You guys in this video, I'll be discussing this book.
A bird will soar all about autism and different types of friendships.
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Okay guys.
I was contacted by the amazing people who wrote this.
And the author of this book, Alison green Meyers actually
is a watcher of this channel.
So howdy Alison and they contacted and they said, Hey, I've written this book.
And I wanted to know if you could check it out and maybe we could do
a video on, I said, yeah, totally.
So thank you.
Awesome for sponsoring this video and sending me this book,
which was absolutely fantastic.
So this is the book.
This book is called a bird will soar.
Now, Alison is an author.
She's written a bunch of different books and she works for, um, a
very popular newspaper magazine in the United States of America.
But in terms of this book that she sent me, it is absolutely fantastic.
A bird will soar it.
What I like about this book is that it has the main characters, narcissistic
person, and they go through the motions.
Exploring their special interest in such, um, vast beauty.
And it's all about birds and birdwatching and understanding the
different complexities of birds and the different things that birds have.
You know, autistic people have special interests.
They have special fields of interest.
And those interests really magnify when a person on the autism spectrum
is allowed to hyper focus on the thing that they're really into.
And so for the character in this book, it's birds, and one of the most
fascinating parts is it's an insight into how the brain of an autistic person.
Thinks about this is a, you know, a fictional story, but I guess
based on factual events that the author has come across in their
life and really thought about.
Now, the interesting thing about this is when I first read it, I was
thinking about how the character talks about meeting a friend.
Who's also interested in birdwatching and bird identification.
And so that's really interesting.
But they also have this group, which is what the parents take the kids
to, who are on the spectrum called the friendship group or friends club.
And they want to start their own club for birdwatching enthusiasts because it's
a special interest and they're also on the spectrum and now they're friends.
And so they also call it friends clubs.
So it's really funny how they, they want to call it friends club,
but they can't because there's already a clinical friends club.
And it's just this beautiful story about how the autistic brain really
tries to understand and find its feet.
Making friends or social situations because it's very
literal in its thinking process.
Now, this book is a very light read.
I find it really interesting B it took me a while to actually read the
words because I'm heavily dyslexic there isn't audio version available.
So you can get this on audio book.
You can get it on digital Kindle, I think as well.
And the physical booklet.
It's nice to have the physical book in my hand because you know,
it's just nice to have this thing in my collection now also really.
The author is absolutely lovely.
And it was an absolute honor of mine to interview the author and
talk a little bit about this book.
Now, one of the things I've noticed about books, about people on the autism
spectrum is that they're always academic.
There's not many books about autism that are nonfactual, and they're
just about fantasy or just a story.
And I started that'll generally bubble along, but this book
breaks that mold for me.
It's the first time I found a book that.
About autistic people, which is completely fictional.
And I love that.
And I think that more of that needs to be done.
So if you want something, that's just like a light read, something
fun, something that isn't pressured.
Non-academic nothing that's going to be like gory and trying to overload
your mind with information, then definitely check out this book or you
bird will soar Alison green Myers.
Absolutely.
Fantastic book.
Blink will be in the description down below.
Once you've read the book, come back and comment on this video.
I'd like to know your thoughts on it, or if you've already read it, let me
know, leave a comment down below, give this video and like, and if you want
to recommend this book to anybody, please do all the help is super needed.
And thanks to Allison for sending me this book.
I'll see you guys in the next video.
Peace.