Book Note: THE ELECTRICITY OF EVERY LIVING THING, by Katherine May

A beautiful treatise on a late-in-life autism diagnosis.

“There is no single, defining version of autism, but instead an overlapping multiplicity of minds. The term ‘spectrum’ is a poor way of capturing the sheer diversity of our experience—it’s too linear, too fixed. When I imagine us, I think of a constellation instead, or perhaps a galaxy: millions of different stars shining, each expressing their fire in …