Finding our words

14 year old Oliver has never spoken a full sentence in xyr life. But ever since xyr autism diagnosis at 7 xem never talking and learning American Sign Language at 5 started making sense. Xe communicates through signs, communication cards, writing and the few words xe is able to to say. Because of xyr issues with communication xe's never had many friends. In xyr current special Ed class xe has one friend, a 9 year old deaf girl, the only other kid who knows sign language. Will he find a new friend when the new boy joins his class?

Clover just got diagnosed with autism. He can't believe people needed 15 years to notice he's struggling. His parents don't want to accept his autism diagnosis the same way they don't accept any other of the diagnosis he's got or him being trans. Ever since he came out everything in his life goes wrong; all his friends at school left him; outside of school he's only got one friend; his parents hate him; the people at school bully him; his depression got worse and so many more bad things keep happening to him. His English teacher enrolled him into the special Ed class even though neither him nor his parents really wanted that to happen but according to her it's better for him. Will he be able to make new friends? Or will he be left alone again?

This is a story about the struggles of not fitting into the social norms but also a story about finding people like yourself and how much joy not feeling alone gives someone.