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Lisa Masters is a single mother of two boys diagnosed with autism. She graduated from the Sate University of New York at Albany with a major in psychology. Lisa is an active participant in children’s charities that benefit children with autism and their families and advocates for the rights of children with disabilities. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her two boys.This is her first book.
Reviewed by Author Anna del C. Dye. for Readers' Favorite
Many children and adults are diagnosed with autism each year. Once this was surrounded by misconception; now, there is a possibility of understanding and perhaps helping individuals with autism.
It is with this desire that I chose this book, to see if I could learn or understand more about this disabling problem. My son worked with teens who have different spectrums of autism, and I have felt a bit intimidated by one of them. My son, on the other hand, enjoyed being with them.
Lisa did a great job of lightening the difficult road for those who love and care for such people. It is not an easy task. Yet, it is more difficult for those who don’t understand the problem than for those who deal with it day by day. Caregivers usually expect the unexpected and that is exactly what they get.
In many instances neither autistic people nor their caregivers think a particular situation is noteworthy. However, for those who are outside looking in these people or children often appear to be rude, boisterous, disobedient and many other poor adjectives that display our own erroneous thinking.
Like I said, this book focuses mostly on the mundane things that these children say and do. For caregivers, it will be of a great help to know that others go through the same things. Sometimes the people in the situation even tell you what to do about them. While working with an autistic child is not always easy, it helps to be able to understand and laugh at some of the situations and things the children say.
This book is not a book that will tell you who to see and how to get help for autistic people. Instead it will put a smile on your face and even lighten your day with the stories from these funny situations. I recommended it to anyone who cares or wants to know what autistic people do and say.
