I really dislike please-evolve-out-of-your-autism narratives and this was definitely one, if I ever saw one. A pretty harmful narrative, in my opinion, where autistic people are seen as inhuman or "robots", and where the only path to true life and happiness is by some form of conversion into normativity, because being your authentic self is clearly not enough and makes you sub-human. Ugh. There were aspects of the writing and the story that I enjoyed, but that is all unimportant given the overall taste that the book left in my mouth. Example quote from the book: "I wanted to know more people, to be able to engage in deep conversations, and to learn what is was to be human." And another one:

At last, I became a human.

I wouldn't have minded it as much if it were the main character that had such view only, but it's the narrative itself that promotes it that I find unbearable.