A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum
Ratings13
Average rating3.5
Nothing wrong with this per se, but the author is a bit young for a memoir (22), so there's not a lot of meat to this.
And I guess I was expecting something more along the lines of the title, which sounds like a surprised response to successful masking. The author wears his autism quite visibly by being a comedian whose humor talks about his experiences. Which is great, but we never hear the conversation of the title, and it sounds like he must get a lot in adulthood. Instead we hear about his childhood/teens where everyone could tell that he was autistic, and the bullying and outcast feelings that come with it. (Which is fine - include that in your memoir, by all means, but I was just expecting the title to come in somewhere I suppose.)