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
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
50 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

A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicollAct Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia HibbertThe Kiss Quotient by Helen  HoangSomething More by Jackie KhaliliehOn the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis
Autism Own Voices Fiction
110 books — 90 voters

Asperger's on the Inside by Michelle VinesNeuroTribes by Steve SilbermanThe Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome by Tony AttwoodPretending to be Normal by Liane Holliday WilleyThe Rhino Crash by Nick Newman
Adult Autism Spectrum Disorder books
57 books — 43 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
412 books — 185 voters


Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally. ...more
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Helen  Hoang
This crusade to fix herself was ending right now. She wasn't broken. She saw and interacted with the world in a different way, but that was her. She could change her actions, change her words, change her appearance, but she couldn't change the root of herself. At her core, she would always be autistic. People called it a disorder, but it didn't feel like one. To her, it was simply the way she was. ...more
Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

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