19 Best nonfiction books like Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults by Luke Beardon

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Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

By: Luke Beardon

3.80

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

One of the biggest challenges if you are an autistic adult (or suspect you might be) is navigating …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults by Luke Beardon , here is a list of 19 books like this:

1. 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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2. 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

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3. My Hygge Home: How to Make Home Your Happy Place

By: Meik Wiking

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller The Little Book of Hygge, helps you turn your home into… read more

Similar categories in Meik Wiking's My Hygge Home: How to Make Home Your Happy Place book and Luke Beardon's Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

  • self help
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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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 Luke Beardon's Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

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

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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 Luke Beardon's Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

  • self help
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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 Luke Beardon's Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

  • self help
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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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 Luke Beardon's Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

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

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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 Luke Beardon's Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

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

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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 Luke Beardon's Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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. 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 Luke Beardon's Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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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 Luke Beardon's Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • 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. 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 Luke Beardon's Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

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

Similar categories in Ellie Middleton's UNMASKED book and Luke Beardon's Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

  • self help
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. 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 Luke Beardon's Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Clara Törnvall's Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat book and Luke Beardon's Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

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

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16. 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 Luke Beardon's Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

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

Similar categories in Megan Anna Neff's Self-Care for Autistic People book and Luke Beardon's Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

  • self help
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Girl Unmasked: The Sunday Times Bestseller: How Uncovering My Autism Saved My Life

By: Emily Katy

4.72

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

'Emily's moving book is a powerful testimony that shines a light on the continued failure of health… read more

Similar categories in Emily Katy's Girl Unmasked: The Sunday Times Bestseller: How Uncovering My Autism Saved My Life book and Luke Beardon's Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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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

Similar categories in Clem Bastow's Late Bloomer: How an Autism Diagnosis Changed My Life book and Luke Beardon's Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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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 Luke Beardon's Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

  • self help
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

By: Luke Beardon

3.80

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

One of the biggest challenges if you are an autistic adult (or suspect you might be) is navigating … read more

Similar categories in Luke Beardon's Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults book and Luke Beardon's Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

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

15 must-read audiobook books like Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults by Luke Beardon

Transform Your Habits

My Hygge Home: How to Make Home Your Happy Place

Meik Wiking

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it

Pete Wharmby

4.35

Transform Your Habits

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

Jenara Nerenberg

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Maar je ziet er helemaal niet autistisch uit

Bianca Toeps

4.05

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9 Best audiobook books like Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You by Jenara Nerenberg

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

Transform Your Habits

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

Sally Helgesen

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

Devon Price

4.44

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