Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening

Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant

Daniel Tammet · 256 pages

Twirling Naked in the Streets and No One Noticed: Growing Up With Undiagnosed Autism

Jeannie Davide-Rivera

Mozart and the Whale: An Asperger's Love Story

Jerry Newport, Mary Newport, Johnny Dodd · 272 pages

The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius

Kristine Barnett · 250 pages

The mother of an autistic child who was eventually recognized as a genius recounts her rejection of conventional advice from developmental experts and shares the strategies she utilized for tapping her son's potential.

Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome

Liane Holliday Willey · 182 pages

The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband

David Finch · 224 pages

At some point in nearly every marriage, a wife finds herself asking, What the ... is wrong with my husband?! In the author's case, this turns out to be an apt question. Five years after he married Kristen, the love of his life, they learn that he has Asperger syndrome. The diagnosis explains his ever-growing list of quirks and compulsions, his lifelong propensity to quack and otherwise melt down i

Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir

Chris Packham

Thorn in My Pocket: Temple Grandin's Mother Tells the Family Story

Eustacia Cutler · 227 pages

Carly's Voice: Breaking Through Autism

Arthur Fleischmann, Carly Fleischmann · 391 pages

The father of a child who was diagnosed as autistic at the age of two describes the intensive therapies that were pursued before Carly had a breakthrough at the age of ten, when she began using her computer to communicate.

Emergence: Labeled Autistic

Temple Grandin, Margaret M. Scariano · 180 pages

"A true story that is both uniquely moving and exceptionally inspiring, Emergence is the first-hand account of a courageous autistic woman who beat the odds and cured herself. As a child, Temple Grandin was forced to leave her "normal" school and enroll in a school for autistic children. This searingly honest account captures the isolation and fears suffered by autistics and their families and the

Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism

Jenny McCarthy · 213 pages

The remarkable story of one mother's fight to 'heal' her autistic son.On the morning Jenny McCarthy discovered her two-year-old son Evan having a seizure, her life turned upside down. From being the mother of an average toddler she was suddenly thrown into a world of turmoil. As doctor after doctor misdiagnosed his symptoms, Evan suffered many harrowing, life-threatening episodes. Then, one amazin

How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move: Inside My Autistic Mind

Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay · 239 pages

Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

Temple Grandin · 222 pages

The idea that some people think differently, though no less humanly, is explored in this inspiring book. Temple Grandin is a gifted and successful animal scientist, and she is autistic. Here she tells us what it was like to grow up perceiving the world in an entirely concrete and visual way – somewhat akin to how animals think, she believes – and how it feels now. Through her finely observed under

George And Sam

Charlotte Moore · 296 pages

Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence

Luke Jackson · 228 pages

The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

Temple Grandin, Richard Panek · 256 pages

I have before me as a reviewer for amazon.com/vine an Advance Reading Copy of Grandin's THE AUTISTIC BRAIN (2013). Notably absent are a score or more of illustrations.

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

Naoki Higashida · 186 pages

Written by a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, this memoir demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Using an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct words, sentences, and thoughts that he is unable to speak out loud, Naoki answers even the most delicate questions that people want to know

This Is Not a Love Story

Judy Brown · 347 pages

The third of six children in a family that harks back to a gloried Hassidic dynasty, Judy Brown grew up with the legacy of centuries of religious teaching, and the faith and lore that sustained her people for generations. But her carefully constructed world begins to crumble when her "crazy" brother Nachum returns home after a year in Israel living with relatives. Though supposedly "cured," he is

Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart

James R. Doty · 276 pages

The author relates how a chance encounter in a magic shop with a woman who taught him exercises to ease his sufferings and manifest his greatest desires gave him a glimpse of the relationship between the brain and the heart, and drove him to explore the neuroscience of compassion and altruism.

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

Henry Marsh · 278 pages

In neurosurgery, more than in any other branch of medicine, the doctor's oath to "do no harm" holds a bitter irony. Operations on the brain carry grave risks. Every day, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh must make agonizing decisions, often in the face of great urgency and uncertainty. If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite craft, practiced by calm and detached doctors, thi

Here's to Not Catching Our Hair on Fire: An Absent-Minded Tale of Life with Giftedness and Attention Deficit - Oh Look! A Chicken!

Stacey Turis · 218 pages

"A belly-laugh inducing romp through a life so convoluted and chaotic you know it has to be true, Stacey Turis's debut gives a voice to the genius yet tormented souls suffering from giftedness, ADHD, or a combination of both (a condition known as twice-exceptional) who are too afraid to speak. Chronicling her life journey from a state of self-loathing to one of self-acceptance, the stories flow ti

On the Move: A Life

Oliver Sacks · 416 pages

An impassioned, tender, and joyous memoir by the author of Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far." It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On th

Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel

Jason Padgett, Maureen Ann Seaberg · 249 pages

"No one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movement of tree branches, revealing the intrinsic mathematical designs hidden in the objects around us. Yet Padgett wasn't born this way. Twelve years ago, he had never made it past pre-algebra. But a viol

Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had

Brad Cohen, Lisa Wysocky