The book was almost entirely unsurprising to me, which is a compliment.

It captures a variety of topics of the autistic experience, often through the lens of some autistic person's life story. While these individual stories differ strongly from my own, the underlying patterns explored through them are deeply familiar.

The compliment here is that this approach works - it covers a wide area by it's use of more focused examples, wide enough to either find yourself (or not). And the examples also humanize the experiences in a way you wouldn't achieve without their specifics.

That said, by covering a lot of ground, it's also not the resource that you want when you'd like to dig deeper into one topic or another. The good news is, there are plenty of references in the last section to go for that.