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Sol Smith
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in Waco, Texas, The United States
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December 2008
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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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2014
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3 editions
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The ADHDer’s Guide to Self-Discovery: Thriving with Your High-Energy Mind
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The Ghosts of San Francisco Bay (California Dreadfuls Book 1)
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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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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
This is my fifth time through this book. I’m always a little worried that I’m going to read it now and it will have aged poorly in my esteem. I’m not here to tell you “Moby Dick” will change your life, but I would ...more "
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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
“They’ll explain why you can’t be autistic by producing the very evidence you would use to prove that you are — how smart you are, how social you are, your expert and intense eye contact, your terrific grades and amazing knowledge about niche subjects, your charm during social events. All things that were hard-fought parts of your masked identity.”
― 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