What to Feel, How to Feel: lyric essays on neurodivergence and neurofatherhood (Summary, Reviews & Purchase Options)

What if difference wasn’t a diagnosis—but a doorway into deeper understanding? In What to feel, how to feel, Shane Neilson brings the lyric essay to stunning new heights, blending memoir, literary history, and poetic inquiry to examine non-neurotypicality through a deeply human lens. As you travel with Neilson through childhood, fatherhood, and the medical profession that once failed him, this collection becomes more than a personal reckoning—it becomes a challenge to the systems that define and diminish difference. Bold, beautiful, and profoundly original, What to feel, how to feel offers a first-of-its-kind reflection on neurodivergent identity in Canadian literature, asking not just how we feel—but who gets to decide.