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…
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1. 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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- health
- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
"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
2. 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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3. The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
By: Grace Tame
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertai… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autistic spectrum disorder
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
"I learned something about the commodification of trauma that day [Tame's appearance on the ABC's Q&A programme], which is that you have to take things into your own hands. If you don't speak, people …"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
"I survived being Australian of the Year because I knew already that it wouldn't be a true reflection of my worth. I knew it would be ugly, at least in part. I came equipped with a glimpse of fame tha…"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
"I frowned at Scott Morrison deliberately because, in my opinion, he has done and assisted in objectively terrible things. No matter what your politics are, the harm that was caused under his governme…"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
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
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- biography
- health
- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
"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
5. 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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- biography
- memoir
- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
6. 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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- health
- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
"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
7. I Don't: The Case Against Marriage
By: Clementine Ford
4.13
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against mar… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. Tell Me Again
By: Amy Thunig
4.41
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
"Chapter 20-Part 2 "The hardest part of childhood with parents with these and are criminalised, isn’t necessarily life inside your home, it's how you are treated and mistreated by those outside your h…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
"I have been reading Amy Thunigs book. And this quote stood out to me. I really think this explains a lot about how AOD stigma and harmful prohibition drug policies that disproportionately criminalize…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
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
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- biography
- memoir
- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
"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
10. 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
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- memoir
- health
- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability
11. 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
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- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
12. 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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- biography
- memoir
- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability
13. UNMASKED
By: Ellie Middleton
4.24
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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- health
- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
14. The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD
By: Matilda Boseley
4.45
Format: 433 pages, ebook
Matilda Boseley’s adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a presc… read more
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- memoir
- health
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
15. Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat
By: Clara Törnvall
4.02
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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- memoir
- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
"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
16. How to Be Autistic
By: Charlotte Amelia Poe
3.93
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
An urgent, funny, shocking, and impassioned memoir by the winner of the Spectrum Art Prize 2018, Ho… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability
"my anxiety began to devour me."-Charlotte Amelia Poe, How to Be Autistic
"There's a common misconception that autistic people feel no empathy."-Charlotte Amelia Poe, How to Be Autistic
"I was doing well in all my classes, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. But I started to feel sick, every day."-Charlotte Amelia Poe, How to Be Autistic
"Our brains are sending sparks in different directions and sometimes they end up in the wrong place, but sometimes they end up in incredible places."-Charlotte Amelia Poe, How to Be Autistic
17. 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
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- health
- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
18. Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism
By: Joanne Limburg
4.11
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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- biography
- memoir
- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability
"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
19. 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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- biography
- memoir
- health
- lgbt
- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
20. Love & Autism
By: Kay Kerr
4.29
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
'Love has always intrigued me, in part because I have carried for a long time a feeling that I am d… read more
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- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
21. Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?
By: Pierre Novellie
4.56
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Why were the other kids at school obsessed with Britney Spears instead of The Goon Show? Why don't … read more
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- autistic spectrum disorder
- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
"Often when people react to new information about autism they end up accidentally correctly pointing out evidence of autism as opposed to evidence of its absence. They end up like someone throwing up …"-Pierre Novellie, Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?
