House Rules: the powerful must-read story of a mother's unthinkable choice by the number one bestselling author of A Spark of Light

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It was the first time I got to see the spray wax used for taking a footprint cast on snow, a definite highlight. I would heartily recommend this to most autistic readers, with the only caveat being that it could be triggering for anyone who has had negative experiences with the police and/or justice system. He's always quoting song lyrics and lines from movies because it helps to calm him or gives him something to say when he doesn't know an appropriate response.

He's always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do.He doesn’t have a driver’s license, although we argue about it regularly, since he’s eighteen and was eligible to get his license two years ago.

For example, in countries with low vaccination rates, the number of measles cases have risen – a disease we’ve nearly eradicated in the US. I felt that Picoult did her homework, and that she presented the traits, and possible causality, fairly and honestly.The teacher made a popular boy wear fake glasses so I’d have someone to connect with, but as it turned out, he didn’t really want to talk about whether archaeopteryx should be categorized as a prehistoric bird or a dinosaur. He was six feet tall and 200 pounds, but profoundly autistic – and the smallest things would set him off in frustration, since he couldn’t tell us what he wanted or needed. Although there are many overlaps with other autistic conditions, people with AS generally have fewer problems with speaking, fewer learning disabilities associated with autism, and are often of average, or above average, intelligence.

We laughed about the way our science teacher’s pants were hemmed two inches too short, and sat together in the café at lunch. It is well-written from a literary standpoint, and is an important window into the minds of neurotypicals, and how they perceive us as autistics.I can’t look at a patch of sod and tell you there are six thousand, four hundred and forty-six individual blades of grass. I think that’s what made me stop the first time – I mean, who the hell has a turret on their house, besides Rapunzel? Five novels have been made into movies and BETWEEN THE LINES (co-written with daughter Samantha van Leer) has been adapted as a musical.

Painfully obvious and predictable and filled with so much repetitive exposition about Asperger's Syndrome that it ultimately made me feel like i was being lectured by someone who has it and would not take the hint that I understood them the first time and get the freaking point okay?

Much of Asperger’s work was lost in a bomb attack towards the end of the Second World War and what survived remained untranslated by the English-speaking world until long after his death in 1980. I’d like to believe that if someone had read this years ago, and then had witnessed my cousin’s meltdown, my aunt wouldn’t have felt shame…but rather, compassion.