Sensory: Life on the Spectrum: An Autistic Comics Anthology

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Think about ways to aid comprehension – would adding questions help, or replacing some text with blanks for the person to fill in?

The perfect proof that comics can educate autistic people, inspire autistic people and be created by autistic people, Face Value comics not only depict everything which I have previously discussed today, but at only 5 years old, this incredible company shows that when it comes to the representation of autism within comics, we are only just getting started.This middle-grade novel follows Addie, an autistic girl who is appalled to discover the witch trials held hundreds of years ago in the Scottish town where she lives. I explain the spectrum as ‘a colour wheel shot with shotgun pellets’ and that each autist has their own unique ‘constellation’ of traits, disabilty and gifts. This colorful smorgasbord of 53 short comics allows glimpses of how varied life experiences can be for people identifying as autistic. I definitely recommend reading this if you either want to learn more or feel connected with other like-minded people.

It stresses me out to no extent when the interaction doesn’t flow properly, and I’ve had to build a set of survival skills for this type of situations.

As Huxley-Jones notes in the introduction to this book, there is a saying in the community: “if you’ve met one autistic person, you’ve met one autistic person.