12 Best autistic spectrum disorder books like The Autistic Trans Guide to Life by Yenn Purkis

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The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

By: Yenn Purkis

3.56

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

'A must-read!' FINLAY GAMESThis essential survival guide gives autistic trans and/or non-binary adu…

If you liked the autistic spectrum disorder plot in The Autistic Trans Guide to Life by Yenn Purkis , here is a list of 12 books like this:

1. 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 Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

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2. All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

By: Foz Meadows

4.20

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to Foz Meadows's A Strange and Stubborn Endurance , a sultry political & romantic fan… read more

Similar categories in Foz Meadows's All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2) book and Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

  • lgbt
  • queer
"[Markel signing] '...If I'd just been a little sharper--' 'You're plenty sharp, Markel,' I said, smiling at him. 'Like an oddly maternal knife."

-Foz Meadows, All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

"I can feel the pair of you mother-henning me from here,' Vel called from the bathroom door. 'It smacks of conspiracy.' 'You'll be cared about and you'll like it!' Cae called back."

-Foz Meadows, All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

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3. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

Similar categories in Mosab Abu Toha's Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza book and Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

  • nonfiction
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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4. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

Similar categories in Justin Torres's Blackouts book and Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

  • lgbt
  • queer
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5. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

Similar categories in Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms book and Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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6. Our Hideous Progeny

By: C.E. McGill

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

It is not the monster you must fear, but the monster it makes of men. . . For readers of Circe o… read more

Similar categories in C.E. McGill's Our Hideous Progeny book and Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

  • lgbt
  • queer
"We had built here, in this half-ruined boat house on the edge of the Moray Firth, a temple to our own strange gods- to Chemistry and Anatomy and Electricity."

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

"There is something romantic about feeding a predator from the palm of your hand, I think- a creature which might bite you if it chooses, but chooses not to. But how does one turn such awful beauty to…"

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

"I will always hold dear to my heart that fact that I was the first to see those golden eyes open, to see its reptilian pupils narrow and focus on my own- for in those eyes I saw, for the first time, …"

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

"I suppose that is why it often makes me sad to read about history, or even natural history, as you do; I cannot help but think of everyone whose tale cannot fit in one book, those poor creatures who …"

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

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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 Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

  • self help
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • queer
"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. Flip the Script

By: Lyla Lee

3.57

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

The first rule of watching K-dramas: Never fall in love with the second lead. As an avid watche… read more

Similar categories in Lyla Lee's Flip the Script book and Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

  • lgbt
  • queer
"People see queerness as such an anomaly, as if there aren't that many of us. But what if we're actually the norm, and we're all just in hiding?"

-Lyla Lee, Flip the Script

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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 Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

  • 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

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

10. 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 Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

  • lgbt
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • queer
"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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11. 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 Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

  • 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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12. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.46

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more

Similar categories in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs book and Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • disability
  • queer
"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

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13. 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 Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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14. How Not to Fit In: An Unapologetic Guide to Navigating Autism and ADHD

By: Jess Joy

4.25

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

Similar categories in Jess Joy's How Not to Fit In: An Unapologetic Guide to Navigating Autism and ADHD book and Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • self help
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15. The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

By: Yenn Purkis

3.56

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

'A must-read!' FINLAY GAMESThis essential survival guide gives autistic trans and/or non-binary adu… read more

Similar categories in Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life book and Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

  • self help
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • queer
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16. We're All Neurodiverse

By: Sonny Jane Wise

3.88

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

"Neurodiversity has helped me understand myself and provided a sense of relief that I'm a whole neu… read more

Similar categories in Sonny Jane Wise's We're All Neurodiverse book and Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • queer
"Identifying as neurodivergent isn't just another label; it's also an identity, it's a reclamation, it's a song. When we call ourselves neurodivergent, we are reclaiming our differences that society c…"

-Sonny Jane Wise, We're All Neurodiverse

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17. The T in LGBT: everything you need to know about being trans

By: Jamie Raines

4.59

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Hey, I'm Jamie, a 29-year-old trans guy from the UK. I've been transitioning for 12 years now after… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Raines's The T in LGBT: everything you need to know about being trans book and Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

  • self help
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Sensory: Life on the Spectrum by Bex Ollerton

18. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum

By: Bex Ollerton

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A colorful and eclectic comics anthology exploring a wide range of autistic experiences—from diagno… read more

Similar categories in Bex Ollerton's Sensory: Life on the Spectrum book and Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • mental health
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19. Spectrums

By: Maxfield Sparrow

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Solely written by trans people on the spectrum, this collection of personal stories foregrounds the… read more

Similar categories in Maxfield Sparrow's Spectrums book and Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • queer
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20. Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults

By: Gratton

4.34

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Providing advice on how professionals working with autistic trans youth and adults can tailor their… read more

Similar categories in Gratton's Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults book and Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • queer
Cover of Trans and Autistic: Stories from Life at the Intersection by Noah  Adams

21. Trans and Autistic: Stories from Life at the Intersection

By: Noah Adams

3.72

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The first book to foreground the voices and experiences of autistic trans people, this collection o… read more

Similar categories in Noah Adams's Trans and Autistic: Stories from Life at the Intersection book and Yenn Purkis's The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • queer

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4.74

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Devon Price

4.44

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Chloé Hayden

4.34

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4.37

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Pete Wharmby

4.35

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Jenara Nerenberg

3.84

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Emily Farris

3.67

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Bianca Toeps

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