Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Autism (or Autistic) Spectrum Disorder - ASD - is a developmental disorder that affects communication and behavior. Although autism can be diagnosed at any age, it is said to be a “developmental disorder” because symptoms generally appear in the first two years of life.

Autism is known as a “spectrum” disorder because there is wide variation in the type and severity of symptoms people experience and display dependant on circumstances. ASD occurs in all ethnic, racial, and economic groups. Although ASD can be a lifelong disorder, treatments and services can improve a person’s symptoms and abilit
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
Look Me in the Eye
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism
Strong Female Character
Born on a Blue Day
Rules
Aspergirls
We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation
Friendship Skills for Neurodivergent Adults by Caroline MaguireThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonAspergirls by Rudy SimoneNo You Don't by Sparrow Rose JonesTwirling Naked in the Streets and No One Noticed by Jeannie Davide-Rivera
Neurodiversity Books
310 books — 306 voters

Autistic blessings and Bipolar me. by E.J. PlowsAsperger's on the Inside by Michelle VinesThe Reason I Jump by Naoki HigashidaThe Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Autism & Aspergers
49 books — 54 voters
The Kiss Quotient by Helen  HoangOn the Edge of Gone by Corinne DuyvisA Kind of Spark by Elle McNicollUnmasking Autism by Devon  PriceQueens of Geek by Jen  Wilde
Books by Actually Autistic Authors
486 books — 277 voters

ALS Saved My Life ... until it didn't by Jenni Kleinman BerebitskyHyperbole and a Half by Allie BroshKindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldEl Deafo by Cece Bell
Books Written by Disabled Authors
409 books — 175 voters
The Kiss Quotient by Helen  HoangNeanderthal Seeks Human by Penny ReidSomething More by Jackie KhaliliehThe Heart Principle by Helen  HoangThe Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis Graves
Neurodivergent Romance Heroines
187 books — 198 voters


Paul  Collins
Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg. ...more
Paul Collins

Temple Grandin
If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.
Temple Grandin

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