"Alvie Fitz doesn't fit in, and she doesn't care. She's spent years swallowing meds and bad advice from doctors and social workers. Adjust, adapt. Pretend to be normal. It sounds so easy. If she can make it to her eighteenth birthday without any major mishaps, she'll be legally emancipated. Free. But if she fails, she'll become a ward of the state and be sent back to the group home"--Jacket. Alvie Fitz has spent years swallowing meds and bad advice...

"One educator's successful attempts to help autistic students find their voices through poetry, offering a pioneering approach to our relationship to people with autism and how we use language to express our seemingly limitless interior lives"--