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Navigating the Teenage Years: Autism & Adolescence
Paperback
Series: The Autism Life, Book 3
Autism Spectrum DisordersChild PsychologyGeneral Parenting
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Alan Saunders Books
Published: Dec 13 2025
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Picture the school dance. Not the dancing - the edge of it. Your teenager standing there, wanting in, held back by the noise and the unwritten rules everyone else seems to have gotten a copy of.
Laura Mitchell wrote Navigating the Teenage Years: Autism & Adolescence for that exact edge - and for everyone standing near it. Parents bracing for puberty, IEP meetings, and the first real fights about independence. Teachers trying to reach a kid who learns and communicates differently than the lesson plan assumes. And autistic teens old enough to read this themselves and find their own experience named, not diagnosed.
This isn't a book about forcing a teenager to act more normal. Adolescence is hard enough without adding that goal to the list. It's a book about puberty, friendship, school, identity, and the first steps toward independence, written for a nervous system that experiences all of it more intensely - and often without an instruction manual.
Inside, you'll find:
- Puberty and physical changes explained without the assumptions built for neurotypical teens
- Social situations - school dances, group chats, lunch tables - broken down with real scripts, not vague advice to just be yourself
- Emotional regulation techniques a stressed, overwhelmed teenage nervous system can actually use in the moment
- How to teach self-advocacy early, so your teen learns to ask for what they need years before they have to do it alone
- Career and independence planning that starts long before what's next becomes an emergency
- Separate sections written directly to parents, directly to educators, and directly to the teen - not just about them
What makes this book different: most resources pick one audience and leave the rest guessing. This one speaks to all three people in the room - because a teenager doesn't grow up in isolation, and neither should the guidance meant to help them.
To every autistic teenager reading this, or being read to: you are not a problem to be solved. The teenage years won't always be easy, but they won't always be this hard either. You're allowed to grow at your own pace and decide who you want to become.
This book is rooting for them too.
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