GROWING UP AUTISTIC: Finding Your Way With Simple Strategies
Niamh Garvey
Publishing 19/11/26
RIGHTS SOLD: WEL/ Jessica Kingsley Publishing
RIGHTS AVAILABLE: All other rights via The bks Agency
Being autistic means experiencing the world in your own way.
Sometimes the modern world isn't well designed for autistic people, and how we experience things differently. This friendly, illustrated book is packed with simple ideas to help with everyday autistic life, like big feelings, busy senses, school days, meltdowns, and changes to your routine.
There's no "right" or "wrong" way to be autistic, and this book isn't about changing who you are.
It's about figuring out what helps you feel calmer, more confident, and more in control.
GROWING UP AUTISTIC is the follow up to the bestselling BEING AUTISTIC (AND WHAT THAT ACTUALLY MEANS). With black and white illustrations by Rebecca Burgess, it introduces autistic children to simple-yet-life transforming strategies through the help of three neurodivergent characters.
“A wonderfully accessible and compassionate book, filled with engaging illustrations that make complex ideas easy to understand. An essential resource for young autistic people and the parents, carers, and professionals supporting them to understand sensory differences”
NIAMH GARVEY is an Irish autistic author and editor of books for both adults and children. She is passionate about advocating for improved awareness and acceptance of neurodivergence, especially autism. She lives in Cork with her husband, three neurodivergent children, a handful of hens and some goldfish.
In addition to BEING AUTISTIC and GROWING UP AUTISTIC, she is also the author of LOOKING AFTER YOUR AUTISTIC SELF, THE AUTISTIC GUIDE TO COMMUNICATING AND CONNECTING, and the editor of an anthology of Irish autistic voices, WIRED OUR OWN WAY.
