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Category: book review

Cover of the book A Kind of Spark. It has a dark blue background. The profile of a girl with long wavy hair and closed eyes takes up most of the space. She is wearing white ear defenders in an explosion shape with sparks around the edge. Inside that shape is the title of the book A Kind of Spark in yellow to purple vertical gradient colors. Lower on the page between two locks of hair is orange text reading, "Being different doesn't mean your voice doesn't count." Even lower between two more tresses is the name of the author, Elle McNicoll.
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Autism in Fiction: Reviewing A Kind of Spark, by Elle McNicoll

Posted on February 23, 2023February 26, 2023 by Meg Eden Kuyatt

Reading A Kind of Spark, I felt a part of myself represented and explained on the page that I’d never seen anywhere else before. I feel so much for Addie, the 12-year-old autistic main character: How she puts herself in the historical stories of witches, and how the injustice of their history upsets her, while others seem detached.

Book cover with a black background, with silhouettes of people of all sizes and a dog, in a rainbow of colors. Rainbow-colored text  at the top reads, "Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life and Autism."
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Knowing Why Is Everything: An Interview With Editor Elizabeth Bartmess on Adult-Diagnosed Autistic Perspectives

Posted on November 2, 2018September 13, 2022 by Sarah Kurchak

Knowing Why is a valuable resource for anyone who has been through the process of being diagnosed or self-diagnosed as autistic in adulthood, anyone who wants to better understand us, and anyone who might be wondering if they might be autistic themselves.

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