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Chapter 2

  • All about autism
  • What is autism?
  • What’s a developmental disability? Am I okay?
  • How autism works
  • Thinking differences
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  • Executive functioning
  • Meltdowns and shutdowns
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All about autism

This chapter will talk more about what autism means. How you feel about autism is up to you, but we hope this book helps you feel good about autism.

Here are some important things to know about autism. We will talk more about these things later in the chapter.

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