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NEW BOOK ABOUT AUTISM BY AN AUTHOR ON THE SPECTRUM
07 Feb 2022
It’s encouraging to see more and more resources that present autism from an insider’s perspective. 14-year-old Libby Scott has released her third work of fiction: Ways to Be Me. Like her first two books, this was co-authored with Rebecca Westcott. All three books are about a fictitious character called Tally, a young girl who is autistic.
Since Libby’s own diagnosis, she has been keen to share her experience to raise awareness of neurodiversity and support other people, especially girls and their parents. When a short piece of her writing was posted online by her mother years ago, thousands of people said that it had helped them understand autism for the first time.
“It was mainly the feeling that I was somehow different to everyone else and I just didn’t know why,” says Libby. “When somebody’s diagnosed it’s nothing to be afraid of, you are just the same as before but now you know why.”