Amazon.com description: Product Description: Tom describes what living with non-verbal autism is like. He shares how it is a struggle to communicate with others. He tries hard to make friends but feels no one really takes the time to get to know him. He communicates with a communication device and he is a brilliant person.. Getting people to take extra time to communicate with him is challenging. Tom shares the challenges and triumphs.' Tom wants to make friends. He longs for friendships and relationships but because he does not know how to communicate he often is left to be lonely. Tom talks about his depression and some of the things that he deals with in terms of anxiety. Tom is an excellent writer. He wants to teach his peers how to communicate with him the way he knows how. Tom is non-verbal. He cannot get words to come from his brain to his mouth,, however, he is great at getting words from his brain to paper. Tom is brilliant and has a special place in the world somewhere. He is just trying to find out where. Will you read his book to get to know him?