“Tito . . . describes with powerful clarity what the condition feels like from the inside. . . . His vivid autobiographical reflections reveal a sensibility and intelligence greater than his years.”

“Amazing, shocking, too, for it has usually been assumed that deeply autistic people are scarcely capable of introspection or deep thought. . . . Tito gives the lie to all these assumptions.”

“Tito is not only authentic, but also miraculous. . . . He is a beautiful example of the possible.”

“Tito is challenging every assumption about autism, turning the world of parents of autistic children upside down.”

“Tito is a medical wonder.”

Evocative prose . . . Mukhopadhyay reflects on autism without romanticizing it. . . . An eye-opening book on a serious disorder and the hope that other autistic children can learn to transcend it through education and imaginitive self-reflection.

Mukhopadhyay communicates splendidly in writing . . . and he is exceptionally knowledgeable as well as bright. . . . He knows English poetry well, too—part of the language skills that he exercises as no one has before to tell us what the world is like to one who genuinely sees things differently.

Parents of autistic children will take special interest in his mother’s step-by-step methods for controlling his repetitive behaviors and for teaching him to perform simple tasks like tying his shoes and putting on a shirt. . . . Mukhopadhyay’s detailed account of how the autistic mind works sheds light on a condition usually characterized by the inability to communicate.

Required reading for any parents struggling with a diagnosis of autism for their child, or for any professional wanting to help . . . Dive into Mukhopadhyay's insights on his condition. . . . Writing gives him control of his world and a way to communicate, an "impossible" feat he began when he was six. . . .Brave, bold, and deeply felt, this book shows that much we might have believed about autism can be wrong.

He writes often with a certain playfulness and wit. . . . He's nineteen. He’s severely autistic. And it’s his third book.

After hearing Tito's story, you’ll never look at an autistic child the same way. . . . His distinctive way of speaking is also a gift that has made him famous in a misunderstood community. . . . Tito has given experts some rare insight into what autism feels like.

Even more than The Mind Tree, How Can I Talk if My Lips Don't Move? documents a consciousness, one that hypothesizes about brain function, cites thinkers from neurologist Antonio Damasio to physicist Erwin Schrodinger, includes the author’s poems, mulls over what "neuro-typicals may be thinking." . . . Tito delivers the story of a life that is a remarkably sensory experience. . . . He discusses his astonishingly rich sensory world, a place ripe with transformations and synesthesia. . . . What is most remarkable about him, perhaps, is that a precocious literary output is only part of his story.