The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome

Asperger's and Girls: World-Renowned Experts Join Those with Asperger's Syndrome to Resolve Issues That Girls and Women Face Every Day!

Tony Attwood, Temple Grandin, Teresa Bolick, Catherine Faherty, Lisa Iland, Jennifer McIlwee Myers, Ruth Snyder, Sheila Wagner, Mary Wroble · 152 pages

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

Steve Silberman · 544 pages

What is autism? A lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more—and the future of our society depends on our understanding it. WIRED reporter Steve Silberman unearths the secret history of autism, long suppressed by the same clinicians who became famous for discovering it, and finds surprisin

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.

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

Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Processing Issues

Lindsey Biel · 510 pages

Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian

John Elder Robison · 304 pages

In his bestselling memoir, *Look Me in the Eye*, John Elder Robison wrote with honesty and dry wit about growing up with Asperger’s syndrome at a time when the diagnosis didn’t exist. By the time he was diagnosed at age forty, John had already developed a myriad of coping strategies that helped him achieve a seemingly normal, even highly successful, life. Now, in *Be Different*, he shares persona

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.

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

Eustacia Cutler · 227 pages

Lavender Clouds: Comics about Neurodivergence and Mental Health

Bex Ollerton · 144 pages

Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome

Liane Holliday Willey · 182 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

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

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

Jeannie Davide-Rivera

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

Daniel Tammet · 256 pages

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

Luke Jackson · 228 pages

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Andrew Solomon · 721 pages

Solomon’s startling proposition in *Far from the Tree* is that being exceptional is at the core of the human condition—that difference is what unites us. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down's syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, or multiple severe disabilities; with children who are prodigies, who are conceived in rape, who become criminals, and who are transgender. While eac

Shelter the Sea

Heidi Cullinan · 298 pages

Harmony

Carolyn Parkhurst · 278 pages

""Gorgeously written and patently original."--Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time "In this gripping, timely novel, Carolyn Parkhurst follows the Hammond family as they give up everything. and ultimately reveals the healing power of love."--Kim Edwards, the #1New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter "A fascinating tale of a family taking a crazy

Best Boy

Eli Gottlieb · 248 pages

A middle-aged autistic resident of a therapeutic community where he was sent as a young child rebels against changes in his environment by attempting to return to a family home and younger sibling he only partially remembers.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon · 240 pages

This is Christopher's murder mystery story. There are no lies in this story because Christopher can't tell lies. Christopher does not like strangers or the colours yellow or brown or being touched. On the other hand, he knows all the countries in the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7507. When Christohper decides to find out who killed the neighbour's dog, his mystery st

Mozart and the Whale: An Asperger's Love Story

Jerry Newport, Mary Newport, Johnny Dodd · 272 pages

House Rules

Jodi Picoult · 532 pages

Rules

Cynthia Lord · 200 pages

Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. She's spent years trying to teach David the rules-from "a peach is not a funny-looking apple" to "keep your pants on in public"-in order to stop his embarrassing behaviors. But the summer Catherine meets Jason, a paraplegic boy, and Kris

Rain Reign

Ann M. Martin · 256 pages

Rose Howard is obsessed with homonyms. She's thrilled that her own name is a homonym, and she purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein), which, according to Rose's rules of homonyms, is very special. Not everyone understands Rose's obsessions, her rules, and the other things that make her different – not her teachers, not other kids, and not her single father. When a stor