By: Sarah Kurchak
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…
Want to Read $ 9.99"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 multiheaded, deeply embedded parasite. It's probably killing me, but it's also kept me alive, and I don't know how much I can remove and still survive. I'm not completely sure where it ends and I begin at this point."-Sarah Kurchak, I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
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By: Sarah Hendrickx
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
The difference that being female makes to the diagnosis, life and experiences of a person with an A… read more
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"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
By: Rudy Simone
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
By: Tony Attwood
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome is the definitive handbook for anyone affected by Asperge… read more
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"Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the comment that not only are universities…"-Tony Attwood, The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome
By: Cynthia Kim
Format: None pages, Paperback
What if instead of being weird, shy, geeky or introverted, your brain is wired differently? For adu… read more
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By: John Elder Robison
Format: None pages,
"I believe those of us with Asperger's are here for a reason, and we have much to offer. This book … read more
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By: Laura James
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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By: Steve Silberman
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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By: Pete Wharmby
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
By: Jenara Nerenberg
Format: 244 pages, ebook
A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women—those with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensit… read more
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"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
By: Katherine May
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
By: Bianca Toeps
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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By: Devon Price
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
By: Chloé Hayden
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
By: Nick Walker
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
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"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
By: Eric Garcia
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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By: Barb Cook
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Barb Cook and 14 other autistic women describe life from a female autistic perspective, and present… read more
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By: Jennifer O'Toole
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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By: Annie Kotowicz
Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition
In this intimate and insightful mix of memoir and manifesto, Annie Kotowicz invites you inside the … read more
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"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
By: Sarah Kurchak
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
By: Niamh Garvey
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
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By: Sara Gibbs
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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By: Ellie Middleton
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
Brought to you by Penguin. Whether you are neurodivergent, suspect you might be, or want to be a… read more
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By: Sharon daVanport
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A rare and diverse collection of autistic voices that highlights to parents the unique needs of gir… read more
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By: Simon Baron-Cohen
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autis… read more
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By: Jory Fleming
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
By: Paige Layle
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
By: Sarah Bargiela
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Autism in women and girls is still not widely understood, and is often misrepresented or even overl… read more
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By: Clara Törnvall
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
Varför skrev poeten Emily Dickinson dikter om havet utan att någonsin ha sett det, varför är Underl… read more
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"But deficits and disabilities only exist in relation to an environment where some other way of functioning has been chosen as the yardstick. An autistic person - or one with any form of otherness - o…"-Clara Törnvall, Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat
"Yet the autistic woman is not masking with the intention of being deceitful. Her true self is invisible even to her own person. She is masking to fit in, and doing so unconsciously. Often, she doesn'…"-Clara Törnvall, Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat
By: Joanne Limburg
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
It seemed to me that many of the moments when my autism had caused problems, or at least marked me … read more
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"Guilt attaches to an act, but shame attaches to a person."-Joanne Limburg, Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism
"We are, all of us, striving constantly to pass those normality exams, to take our raw and boundless selves and squash them into the forms of neater and nicer girls."-Joanne Limburg, Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism
By: Pete Wharmby
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This book isn't a memoir. It is a love letter to the phenomenon of autistic hyperfixation.' In W… read more
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By: Jess Joy
Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition
’The lack of information around how ADHD and autism shows up in adults means that many of us have b… read more
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