While searching for literature about her autistic perception, Maria Zimmermann decided to write and design a book about it herself. In the process, she learned how much the language we use to talk about something shapes our relationship to it. She speaks of discovery, not diagnosis; trait, not symptom; being autistic, not having autism; on the spectrum, not off the spectrum; sensory sensitivity, not sensory processing disorder; peculiarity, not difficulty; different, not wrong.