How It Feels to Me (Autism Edition)

This is a preorder for the autistic edition of How it Feels to Me.

This edition has minor changes to the text to center autistic experience and is meant to be a resource to families, teachers, and therapists who are teaching about autism specifically. Additional types of neurodivergence are mentioned as a footnote.

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How it Feels to Me is a picture book about autism for all ages. We would like children and adults to learn about differences in sensory modulation to better understand themselves and each other. We hope readers will take away an understanding that their sensory experience (and that of others) is valid. Sensory modulation is the brain's automatic process of turning the intensity of senses up or down. This book explores the science behind how we each experience the world.

Sarah Shotts (author) grew up without understanding why the world felt so loud and scratchy and overwhelming. Being diagnosed as autistic and raising an autistic child helped them understand their differences as neurodivergence rather than character flaws. Sarah studied visual and performing arts in university, earning degrees from Mississippi University for Women and Goldsmiths, University of London.

Gracie Klumpp (illustrator) always felt different, but didn't know what to call it or how to embrace it until they were already grown up. As an illustrator and graphic novelist, Gracie is learning to lean into the unique way they see, exist, and create in the world. Trained in animation at Huntington University, Gracie likes to tell stories with words and pictures for other people who feel like they've fallen between the cracks of life.