15 Top autistic spectrum disorder books like How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can by Ellie Middleton

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How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

By: Ellie Middleton

4.35

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

The latest feel-good book packed with practical tips from the author of the smash-hit book on ADHD,…

If you liked the autistic spectrum disorder plot in How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can by Ellie Middleton , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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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

Similar categories in Rudy Simone's Aspergirls book and Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • 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

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2. Sweetpea (Sweetpea, #1)

By: C.J. Skuse

3.90

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

The last person who called me Sweetpea ended up dead…I haven’t killed anyone for three years, and I… read more

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3. 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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4. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

Similar categories in Fern Brady's Strong Female Character book and Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • nonfiction
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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5. 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 Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • nonfiction
"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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6. 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 Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • nonfiction
  • adhd
"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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7. Clementine: Book Two

By: Tillie Walden

3.99

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Clementine and her new friends are rescued by an island community led by an enigmatic doctor called… read more

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8. 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 Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • nonfiction
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9. 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 Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • nonfiction
"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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10. Will I Ever Have Sex Again?

By: Sofie Hagen

4.05

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

'I'm hungry to go on this journey. Sofie is smashing and remoulding her readers understanding of se… read more

Similar categories in Sofie Hagen's Will I Ever Have Sex Again? book and Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • nonfiction
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11. Keedie

By: Elle McNicoll

4.69

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Set in Juniper five years before A Kind of Spark, Keedie is a powerful coming-of-age story that tho… read more

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's Keedie book and Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • autistic spectrum disorder
"I can't stand people who say they're good when they're not."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"I may be forced to mask, but they choose to wear numerous faces."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"You have to be the cartographer of your own heart. Make it into a map."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"She's like the sunflower. She'll find the sun no matter how much darkness other people try to put her in."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

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12. Dirty Laundry: Why Adults with ADHD Are So Ashamed and What We Can Do to Help

By: Richard Pink

4.07

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

An empowering and witty guide to banishing shame and living your fullest life with ADHD—plus tips f… read more

Similar categories in Richard Pink's Dirty Laundry: Why Adults with ADHD Are So Ashamed and What We Can Do to Help book and Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • nonfiction
  • adhd
"No one can hate themselves into a version of themselves that they like"

-Richard Pink, Dirty Laundry: Why Adults with ADHD Are So Ashamed and What We Can Do to Help

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13. 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 Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • nonfiction
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14. 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

Similar categories in Sara Gibbs's Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels book and Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • nonfiction
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15. Boy Friends

By: Michael Pedersen

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland’s brightest y… read more

Similar categories in Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends book and Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • nonfiction
"Ever feel like you were fated to be friends with someone? An alchemy in your meeting, instant fondness - part chemical, part kismet. This is how I've felt about every friend I've fallen in love with …"

-Michael Pedersen, Boy Friends

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16. Small Talk: 10 ADHD lies and how to stop believing them

By: Richard Pink

4.62

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A (self) love letter to those whose brains are beautifully and uniquely different’ Riyadh Khalaf |… read more

Similar categories in Richard Pink's Small Talk: 10 ADHD lies and how to stop believing them book and Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • nonfiction
  • adhd
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17. How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It)

By: Jessica McCabe

4.52

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In this honest, friendly, and shame-free guide, the creator of the award-winning YouTube channel Ho… read more

Similar categories in Jessica McCabe's How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It) book and Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • nonfiction
  • adhd
"Sure, I have limits, but as fellow YouTuber and ADHDer Hannah Hart told me, creativity loves limits."

-Jessica McCabe, How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It)

"We are acceptable humans as is, not once we stop having ADHD. You do not need to be fixed because you are not a broken version of normal."

-Jessica McCabe, How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It)

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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 Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • nonfiction
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19. 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 Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • nonfiction
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20. 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 Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • nonfiction
  • adhd
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21. This Motherless Land

By: Nikki May

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Wahala, a “vibrant” (Charmaine Wilkerson) retelling of Mansfield Park,… read more

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22. Think Again

By: Jacqueline Wilson

3.90

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

⭐ Whatever happened to beloved Girls series characters Ellie, Magda and Nadine? ⭐They're all grown … read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Wilson's Think Again book and Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

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23. Some Like It Cold

By: Elle McNicoll

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A big-hearted small-town romance from bestselling, award-winning author Elle McNicoll, Some Like it… read more

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's Some Like It Cold book and Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • autistic spectrum disorder
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24. Not for the Faint of Heart

By: Lex Croucher

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Beloved author Lex Croucher's second queer historical YA romance, with all the swoons, laughs, and … read more

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25. It's Not A Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult

By: Kat Brown

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Nobody should spend their life feeling defective. Everyone deserves to have a user manual to their … read more

Similar categories in Kat Brown's It's Not A Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult book and Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • nonfiction
  • adhd
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26. Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian's Guide to Autism

By: Pierre Novellie

4.57

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

Why were the other kids at school obsessed with Britney Spears instead of The Goon Show? Why don't … read more

Similar categories in Pierre Novellie's Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian's Guide to Autism book and Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • nonfiction
"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?: A Comedian's Guide to Autism

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27. The Hotel Avocado

By: Bob Mortimer

4.21

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of … read more

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28. How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

By: Ellie Middleton

4.35

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

The latest feel-good book packed with practical tips from the author of the smash-hit book on ADHD,… read more

Similar categories in Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can book and Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • nonfiction
  • adhd
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29. I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

By: Miranda Hart

4.16

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You. I know – what an intriguing title! Basically, I have ha… read more

Similar categories in Miranda Hart's I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You book and Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • nonfiction
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30. Women Living Deliciously

By: Florence Given

4.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this bold, illustrated guide, bestselling author and podcaster Florence Given encourages women t… read more

Similar categories in Florence Given's Women Living Deliciously book and Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • nonfiction
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31. Eat the World: A Collection of Poems

By: Marina Diamandis

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

For the first time, platinum-certified singer-songwriter Marina shares her singular observations of… read more

Similar categories in Marina Diamandis's Eat the World: A Collection of Poems book and Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

  • nonfiction

7 Top adhd books like How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can by Ellie Middleton

Transform Your Habits

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

Jenara Nerenberg

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Dirty Laundry: Why Adults with ADHD Are So Ashamed and What We Can Do to Help

Richard Pink

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Small Talk: 10 ADHD lies and how to stop believing them

Richard Pink

4.62

Transform Your Habits

How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It)

Jessica McCabe

4.52

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13 Top audiobook books like How Not to Fit In: An Unapologetic Guide to Navigating Autism and ADHD by Jess Joy

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

I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain

Emily Farris

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Maar je ziet er helemaal niet autistisch uit

Bianca Toeps

4.05

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