Asperger’s Rules!: How to Make Sense of School and Friends

Ugh, this is awful and out touch. It was hard for me to tell who the intended audience was, but then it became clear that it was for middle schoolers. Several mentions of looking in the eye/eye contacts about six times.

Poor examples, text dense, large gaps in advice, bad examples, clunky writing, and layout that could be vastly improved.

Author mentions weird things like mercury thermometers, gory movies, and recommends ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' by Mark Haddon - which is a book that I enjoyed, but I believe is a little tone deaf as I think in that book the main character's parents are divorcing due to his diagnosis, also I read this in high school and I don't think this is appropriate for the average 12 year old.

This book also didn't make a lot of sense to me because if one has a diagnosis I assume that they'd have an IEP or a parent that would talk to teachers. Although, I did appreciate the idea of giving kids autonomy and tools.

No mention of puberty.

I also feel that it should be noted that although Blythe Grossberg had Psy D. after her name her degree is in organizational psychology. She also seems to have mostly worked in private schools which might also explain some of the disconnect.

It was so weird to me that she kept talking about bring video games to school or sharing food, both things that are not allowed at the middle schools that I have worked.