19 must-read autistic spectrum disorder books like Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism by Barb Cook

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Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

By: Barb Cook

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Barb Cook and 14 other autistic women describe life from a female autistic perspective, and present…

If you liked the autistic spectrum disorder plot in Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism by Barb Cook , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder

By: Sarah Hendrickx

4.21

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

The difference that being female makes to the diagnosis, life and experiences of a person with an A… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hendrickx's Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder book and Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

  • health
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • disability
  • self help
"All the qualifications in the world dont mean a thing if you can't hold a conversation."

-Sarah Hendrickx, Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder

"I don't have the ability to process my feelings and articulate them; I just feel a whirl of emotions and physical sensations: dizziness, nausea, tight chest and overwhelming emotional pain..."

-Sarah Hendrickx, Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder

"Mental health conditions are the outcome of this refusal to admit limitations. Admission of limitations equates to failure for many women with autism. Admitting vulnerability and asking for concessio…"

-Sarah Hendrickx, Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder

"Real me only leaks out when the rote-learning system I have devised has insufficient data to maintain the facade. Real me is also allowed out in times of complete comfort and acceptance (it takes a r…"

-Sarah Hendrickx, Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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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

Similar categories in Rudy Simone's Aspergirls book and Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

  • health
  • feminism
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"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

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3. I Think I Might Be Autistic: A Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis and Self-Discovery for Adults

By: Cynthia Kim

3.63

Format: None pages, Paperback

What if instead of being weird, shy, geeky or introverted, your brain is wired differently? For adu… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Kim's I Think I Might Be Autistic: A Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis and Self-Discovery for Adults book and Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

  • health
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • self help

4. 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

Similar categories in Laura James's Odd Girl Out: Being Autistic in a Neurotypical World book and Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

5. 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

Similar categories in Steve Silberman's NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity book and Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

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6. Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

By: Jenara Nerenberg

3.84

Format: 244 pages, ebook

A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women—those with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensit… read more

Similar categories in Jenara Nerenberg's Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You book and Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

  • health
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • self help
"What happens when we stop pathologizing difference?"

-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

"Many women latch onto language from popular psychology, such as "panic attack," when often they are instead experiencing sensory overwhelm."

-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

"Despite what the words "attention deficit" imply, ADHD is not a deficit of attention, but rather a challenge of regulating it at will or on demand."

-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

"High stimulation is both exciting and confusing for people with ADHD, because they can get overwhelmed and overstimulated easily without realizing they are approaching that point."

-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

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7. 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

Similar categories in Devon Price's Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity book and Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

  • health
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • self help
"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

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8. 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

Similar categories in Chloé Hayden's Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After book and Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

  • memoir
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • self help
"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

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9. Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities

By: Nick Walker

4.37

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on h… read more

Similar categories in Nick Walker's Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities book and Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
"If you see anyone trying to narrow the definition of neuroqueer and trying to police who gets to use the tern, feel free to tell them that I said to stop acting like a fucking cop. The world needs mo…"

-Nick Walker, Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities

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10. 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

Similar categories in Eric Garcia's We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation book and Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

  • memoir
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • self help
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11. Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

By: Barb Cook

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Barb Cook and 14 other autistic women describe life from a female autistic perspective, and present… read more

Similar categories in Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism book and Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

  • memoir
  • health
  • feminism
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • disability
  • self help
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12. 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

Similar categories in Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum book and Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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13. What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

By: Annie Kotowicz

4.40

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

In this intimate and insightful mix of memoir and manifesto, Annie Kotowicz invites you inside the … read more

Similar categories in Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum book and Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

  • memoir
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • self help
"There are billions of us -- humans everywhere, with access to our own minds and no one else's, tossing one another songs and sentences to bridge the gap."

-Annie Kotowicz, What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

"I’ve noticed a communication pattern among autistics, myself included—we often try to express solidarity through similarity. “I’ve been through something like that"

-Annie Kotowicz, What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

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14. 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

Similar categories in Sarah Kurchak's I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir book and Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

  • memoir
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
"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

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15. Looking After Your Autistic Self: A Personalised Self-Care Approach to Managing Your Sensory and Emotional Well-Being

By: Niamh Garvey

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

'I no longer try to mask my autism; I now work to support my autism' It is a myth that autistic ch… read more

Similar categories in Niamh Garvey's Looking After Your Autistic Self: A Personalised Self-Care Approach to Managing Your Sensory and Emotional Well-Being book and Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • self help
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16. 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

Similar categories in Sara Gibbs's Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels book and Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • self help
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17. Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum, Second Edition

By: Sarah Hendrickx

4.53

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The difference that being female makes to the diagnosis, life and experiences of an autistic person… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hendrickx's Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum, Second Edition book and Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

  • womens
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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18. Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women

By: Sarah Bargiela

3.82

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Autism in women and girls is still not widely understood, and is often misrepresented or even overl… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Bargiela's Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women book and Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

  • feminism
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
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19. Self-Care for Autistic People

By: Megan Anna Neff

4.45

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Ditch the stigma, stop masking, and put yourself first with these 100+ exercises that reinforce the… read more

Similar categories in Megan Anna Neff's Self-Care for Autistic People book and Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

  • health
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • self help
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20. 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

Similar categories in Clem Bastow's Late Bloomer: How an Autism Diagnosis Changed My Life book and Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

  • memoir
  • health
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
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21. Is This Autism? (A Guide for Clinicians and Everyone Else)

By: Donna Henderson

4.71

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Though our understanding of autism has greatly expanded, many autistic individuals are still missed… read more

Similar categories in Donna Henderson's Is This Autism? (A Guide for Clinicians and Everyone Else) book and Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

  • health
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction

19 Top nonfiction books like Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism by Barb Cook

Transform Your Habits

Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Sarah Hendrickx

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Aspergirls

Rudy Simone

3.78

Transform Your Habits

I Think I Might Be Autistic: A Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis and Self-Discovery for Adults

Cynthia Kim

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

Jenara Nerenberg

3.84

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Transform Your Habits

We Should All Be Millionaires: A Woman’s Guide to Earning More, Building Wealth, and Gaining Economic Power

Rachel Rodgers

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

Jenara Nerenberg

3.84

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How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job

Sally Helgesen

4.11

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Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

Devon Price

4.44

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