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Include books by the same authorSwitched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening
John Elder Robison · 320 pages
"When John Elder Robison published Look Me in the Eye, his darkly funny bestselling memoir about growing up with Asperger's Syndrome, he was launched into international prominence as an autism expert. But in spite of his success, he still struggled to decode the secret language of social interactions, and often felt like a misfit who understood car engines better than people. So when a group of Ha
Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome
Liane Holliday Willey · 182 pages
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
Twirling Naked in the Streets and No One Noticed: Growing Up With Undiagnosed Autism
Jeannie Davide-Rivera
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.
George And Sam
Charlotte Moore · 296 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
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
Daniel Tammet · 256 pages
Mozart and the Whale: An Asperger's Love Story
Jerry Newport, Mary Newport, Johnny Dodd · 272 pages
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
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir
Chris Packham
By the Iowa Sea: A Memoir of Disaster and Love
Joe Blair · 280 pages
Recounts the author's transformation from an idealistic, freedom-loving youth to a jaded and financially struggling father of four and how a catastrophic flood helped him to reconnect with the faith and courage of his childhood.
Life's That Way
Jim Beaver · 303 pages
Lifes That Way is a modern-day Book of Job. In August 2003, Jim Beaver, a character actor whom many know from the popular HBO series Deadwood, and his wife Cecily learned what they thought was the worst news possible their daughter Maddie was autistic. Then six weeks later the roof fell inCecily was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer. Jim immediately began writing a nightly e-mail as a way to k
Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic
Donna Williams · 219 pages
Labeled deaf, retarded, disturbed, and insane, Donna Williams lived in a world of her own. Alternating between rigid hostility and extroversion, she waged what she termed her war against "the world." She lived in a dreamlike state, withdrawn, viewing her incomprehensible surroundings from the security of a "world under glass," parroting the voices of those around her in the hope that they would le
Thorn in My Pocket: Temple Grandin's Mother Tells the Family Story
Eustacia Cutler · 227 pages
All I Can Handle: I'm No Mother Teresa: A Life Raising Three Daughters with Autism
Kim Stagliano · 200 pages
Kim Stagliano's electrifying and hilarious memoir of her family's journey raising three daughters with autism. In these stories, Stagliano has joined the ranks of David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs with her ability to lay everything on the table--from family, friends, and enemies to basement floods to birthdays to (possible) heroin addictions--eviscerating and celebrating the absurd. From her lo
Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism
Ron Suskind · 358 pages
"Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a
Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism
Paul Collins · 256 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.
To Siri With Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of a Machine
Judith Newman · 242 pages
3500: An Autistic Boy's Ten-Year Romance with Snow White
Ron Miles · 246 pages
Following Ezra: What One Father Learned About Gumby, Otters, Autism, and Love From His Extraordinary Son
Tom Fields-Meyer · 241 pages
"A heartwarming and hopeful memoir of a father's experience raising his autistic son. When his son Ezra was diagnosed with autism, Tom Fields-Meyer knew little about parenting and even less about neurological disorders. This intimate memoir chronicles his remarkable experiences of learning and growth from the time Ezra was diagnosed at age three to his bar mitzvah at thirteen. In that time, Ezra