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
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieMore Happy Than Not by Adam SilveraThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasEverything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
MG/YA/NA #ownvoices
485 books — 441 voters

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonWonder by R.J. PalacioOut of My Mind by Sharon M. DraperHating Jesse Harmon by Robin MimnaPuddle Jumping by Amber L.  Johnson
Disability-positive stories
503 books — 334 voters

The Kiss Quotient by Helen  HoangFailure to Communicate by Kaia SønderbyOtherbound by Corinne DuyvisOn the Edge of Gone by Corinne DuyvisQueens of Geek by Jen  Wilde
Ownvoices OR Autistic Authored Fiction
130 books — 55 voters
Flying to the Light by Elyse SalpeterHating Jesse Harmon by Robin MimnaFlying to the Fire by Elyse SalpeterThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonTrueman Bradley - Aspie Detective by Alexei Maxim Russell
YA Novels with Special Needs Characters
157 books — 147 voters


Nicholas Sparks
A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing ...more
Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

Elle McNicoll
She's functioning - don't make that face, it's a perfectly appropriate medical term - she's functioning and I thought people might like to see that. She has it mild, Keedie. Like you." "It's mild to you!" Keedie shouts and I flinch, not used to hearing her raise her voice. "It's mild to you and every other heartless soul in this village, Nina, it's not mild to me. It's not mild to Addie! It's mild to you because we make it so, at great personal cost! ...more
Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

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