Help understanding a scene in the movie Adam?

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Can someone please explain to me the end scene of the movie Adam were he reads the book? what is it trying to tell us? I don't quite get it and that bothers me.

The girl wrote a book about the squirrels Adam took her to watch in the park together. This I believe was when she really fell for Adam, when he took her to see those squirrels. When the girl proposed the idea about her book, Adam wanted to know why the book should be about make believe squirrels and not the real squirrels (his black and white thinking of Aspergers). Although the relationship did not work out, she wrote the book anyway and I think (if I remember correctly) she named the book or the squirrel, Adam, after him. At the end, Adam is reading the book that she wrote about it.

Well yes, I think the writers knew that when movie-goers entered the theater, they knew the main question on their mind would be, "Can an Aspie and an NT really love each other? Can they really form a relationship?"

When Beth says she won't go to California with him if he can't manage without her on a practical level, many would wrongly interpret that to mean that he never really touched her heart or made a mark on her. The fact that she wrote the book, and made it about him even though they are so far apart, I believe, is meant to mean that despite the distance, despite the problems, he has still become an indelible part of who she is.

Bear in mind that it's the first book she wrote. So from then on, whenever the list of books she wrote shows up in records about her, that book about him is always going to be at the top. So that moment where he seems to be having an epiphany at the end is him getting the answer to the question we all wondered going in: Yes, an AS and an NT can really love each other, just in a different way because they are different.

It may be trying to tell us they had a connection even if they could not stay a couple.

I loved this movie, and I loved Adam the character, but the end of the movie bothered me. The only romance film I've ever seen in which the protagonists didn't end up falling madly in love and getting married or at least resolving their issues and hooking up at the end, is the one in which the aspie and the NT fall in love. I can't help but feel like it's telling us that NT/AS relationships can't work out like NT/NT ones do.