Stim : an autistic anthology / edited by Lizzie Huxley-Jones.

Introduction / Lizzie Huxley-Jones -- MARACA / Gemma Williams -- The lost mothers / Rachael Lucas -- Intersected like me / Mrs Kerima Cevik -- Shapes in dreams / Amelia Wells -- Untitled and tension / Tjallien de Witte -- This love / Nell Brown -- Becoming less / Robert Shepherd -- Escape to the country / c f prior -- It has nothing to do with how I look / Megan Rhiannon -- Hungry / Grace Au -- Stripping while autistic / Reese Piper -- Handling the bones / Ashleigh J Mills -- Bluebells / Helen Carmichael -- The strangers / Katherine Kingsford -- Information superhighway / Tristan Alice Nieto -- More human than human / Agri Ismail -- Once more with feeling / Laura James -- Thirteen ways of looking at [you] / Waverly SM -- Resources -- Editor's Acknowledgements -- The Contributors -- Supporters

Around one in one hundred people in the UK are autistic, and the saying goes that if you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person. Autistic people's personalities, differences and experiences outweigh the diagnostic criteria that link them, yet stereotypes persist and continue to inform a fundamental misunderstanding of what it is to be autistic. Rarely do autistic people get a chance to speak for themselves, but this insightful and eye-opening collection of essays, fiction and visual art showcases the immense talents of eighteen of the world's most exciting autistic writers and artists. Stim invites the reader into the lives and minds of the contributors, and asks them to recognise the challenges of being autistic in a non-autistic world. Inspired by a desire to place the conversation around autism back into autistic hands, editor Lizzie Huxley-Jones has brought together humorous, honest and hopeful pieces that explore the many facets of being autistic. -- book jacket