Author and Autism Advocate Jennifer Cook remembers as a little girl, diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, being told she was "too smart for her own good and invariably overly sensitive." For her, her "otherwise unrelated constellation of symptoms" from being autistic felt like looking at the stars from the moon instead of from the earth; of course, they were going to look totally different ... but everyone wanted her to see and feel and experience life as if from the "normal" view.
See our full interview with Jennifer Cook here: https://www.readingrockets.org/teaching/experts/jennifer-cook
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