autisticliving:

I want a post-apocalypse novel about a non-verbal, autistic teenager whose special interest is apocalypses. For years, she has read and watched everything on the topic and she has an abundance of theoretical information. Then the apocalypse arrives and she suddenly has to leave her routines and apply that information. She finds a group of other survives, but they shun her because she can’t speak, because she has meltdowns and shutdowns, motoric issues and executive dysfunction. No one else in the group of survives knows sign language and no one has the time to read what she tries to write, so she is incapable of communicating with them and they deem her incompetent. She has to go off on her own, where she meets a deaf girl who has also been shunned despite being an excellent shot.  They both know sign language and continue as a team, a team that grows while they travel through a post-apocalyptic world and meet new disabled people who are also on their own and who joins them.