Please Don’t Hug Me is written as a series of letters to Rudy, Erin’s older brother, who is not around anymore for reasons that soon become clear. But despite her meticulous planning, things start to head in quite a different direction. As the book opens, she has one main focus-going to Schoolies with her best friend Dee. Erin is a planner she has strong ideas about how things should play out, and feels most comfortable in a routine. And she wants to keep all of this to herself-people at school finding out she is autistic would be a huge item for the cringe list. She is autistic, so as well as living the teen experiences her peers are going through, she is dealing with deciphering social cues, avoiding outbursts, and keeping her ‘cringe list’-where she keeps track of social mistakes and misunderstandings-to a minimum. Please Don’t Hug Me is our First Book Club pick for May-stay tuned to the KYD website and Podcast for more throughout the month!Įrin is in her final year of school, navigating formals, final exams and driving lessons. Kay Kerr (Text Publishing, available now)
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