Black, White, and Everything In Between: How I Stopped Looking for the Right Move and Started Playing My Own Game (Autism & Inclusion Series): ASD

What if the hardest years of parenting an autistic child aren't a problem to be solved, but a game to be understood?

Every piece on a chessboard moves differently — and none of them is wrong for moving the way it does. The pawn advances one square at a time. The knight leaps in a shape nobody else can follow. The king, weakest in raw power, is the only piece the whole game is actually about.

Drawing on more than twenty years working with autistic children and their families, Leah Avital Dlinov reframes the slow progress, the misunderstood meltdowns, and the exhausting comparisons of autism parenting as exactly what they are: different pieces, moving correctly, on a board with its own rules.

A parenting book that reframes autism, one chess piece at a time.