Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor's Journey to Broadway's Biggest Stage
By: Mickey Rowe
4.28
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
My name is Mickey Rowe. I am an actor, a theatre director, a father, and a husband. I am also a man…
Want to Read $ 19.53"If your voice didn’t hold any power, people wouldn’t work so hard to make you feel so small."-Mickey Rowe, Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor's Journey to Broadway's Biggest Stage
"People want so desperately to fit in that they forget what makes them stand out. Be loud. Take up space. Our differences are our strengths."-Mickey Rowe, Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor's Journey to Broadway's Biggest Stage
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1. Raising Cubby: A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives
By: John Elder Robison
3.84
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad’s relationship with his equally off… read more
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2. Aspergirls
By: Rudy Simone
3.78
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Girls with Asperger's Syndrome are less frequently diagnosed than boys, & even once symptoms have b… read more
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"Kind, open and non-judgmental people do not "mutate" me as I like to call it, and these are the people I do want to be around."-Rudy Simone, Aspergirls
"When we're young we may be called "little professors," but when we get a bit older, we're more like "absent-minded professors."-Rudy Simone, Aspergirls
"If it weren‘t for Asperger‘s and obsessions there would be no Theory of Relativity, no Magic Flute, no Microsoft…and no Ghost Busters."-Rudy Simone, Aspergirls
"The trick is twofold: increase your self-confidence, and also, seek out the good in others, find whatever aspect of them you resonate with, no against."-Rudy Simone, Aspergirls
3. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
By: Julia Serano
4.26
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woma… read more
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"Rather than focusing on “shattering the gender binary,"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"[I]magine what would happen if, instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man “penetrates"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
4. Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism
By: Barry M. Prizant , Tom Fields-Meyer
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Essential reading for any parent, teacher, therapist, or caregiver of a person with autism: a groun… read more
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5. How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move: Inside My Autistic Mind
By: Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay
4.13
Format: 334 pages,
An astounding new work by the author of The Mind Treethat offers a rare insight into the autistic m… read more
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6. Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
By: Temple Grandin
4.12
Format: 652 pages, Paperback
Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock… read more
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7. The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
By: David Mitchell , Naoki Higashida , K.A. Yoshida
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy … read more
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8. In a Different Key: The Story of Autism
By: John Donvan , Caren Zucker
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Hardcover
Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagno… read more
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9. Odd Girl Out: Being Autistic in a Neurotypical World
By: Laura James
3.62
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
From early childhood, Laura James knew she was different, but it wasn't until her mid-forties that … read more
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10. NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
By: Steve Silberman
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
A New York Timesbestseller Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction A groundbreaking… read more
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11. A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself
By: Peter Ho Davies
3.79
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself traces the complex consequences of one of the most personal y… read more
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12. Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it
By: Pete Wharmby
4.35
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
It’s time to remake the world – the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for … read more
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"By the time I entered education in the late 1980s, schools were about as well adapted for my neurotype as a set of stairs is adapted for the use by a Dalek."-Pete Wharmby, Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it
13. The Electricity of Every Living Thing
By: Katherine May
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A life-affirming and perspective-shifting memoir of one woman's walk in the wilds as she comes to t… read more
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"Perhaps he has just never been at the wrong end of a dead-eyed bombardment of boy-band facts from a particularly obsessed teenage girl."-Katherine May, The Electricity of Every Living Thing
14. Maar je ziet er helemaal niet autistisch uit
By: Bianca Toeps
4.05
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Autisme: da's toch dat je weet dat 7 augustus 1984 op een dinsdag viel? Nou... nee. Bianca Toeps le… read more
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15. Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum
By: Michael McCreary
3.78
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Slaying autism stereotypes with stand-up, one joke at a time. Like many others on the autism spectr… read more
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"Having autism is a characteristic, not a character."-Michael McCreary, Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum
"I was diagnosed with autism at the age of five. I wasn't diagnosed as a comedian until much later."-Michael McCreary, Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum
16. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
By: Devon Price
4.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more
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"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
17. Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor's Journey to Broadway's Biggest Stage
By: Mickey Rowe
4.28
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
My name is Mickey Rowe. I am an actor, a theatre director, a father, and a husband. I am also a man… read more
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"If your voice didn’t hold any power, people wouldn’t work so hard to make you feel so small."-Mickey Rowe, Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor's Journey to Broadway's Biggest Stage
"People want so desperately to fit in that they forget what makes them stand out. Be loud. Take up space. Our differences are our strengths."-Mickey Rowe, Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor's Journey to Broadway's Biggest Stage
18. Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.14
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of… read more
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19. Southern Spells (Sweet Tea Witch Mysteries, #2)
By: Amy Boyles
4.24
Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition
Even the best laid plans of egg-laying chickens can go awry... All Pepper Dunn wants is a quiet … read more
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20. Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
By: Chloé Hayden
4.34
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
An empowering lived-experience guide to celebrating and supporting neurodivergence from 24-year-old… read more
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"Our identities make us who we are, and all aspects of our identities are important, including (maybe even specifically) our disabilities."-Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
21. We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation
By: Eric Garcia
4.14
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
“This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doc… read more
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22. Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum
By: Jennifer O'Toole
3.87
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
The face of autism is changing. And more often than we realize, that face is wearing lipstick. A… read more
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23. I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
By: Sarah Kurchak
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarah Kurchak is autistic. She hasn’t let that get in the way of pursuing her dream to become a wri… read more
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"The people who are trying to be on our side have reduced us to a mere calculation"-Sarah Kurchak, I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
"I am still, ten years later, very much a work in progress. But at least I know what I am working on now."-Sarah Kurchak, I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
"It's not like, as the term "masking" seems to evoke, there's a superficial layer of actions and appearances that I can remove and instantly improve my life. I don't have a mask I can remove; I have a…"-Sarah Kurchak, I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
24. Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels
By: Sara Gibbs
4.39
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
'It has taken me several years of exploration, but I am at a place now where I see autism as neithe… read more
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25. How to Be Human: An Autistic Man's Guide to Life
By: Jory Fleming
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable, unconventional narrative that examines the many ways to be fully human, told by t… read more
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"The one blanket statement that I can make about autism is that there is no blanket statement to be made about autism."-Jory Fleming, How to Be Human: An Autistic Man's Guide to Life
"Critical thinking is often very uncomfortable, at least in my opinion. You have to reevaluate yourself, which means that, heaven forbid, you might be wrong sometimes. Most people don't like neutral. …"-Jory Fleming, How to Be Human: An Autistic Man's Guide to Life
26. Aspergers and Adulthood: A Guide to Working, Loving, and Living With Aspergers Syndrome
By: Blythe Grossberg
3.49
Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition
Your Asperger's Road Map: Advice for the New Aspie Adult Congratulations! You're all grown up and g… read more
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27. Navigating Autism: 9 Mindsets For Helping Kids on the Spectrum
By: Temple Grandin
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Empowering strategies for anyone who works with children and teens on the spectrum. International b… read more
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"A common source of disappointment and frustration for parents is the letdown that happens soon after diagnosis. Parents seek diagnostic evaluations both to better understand their child and also to h…"-Temple Grandin, Navigating Autism: 9 Mindsets For Helping Kids on the Spectrum
28. But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life
By: Paige Layle
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Autism acceptance activist and TikTok influencer Paige Layle shares her deeply personal journey to … read more
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"We remain hidden, tucked away behind corporations aiming to change us, pushing supplements and instant cures into the hands of desperate parents looking to make our lives better. We're hidden behind …"-Paige Layle, But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life
29. How to Find a Four-Leaf Clover: What Autism Can Teach Us About Difference, Connection, and Belonging
By: Jodi Rodgers
4.38
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Beloved Love on the Spectrum star and disability rights advocate Jodi Rodgers shares stories from h… read more
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30. Late Bloomer: How an Autism Diagnosis Changed My Life
By: Clem Bastow
4.15
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Introducing a bold new voice in Australian nonfiction, Late Bloomer is a heartfelt coming-of-age me… read more
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- disability
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31. The Neurodiversity Edge: The Essential Guide to Embracing Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Neurological Differences for Any Organization
By: Maureen Dunne
4.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Expand your organization’s talent pool by actively recruiting valuable and creative neurodivergent … read more
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"for the pathfinders and those who empower them to discover the space where we each can belong"-Maureen Dunne, The Neurodiversity Edge: The Essential Guide to Embracing Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Neurological Differences for Any Organization
