A preview of the book

Don’t all kids like Legos, chicken nuggets, chips, and ice-cream? This is the question that six year old McKenzie would like answered.

It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…Nope, it’s just me is a 494 word children’s story that deals with a child living with severe autism. In this story McKenzie tries to explain some of her odd traits, by using comparisons to super-heroes, aliens, sports-stars, and animals. She hopes that by the end of the story everyone will understand that she isn’t a “thing”, just a “normal” girl.

I have written this story because my daughter McKenzie lives with severe autism everyday. We have been the recipients of the non-autism-aware people, who do look at her as if she were a “thing” or “weird”.

With the numbers of children diagnosed with autism rising every year, there is a need for people to be informed about these kids. And what better place to start the information then with our children. I feel this book not only will keep the children laughing, but also inform them that the children with autism are normal kids too.




A short preview.....

Hi, my name is McKenzie.

Look at me. What do you see? A regular kid like yourself? I hope so.

But there is something different about me that I want you to know.

Mommy and Daddy say that I am very special.

Do you want to know some of the reasons why?

I wear a helmet, but I’m not a sports-star, like Wayne Grezky, or Peyton Manning.

And I don’t have any super powers. Not like Superman or Spiderman. I wish I did though, and then I could fly up high and climb all over things without getting into trouble. Oh, I would like that.



If anyone wants to read more, or has any interest in illustrations for it, or even knows of a publishing company that may actually look at it, please let me know.

I love this story and I really think it would do a world of good for those with and without autism.