Can You See Me?: A powerful story of autism, empathy and kindness

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New people, new routines, bells, shouting, clusters and communes of people, and whole realms of expectations. However, we are now a little further down the road and I suppose I am more accepting and more than ready to understand my daughter in any way I can. This book is a combination of present-tense, third-person prose and short diary entries from the perspective of Tally, the autistic main character. If you’re a parent of an autistic child it’ll give you a few extra insights, but if you’re a teacher, grandparent, aunt, uncle, bus driver.

This book would be excellent for Year 6 to teach about inclusion and transition, along with autistic children themselves who may feel isolated and alone, just like Tally.Her mum is an early years consultant, trainer and conference speaker who previously worked for the London Borough of Lewisham as a School Improvement Advisor for Early Years and a Strategic Lead for Early Years. Still, I have mixed feelings about aspects of this, since I know from my own experience that I can have a unique and different brain with all of the "pros" that Tally listed in her diary, without all of the "cons" staying at their worst forever.

It made me feel seen, and it contributed to my reflections about what life was like for me at twelve years old and how profoundly grateful I am that things are completely different now. Rebecca currently teaches in a primary school and lives in Dorset with her husband and three children. Your words, like your reviews, bring books to life and give them a voice before the front cover is even turned.Her experiences are drawn from the life of this book's young coauthor, and these contributions give a very realistic flavor to the story, both in terms of the autism experience and the thoughts and feelings of a child beginning middle school. I was terrified that I would never be able to go back to being the happy, comparatively normal child that I had once been, and feared that I was going to stay trapped in an internal volcanic explosion until I died. It was very well written, and knowing that it was co-authored by a young girl with autism who based the main character off of herself gave it some extra gravitas for sure.