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Has anyone found any truly helpful, informative AS-related books other than the standard "let's quote or cite someone else and put our name on it and make money from it" books? I'm sure they are out there, but there can't be too many of them. I have dug deeply looking for them and while I have found a few, they weren't impressive. My next will be the latest from Tony Atwood. I glanced at it at my school's library, but it was brand new and couldn't be checked out and removed from the library. And there's no way I was going to be able to read it in the so-called silence of the library.
I'm really interested in anything on adults that might've had AS as a child. I've only seen one mention of a study on it, and that was a video, but it didn't tell me much of anything new.

The thing I hate the most though, is that one book on AS that is "FREE," -- IF you jump through some marketing hoops and fill out a bunch of bogus demographic info, maybe even sign up for some B.S. products. The ad for the book is on almost every site I find when I do a search on AS. It really pisses me off.

Here are a couple of ideas:

Born on the Wrong Planet by Erika Hammerschmidt
Your Life is not a Label by Jerry Newport

If you cannot get those books at your library, check into Inter-library Loan (ILL). It is worth the wait.

I like Temple Grandin's book, Thinking in Pictures.

"Pretending to be Normal" by Liane Holliday Willey. She is SO me! The very title was what did it. The book lived up to my expectations.

Oh - in the "Revenge is sweet" department, murder mystery "Death of a Thousand Cuts" by Barbara D'Amato. The victim - knifed both in the opening chapters of the book and (character assassinated) throughout is a very thinly disguised Bruno Bettelheim. "Refrigerator mothers" in a pig's (MC variety) eye!

I'm currently reading Solutions For Adults With Asperger Syndrome by Juanita P. Lovett, PH.D. It's fairly new (2005) but I haven't really read it enough to really comment on if it's good or not.

For some great suggestions!