Will I love All the Noise at Once?

The book tackles so many critical and necessary conversations with such care and thought. 

Some of those topics include racism, classism and class segregation, the stress of excellence and being a “model citizen,” family expectations, ableism and neurodivergent treatment in a neurotypical world, police brutality and power imbalances. The book never feels bloated or didactic.

These topics are all so organically woven into the narrative that they only invite the reader to engage and think about the systems in the world we live in. All the Noise at Once is realistic in the difficult, but also the hopeful.

Aiden and… show more.

“This is real for you today, but Blackness is not your reality. And look, I am not judging. I have been Black all my life, but until recently, autism has been my whole reality. I never paid attention to how my Blackness made autism much more dangerous until now. And now I see it. I see it, and Marcia, I cannot unsee it. You see something. Do not close your eyes. Do not try to unsee it. “

I LOVE this book. I love Aiden. I deeply relate to aspects of Aiden and appreciate so much things he articulates that… show more.