How to Find a Four-Leaf Clover: What Autism Can Teach Us about Difference, Connection, and Belonging

By Jodi Rodgers

Book Overview

A powerfully moving read from beloved Love on the Spectrum star and disability rights advocate Jodi Rodgers, sharing lessons from her work within the autistic community that can help create a more inclusive society for us all.

In How to Find a Four-Leaf Clover, Jodi Rodgers gives us inspiring, heartwarming stories from her years of experience as a teacher and counselor supporting autistic people. While acknowledging our differences, these stories invite us to expand our empathy and compassion for the neurodivergent people in our lives. Throughout, Rodgers explores the powerful impact of embracing neurodiversity and forming meaningful connections with those around us. Each chapter highlights a different story and an aspect of human behavior, including:
How we perceive the world, and our own unique experience of thinking, sensing, and feeling How we communicate our perspective to others, understand one another, and express ourselves How we can better connect with one another
With dozens of moving stories, How to Find a Four-Leaf Clover will give readers a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the neurodiverse community around them. Above all, it will inspire a profound sense of belonging, revealing that we're much more similar than we think.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316471976
• ISBN13: 9780316471978
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"