I will admit that I may be getting the premise of the book itself wrong, but the title is highly misleading, as is the inside jacket. And her connections to some seriously twisted parents' orgs for autism really makes me twitch.

In my opinion, and this could be dangerous ground, the Hobbfail is pretty symptomatic of an ongoing refusal to consider the experiences of the person with a mental health condition. This is particularly definitive when that person is a child. Despite the talk of patient-centered medical care, and the shifts that have admittedly been made in some areas of mental health (though it's still often very fucked up), parental advocacy runs unchecked.

Thank fuck that I had/have a thoughtful team over the years, and that my mother took my experiences into consideration. I'm fortunate and privileged.