17 Best self help books like What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum by Annie Kotowicz

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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 …

"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

"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

If you liked the self help plot in What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum by Annie Kotowicz , here is a list of 17 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 Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • 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. 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 Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

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

3. Nerdy, Shy, and Socially Inappropriate: A User Guide to an Asperger Life

By: Cynthia Kim

4.09

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Cynthia Kim explores all the quirkyness of living with Asperger Syndrome (ASD) in this accessible, … read more

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4. 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

Similar categories in Pete Wharmby's Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it book and Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

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

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5. 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 Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

  • 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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6. 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

Similar categories in Bianca Toeps's Maar je ziet er helemaal niet autistisch uit book and Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • self help
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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 Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

  • 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. I Will Die on This Hill

By: Meghan Ashburn

4.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

There is a significant divide between autistic advocates and parents of autistic children. Parents … read more

Similar categories in Meghan Ashburn's I Will Die on This Hill book and Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

  • memoir
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
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9. 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 Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

  • biography
  • 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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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 Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

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

  • memoir
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • self help
Cover of Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum by Jennifer O'Toole

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

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • 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 Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • 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

Cover of Looking After Your Autistic Self: A Personalised Self-Care Approach to Managing Your Sensory and Emotional Well-Being by Niamh Garvey

14. 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 Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • disability
  • self help
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15. 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

Similar categories in Paige Layle's But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life book and Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

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

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16. 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 Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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17. The Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy

By: Stephanie Jones

4.51

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

"This is the book that would've saved me nine different therapists, decades of self-analysis, thous… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Jones's The Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy book and Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • self help
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18. 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 Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • self help
Cover of Is This Autism? (A Guide for Clinicians and Everyone Else) by Donna   Henderson

19. 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 Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
Cover of Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power by Devon  Price

20. Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power

By: Devon Price

4.33

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Learn to identify—and combat—Systemic Shame, the feeling of self-hatred and disempowerment that com… read more

Similar categories in Devon Price's Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power book and Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • self help
Cover of Taking Off the Mask by Hannah Louise Belcher

21. Taking Off the Mask

By: Hannah Louise Belcher

4.13

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

“I realised I had been camouflaging my whole life – I’d been trying to mask my autistic traits and … read more

Similar categories in Hannah Louise Belcher's Taking Off the Mask book and Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

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

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3.63

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4.35

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