Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin

In junior high, nobody really fits in much. Some of you think you do, but deep down you always wonder if you really do. Jason is trying to fit in to our neurotypical world, but it's hard when you tend to get overloaded by everything that's happening in most classrooms, public places, and even your own home. The one place he finds his voice is on a writing online site where he can post his stories for all to see. There he finds maybe his first real friend and she is a girl. As the friendship grows, he wonders what would happen if he would ever get to meet her. The convention of Story Boarders might be his chance, but at what cost? How do you handle a chance to see your first friend when it might cost you the ability to finish maybe the best story you have ever written? The world works in strange ways at times, especially when you can tune into it the way only an autistic person can. This is for anyone who really wonders how they will ever fit into a world that doesn't understand you and for those who really wonder how their autistic classmate sees that same world.