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Sincerely, your autistic child what people on the autism spectrum wish their parents knew about growing up, acceptance, and identity

"In this book, autistic people of diverse racial, ethnic, educational, socioeconomic, and gender backgrounds talk about not just what we wish our own parents had known when we were growing up, but what we most want all parents to know about raising autistic kids today"--

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Other Authors: Ballou, Emily Paige, 1982- (Editor), daVanport, Sharon, 1964- (Editor), Onaiwu, MoreĢnike Giwa (Editor)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Autistic children.
Parents of autistic children.
Friendship in children.
Autism spectrum disorders.
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Summary:"In this book, autistic people of diverse racial, ethnic, educational, socioeconomic, and gender backgrounds talk about not just what we wish our own parents had known when we were growing up, but what we most want all parents to know about raising autistic kids today"--
Item Description:"Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network"--Title page.
Physical Description:xvi, 208 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-208).
ISBN:9780807025680
0807025682
Author Notes:Emily Paige Ballou is an autistic queer woman who lives in New York City, where she works as an off-Broadway stage manager of new plays and musicals. Sharon da Vanport is founder and executive director of the Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network (AWN), the nation's leading organization committed to furthering the neurodiversity movement with a commitment to disability and gender justice and trans liberation. Mornike Giwa Onaiwu, humanities scholar in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University, is a writer, an autistic educator of color, and an autism parent in a neurodiverse, serodifferent, multicultural adoptive family.

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