Jason Blake (Anything But Typical)

Jason Blake is a main character in the middle grade novel Anything but Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin.

Character creation
Author Nora Raleigh Baskin used autobiographies, memoirs and movies about autistic people for research.

Autism
Jake was diagnosed with ASD in 3rd grade. His mother prefers the terms nonverbal learning disorder and PDD-NOS.