how they came about, how they affected his life, how they grew and changed, and some fun little facts about them.
But it also talks about what it’s like to be autistic, and how some of these interests specifically relate to autistic people. It talks about how special interests are important for autistic people, and how they can be an incredibly helpful tool. There are also patches that talk about and explain how different things in life, such as family or social events, can affect autistic people. What these things can be life, feel like, and the individual problems they can bring with them.
There’s definitely a lot of excited rambling (which is to be expected, really, in a book about autistic special interests), but if you’re willing and patient enough to read through those, there are also a lot of bits in this book that are incredibly informative and important for anyone looking to understand autistic people better.
The only issue I found with this book was that some of the sentences ran on a bit too much. Run-on sentences are great, but there’s a point where you need to accept that maybe it shouldn’t be a single sentence. Sometimes a single sentence would start in one place, mention several different points and last almost half a page before finally returning to the main point, which, by then, you’re struggling to understand.