Can You See Me?: A powerful story of autism, empathy and kindness

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However, we are now a little further down the road and I suppose I am more accepting and more than ready to understand my daughter in any way I can. Perfect for fans of Wonder and The Goldfish Boy, this sucker punch to the heart is valuable reading for children and adults alike.

While I didn't relate to all of Tally's traits--it seemed to me in a few parts that she might fit the criteria for something else as well, perhaps OCD--the portrayal of what it feels like to have a meltdown is one of the most insightful I've seen. Based on my life experience, I have a hard time with the message that someone has to accept everything about their condition as inevitable and unchanging.Having a grandson that is only 5 and just starting main stream school as an autistic young man, this helped me to recognize his behaviors and appreciate how brilliant he is. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I’ve read plenty of coming of age stories and I am sure everyone can relate to the confusion of becoming a teenager and everyone trying to fit in.

New people, new routines, bells, shouting, clusters and communes of people, and whole realms of expectations. We sympathise with the misunderstanding of expressions such as ‘in a couple of minutes’, and the complete confusion of lying.

The masking she refers to doing at school has been a lifelong struggle and is something I’ve had to push into almost every bubble of my life. These books aimed at 11-13 year olds contain themes around friendships and overcoming a variety of challenges, as well as starting at a new school. I bought this for my 12 year old autistic daughter so that she could feel like som comradeship, and like she’s not the only one going through some of the things she goes through, but she’s in love with graphic novels right now and there are “too many words and not enough pictures” for her right now. A coming-of-age story about learning to celebrate yourself -- and teaching the world to recognize you, too -- perfect for fans of R.

Decent as an autism portrayal, enough so that I'm planning to read the sequel, but not a first-choice recommendation for a MG book in general. Previous Talking to Alaska by Anna Waltz Next The Fantastic Book of Feelings: A Guide to Being Happy, Sad and Everything In-Between! Tally isn't ashamed of being autistic -- even if it complicates life sometimes, it's part of who she is.It means she finds it hard to follow instructions from her family as being asked to do something makes her anxious.

Tally knows she’s different: she’s autistic, meaning she sees and feels everything differently to her friends and family. I started to read this last year but had to stop as it was all too near to the bone: we were filling in a 19 page form about one of my daughters to start the assessment process. Tally clearly explains to the reader the state that she gets in, showing that she is not acting out for selfish reasons, but is suffering tremendously and cannot contain herself. I didn't care for the narrative writing style, because it was often detached and dry, and when parts of the book went on and on without advancing the plot or characters significantly, I sometimes skimmed ahead to the next engaging action. When they are going to the fair Tally's dad asks her to come with him, but this means Tally feels stressed and can't follow the request even though she wants to go to the fair.I'm looking forward to my daughter learning to read better as I will be saving this for her and I think she will really enjoy this and can relate so much.