What is your favorite book about autism or a disability?

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Nobody Nowhere[i]and [i]Somebody Somewhere[/i][/i][/i]by Donna Williams. I have yet to read Like Color to the Blind and Everyday Heaven.

Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight is a nice self-help book about hypersensitivity.

My current favorite one is probably Ron Suskind's "Life, Animated." It's about an autistic boy, Owen, and how his family harnessed his all - encompassing interest in Disney movies in order to make him feel safe enough to engage with others. They called it "affinity therapy" and many parents with autistic children/family members who have read the book are warming to this approach to autism therapy. It's not about changing who a child is or forcing him to act "non-autistic" (although there is some discussion in the memoir of how Owen was trained out of stimming, just to trigger warn for that) but rather helping them navigate a world dominated by NTs in a way that feels safe and enjoyable for them.

I would have loved it if my parents had done "affinity therapy" with me rather than just automatically writing off anything I was interested in as "childish," "age - innapropriate," "immature," etc.