The Ride Together: A Brother and Sister's Memoir of Autism in the Family

Awesome book filled with humor and great comic strip pictures. I enjoyed reading all the family adventures and also the comic book pictures. Highly recommend to every person who has a sibling with autism, this book will bring you hope and joy. Ron Sandison, author of A Parent's Guide to Autism: Practical Advice. Biblical Wisdom and founder of Spectrum Inclusion

The condition of the book came in as I expected and my son was able to use it for his college course.

I love it and it all ties together! I really enjoyed reading this book. I had to read it for a family human services class.

Sombering story of the ups and downs of a family caring for a loved member with autism.

I am still reading this book for my class. It is very interesting. I would recommend this book to someone learning about autism because it gives first hand experience of what it is like to live with someone with autism.

Rich book written by siblings who lived with a person with autism. The sibiling with autism is high functioning and verbal, takes meds for occasional seizures (which we never hear about the autistic person having in story), but doesn't engage in direct conversation, rather he recites things he's seen on TV. Memoir is written about a time between 1950s to 2001. There isn't a lot written about autism itself here, but rather a scattered look at life with autism during a time when people didn't really understand people with disabilities, but did their best. The family is remarkable. The mother and father resilient, tough, kind and loveable. At one point, we learn the parents become strong advocates for their son, but the authors don't elaborate how they advocated or what came of it. The sister author is sibling with the biggest heart and empathy for her brother with autism. The other other author, Paul, is honest about his understandable past frustrations, writes comics to express himself, which are funny and creative. At the end of book you discover a hidden secret, one in which has plagued people with autism for years and has remained unresolved. It is not the focal point of book, but it should wake people up to a pervasive, hidden problem that must and should be aggressively acknowledged and radically improved. You'll discover it near the end of book. The end is a little abrupt. We don't know where their brother is today. It would be nice to see a follow up story. Overall, a great book and highly recommended.

This book brings the amazing combined approaches from siblings growing up with a brother whose different-ness and involved special needs have carried him well into adulthood. The writers recall their early lives as family members and individuals in their own rights as they share the challenges of loving their perplexing, often-funny, never-boring brother.

This book is great, I felt it was telling the story of my brother. It was great to read, this. The format of the book is very easy to read, reading with comics.