Name: The Asperkid's (secret) book of social rules
ISBN: 9781849059152

Jennifer Cook O'Toole

the handbook of not-so-obvious social guidelines for tweens and teens with Asperger syndrome

The Asperkid's (secret) book of social rules

Latitude Tamarind

Look, I was prepared to absolutely hate this book and rip it apart because ‘asperger’s’ is Out of Vogue, but they actually address it and talk about it (although not Directly, ie, we don’t use Asperger’s anymore because Mr. Asperger was a Nazi, just that it is a Problematic Thing). I really think that if it’s being re-released, they could go with a new title. The author is autistic, which follows “nothing for us without us” (vs Own Voices), which I really really appreciated. This is a great book to pull social advice from; while this book is aimed towards teenagers, I jotted down some useful rules. It’s really presented in a way where it’s like, here is a rule, and now here is a personal story where you can see what I did in this situation and apply it to your own life, or relate to it, etc. Written-down rules for social situations are much easier for me personally to follow, so I thought this was extremely helpful. Four stars; great book, bad title.

The Asperkid's (secret) book of social rules the handbook of not-so-obvious social guidelines for tweens and teens with Asperger syndrome

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