... a testament to Brady’s quality of said character, her tenacity in the face of a world not yet ready to grapple with all she brings to it. Her memoir is not a journey of self-improvement: There is no concrete, happy ending outside of her eventual diagnosis..

Nobody is spared in this brutal, funny and heartbreaking memoir about growing up with undiagnosed autism.

While detailing a life as a perpetual outsider in an unsympathetic world could have allowed her to wallow in self-pity, Brady manages to plot a course between the drama of repeated brutal encounters and her inner thoughts with a mixture of excruciating honesty and dark humour.

Punchy.

Although Brady hopes her memoir will "make things feel better for the next autistic or misfit girl," her anger is as evident as her compassion. An unflinching self-portrait..