"We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation
This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It 8217 s also my love letter to autistic people. For too long, we have been forced to navigate a world where all the road signs are written in another language. 8221 With a reporter 8217 s eye and an insider 8217 s perspective, Eric Garcia shows what it 8217 s like to be autistic across America.Garcia began writing about autism because he was frustrated by the media 8217 s coverage of it the myths that the disorder is caused by vaccines, the narrow portrayals of autistic people as white men working in Silicon Valley. His own life as an autistic person didn 8217 t look anything like that. He is Latino, a graduate of the University of North Carolina, and works as a journalist covering politics in Washington D.C. Garcia realized he needed to put into writing what so many autistic people have been saying for years autism is a part of their
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