The Actually Autistic Guide

Préface

Media targets will include family and parenting media, such as Parents, Parenting, *Scary Mommy, *ADDitude; autism media, such as Autism Parent, The Spectrum, Spectrum Life, Autism Digest, Autism Advocate, Outfox Magazine, AuKids, Autism Eye; and mental health media, such as Psychology Today, Better Mental Health, Happiful, Mental Health Living, Healthline, *Verywell Health, *Medicine News Today, and Kevin MD. 
 **Color spreads from the book for excerpts: Media will have the opportunity to feature color spreads from the book that utilize the authors’ original artwork and activities. 
 Outreach to mental health and autism organizations such as NAMI, the National Autistic Society, and Speak for Autism, for promotion within their publications and events with the authors. 
 Trade media outreach: Outlets to include the likes of Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Booklist, and Shelf Awareness. 
 Targeted digital advertising with SEO keywords will reach people looking for autism education content, specialty workbooks, and who are part of the #actuallyautistic online community. 
 Tie-ins to Autism Awareness Month and gift giving: The book's April 1 publication date positions the book well for publicity around World Autism Awareness Day (April 2) and Autism Acceptance month (April). The book will be promoted again in gift roundups for the December holidays. 
 Social media marketing: Social media marketing on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok will use digital advertising and outreach to influencers in the parenting blog sphere and the #actuallyautistic community.

Auteur

Elora Dodd is a comedian, artist, and disability rights advocate whose TikTok and Instagram accounts, @online1roomschoolhouse, have more than seven hundred thousand followers combined and whose videos have accrued more than twenty-five million likes. A highly regarded voice in the autism community, particularly in the online autism community #actuallyautistic, Dodd's autism-related content is widely praised for having helped other autistics to attain diagnoses and helped their friends and family members to better understand the condition. Dodd is a born-and-raised Oklahoman.

C. R. R. Hillin is an educator, social worker, and the author of The Orphan's Code series and the Bloodthirst duology. After receiving their autism diagnosis in their midtwenties, Hillin became an advocate for improved autism education. Today Hillin is also the parent of an autistic child and a support for other parents of autistic children. They live in the Germany.

Texte du rabat

From leading autistic activists and witty content creators Elora Dodd, star of the popular social media account @online1roomschoolhouse, and educator C. R. R. Hillin comes a vibrant activity book that will guide readers through the challenges of life with autism and help foster pride in being neurodivergent. Globally an estimated 168 million people have autism, and yet resources for the community designed by those who truly understand the disorder first-hand are severely lacking. The result is a culture that stereotypes, underdiagnoses, and excludes neurodivergents, leaving them to make do in a hostile environment, and a society that misses out on all that their outside-the-box thinking could contribute. To combat this, The Actually Autistic Guide has been carefully crafted by autistics for autistics in order to enable community members to conquer daily challenges heads on. Authors Elora Dodd, whose social media account buzzing with anecdotes from her experiences as a neurodivergent has acquired more than seven hundred thousand followers, and her fellow activist C. R. R. Hillin, use their signature humor, creativity, and relatability to provide guidance acquired from their own experiences as well as from members of the #actuallyautistic online community. The result is a colorful, hands-on volume with: Tips and tricks for managing sensory issues, avoiding burnout, communicating with others, and so much more Dozens of original illustrations and details to delight and stimulate Coloring pages for zoning out or tuning in Activities and games Fascinating history and insight into the challenges faced by autistics and the progress being madeA perfect book for the neurodivergent mind, The Actually Autistic Guide is offers plenty to focus (and hyperfocus) on. It will allow readers a unique way to absorb content and start you on a journey of self-discovery, knowing that your ability to thrive is limitless.

Échantillon de lecture



 We hope this book
dies. 

 Both of us authors grew up
in a world where Autism resources were few and far between. We got used to
never being understood and just not getting help. We got used to feeling
broken. 

 Our hope is that this book
will help anyone reading it, Autistic or not, to better understand Autism, and
to give themselves grace to be different, even when it hurts. We hope this book
makes the world a kinder, safer place for Autistics. 

 What we hope for the most,
however, is that someday books like this won’t be needed anymore. We
hope someday people learn about Autism just like they learn about gender and
body types and personalities and all those other wonderful things that make
humans different from each other. We hope that someday Autism is accepted by default.
We hope that someday resources for Autistics will be so common that no one even
remembers this book, because so many much more fabulous books have been
written. 

 Maybe the next fabulous
book about Autism will be written by someone like you. 

 The journey to Autism
acceptance and Autism support is a long one, and we hope this book moves us
forward a bit. 

 But we aren’t
perfect. Autistics are an incredibly diverse bunch. We have done our best to
represent Autism accurately and perceptively, but we may have missed some
important points. Autism is far too complicated and beautiful to be explained
in just one book. We have done our very best, but you might do
better. 

 And that’s
wonderful. 

 If you notice an area we have
missed in this book that you think needs to be addressed, we encourage you to
write your own book. We need more books on Autism! You will have a perspective
we do not have, and we look forward to reading it. 

 We hope the world learns
all about Autism. We hope you tell your story. We hope so many people tell
their stories and add to the collective knowledge on Autism that this book
isn’t needed anymore. 

 We hope that someday, this
book dies. 

 But until then, we have
done our best. 

   

 About The
Insider’s Guide to Autism 

   

 Who wrote
this book? We did! Hi there! Our names are K. and Elora, and we
are two Autistic artists who filled this book with all the information about
Autism that we wish we had known earlier. Neither of us knew we were Autistic
until we were already adults. Once we found out, we had a lot of lost time to
make up for! We’ve spent the last few years learning everything we
can about Autism, and it has made our lives much better! We hope that by
sharing this information, we can make other people’s lives better
too. 

 Who is this
book for? This book has been written with Autistics in mind, but
anyone is welcome to read it! This book has two main types of pages:
information and activities. Information pages are full of information about
Autism. Activity pages are games, quizzes, worksheets, and coloring pages meant
to help Autistics better…