This essential go-to guide gives you all the advice and tools you'll need to help you flourish and achieve what you want in life. From the answers to everyday questions such as 'Am I using appropriate body language?' and 'Did I say the wrong thing?', through to discussing the importance of understanding your emotions, looking after your physical and mental health and coping with anxiety and sensory overloads, award-winning neurodiversity campaigner Siena Castellon uses her own experiences to provide you with the skills to overcome any challenge.
With practical tips on friendships, dating, body image, consent and appearance, as well as how to survive school and bullying, The Spectrum Girl's Survival Guide gives you the power to embrace who you are, reminding you that even during the toughest of teen moments, you are never alone.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spectrum-Girls-Survival-Guide-Autistic/dp/178775183X
First, I want to thank Siena Castellon and The Nonfiction Book Awards for providing me with this book so I may bring you this review.
Siena Casellon is an incredible teenage girl who opens up and shares her amazing advice The Spectrum Girl’s Survival Guide: How To Grow Up Awesome and Autistic. Every teenage girl who has autism must read this book. Siena talks right to you girl to girl. You are not alone in this journey.
The cover graphic on this book is very powerful and positive in nature! The graphic designers did a great job catching the concept of the book. Kudos to them.
Siena wants to dedicate this book to all the awesome autistic girls around the world who dance to a different beat.
This book starts out with a foreword from Dr. Temple Grandin, author of Thinking in Pictures and The Autistic Brain.
I have read many acknowledgements in my book reviewing career. However, this one I could tell came straight from Siena’s heart and was very genuine. It made me smile knowing how proud she is of this book and all that helped her along the way.
If I have learned anything from this book is not to let your disability stop you from living your best life. Siena truly impressed me with all her accomplishments she achieved at only 16!
Siena is an incredible teenage girl who enjoys many typical things that teenage girls do (then again who doesn’t love watching Netflix, Chocolate, and Makeup?!) However, she is unique as she has autism, is dyslexic, has ADHD, and is dypraxic. Being a teenager with Autism there was not a book written that addressed the issues she addresses in this book. So, she decided to write a book specifically for her teens living with this. I commend her for writing this.
One thing I loved about Siena was how positive and upbeat she is! It was infectious!
Rebecca Burgess incorporates well drawn cartoons with captions that are meaningful to what Siena is talking about. I liked how the two of them worked together on this.
For someone who does not have autism (like me) but have met some people with this-this too is a great book for them. It opens your eyes to what they are feeling inside and how they react differently to things. For example they are sensitive to bright lights and smells. As am I but that is because I am a chronic migraine. But, I could totally understand their reaction to this. I have tried the orange tinted glasses and they do work.
I agreed with Siena when she stated it is sad we live in a world where they make little attempt to understand and accept autistic individuals. Having had friends with Autism in high school and baby sat for some kids that had it I found they are very sweet, smart, and extremely intelligent. Just like Siena seems like.
Siena brings up some very important topics in this book that relate to most teenage girls. Such as dating, crushes, bullying, etc. I was pleasantly surprised to see a section on transgender, gender identity and coming out. Someone her age to write such a grown up topic that many authors my age even talk about was impressive.
In the back of the book Siena gives you a list of important websites for you to look up. She also gives a list of recommended reading.
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