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365 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 18, 2026
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March 3, 2026
Woahh, who is this diva who wrote this… couldn’t possibly be me… Sorry y’all I know it’s like illegal for a director rate and put their own film in their letterboxd top four, and this feels illegal too, oopsies 🤭
January 24, 2026
Chat I am the first person to review this book here! And I am so honoured.
Now I don’t really write long reviews so this may be a bit of a mess I apologise.
I am 19 going on 20 in a few days and I feel like Craigson Palmer (the author) literally just took my life and wrote it down. When I was younger I felt different but I was diagnosed with anxiety since a young age so I always felt it was that then when I was ten I watched Atypical and I realised I was exactly like Sam. I worked up the courage to tell my dad that I think I may also be autistic and I did and he told me that girls don’t get autism… ok.
So I just sat with this feeling until I was fourteen and at the doctor and they said they think I had adhd out of nowhere after I was there to get my prescription or some shit. I was confused because I was under the impression that you had to be bouncing off the walls to have adhd and I wasn’t like that. But she told me that girls tend to be more talkative, forgetful, anxiety, shrugging to focus stuff like that. So I was put on the waiting list and it took nearly four years. I got on my adhd medication at seventeen and was so upset because I would’ve done so much better if I was on it during school and I was about to finish school.
During this time I was seeing a psychologist and in the first session he asks “are you diagnosed with autism?” I said “No why?” And he was like “You’re displaying all the traits.” And he started talking about getting diagnosed but it would be expensive and hard since I was about to turn eighteen and women were harder to diagnose. I just started crying because I had known at this point for nearly eight years and I wish I had spoken up earlier and made it easier. At my checkup appointment for my adhd meds I asked if they could also diagnose me with autism and they said that could only do adhd or autism… LIKE WHAT?!
So nearly 20 now and I don’t really mind not being diagnosed. All my feelings and boundaries are completely valid because that’s how I feel. Because you don’t suddenly become autistic or get adhd or get depression after being diagnosed it’s still there. It’s always been there. Some doctor telling you do or don’t have it isn’t going to change anything.
Anyway buy this book and read it!!! I read it in a day and it was incredible! Thank you Craigson!
Now I don’t really write long reviews so this may be a bit of a mess I apologise.
I am 19 going on 20 in a few days and I feel like Craigson Palmer (the author) literally just took my life and wrote it down. When I was younger I felt different but I was diagnosed with anxiety since a young age so I always felt it was that then when I was ten I watched Atypical and I realised I was exactly like Sam. I worked up the courage to tell my dad that I think I may also be autistic and I did and he told me that girls don’t get autism… ok.
So I just sat with this feeling until I was fourteen and at the doctor and they said they think I had adhd out of nowhere after I was there to get my prescription or some shit. I was confused because I was under the impression that you had to be bouncing off the walls to have adhd and I wasn’t like that. But she told me that girls tend to be more talkative, forgetful, anxiety, shrugging to focus stuff like that. So I was put on the waiting list and it took nearly four years. I got on my adhd medication at seventeen and was so upset because I would’ve done so much better if I was on it during school and I was about to finish school.
During this time I was seeing a psychologist and in the first session he asks “are you diagnosed with autism?” I said “No why?” And he was like “You’re displaying all the traits.” And he started talking about getting diagnosed but it would be expensive and hard since I was about to turn eighteen and women were harder to diagnose. I just started crying because I had known at this point for nearly eight years and I wish I had spoken up earlier and made it easier. At my checkup appointment for my adhd meds I asked if they could also diagnose me with autism and they said that could only do adhd or autism… LIKE WHAT?!
So nearly 20 now and I don’t really mind not being diagnosed. All my feelings and boundaries are completely valid because that’s how I feel. Because you don’t suddenly become autistic or get adhd or get depression after being diagnosed it’s still there. It’s always been there. Some doctor telling you do or don’t have it isn’t going to change anything.
Anyway buy this book and read it!!! I read it in a day and it was incredible! Thank you Craigson!
February 27, 2026
Broke me. How much I cried reading this. A very good effort from the author for his debut novel and initiative of spreading awareness. It had it's flaws and felt...abrupt? I just can't find a perfect word for it! Nevertheless, it was so heavy to read. I'll think about it a lot.
February 6, 2026
So beautiful! If you’re autistic and you feel alone, read this!! -an autistic teen girl
February 16, 2026
This absolutely destroyed me. It was relatable, it was raw, there were pockets of hope and then complete heartbreak. Not only an excellent read for us neurodivergent folk, but for neurotypicals to get a glimpse of what it can be like living with a brain not designed for and so often excluded from the world that we live in.
Craigson, you’ve written something really fantastic here. My only notes are to have this properly edited, because this could become a very important story to a lot of people.
And also the inclusion of watching Skins at an age that was far too young to be appropriate had me REELING, a canon event in my teenage life and many others’.
Craigson, you’ve written something really fantastic here. My only notes are to have this properly edited, because this could become a very important story to a lot of people.
And also the inclusion of watching Skins at an age that was far too young to be appropriate had me REELING, a canon event in my teenage life and many others’.
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