Published in 2024
176 pages
Charlotte Amelia Poe is an award-winning author. In 2018 they won the Spectrum Art Award and they have since published the best-selling memoir How to be Autistic.
What is this book about?
How does autistic trauma really feel, and how can you find your way through it to a warmer, brighter place?
Written by best-selling author Charlotte Amelia Poe this is a poignant and whimsical exploration of the true autistic experience. Chapter-by-chapter, Poe delicately peels back the layers of what it is to be young and autistic in the modern world, touching on trauma, grief, mortality, love and everything in between.
Charming, thought-provoking and often very funny, this book doesn’t offer solutions – it walks next to you, like a friend, through times both dark and light. It reminds you every step that you’re not alone.
A beautiful and whimsical exploration of the autistic experience of grief, trauma and mortality, and the role that creativity can have in finding a way through it all.
