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
The Kiss Quotient by Helen  HoangThe Bride Test by Helen  HoangThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionFlowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Task 13 #ReadHarder 2019
235 books — 64 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
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



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

S.L. Coelho
Autism, is part of my child, it's not everything he is. My child is so much more than a diagnosis. ...more
Sandra L Westendorf-Coelho, The World According to August - One Good Friend

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