Books / websites that helped you?

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As an autistic, were there any resources such as books or sites on autism that helped you to function and solve some of the typically autistic problems?

Could you share what they were?

Tony Attwood's The Complete Guide To Asperger's Syndrome. This book is great and Tony is a leading authority on the subject. It is very comprehensive and is written for teachers so it has a ton of strategies. I have read it twice. It really helped me understand myself so much better and help me understand what Asperger's is and what it means to have it. Most of the coping strategies are for teachers and parents to use with kids but you can adapt many of them to yourself. I have not used them because over the years I have developed my own strategies that work for me but I have looked at them and they are very good. The book is very inexpensive if you get it on Amazon.

AS (yes that site) helped me get some general ideas about the disorder (what are some of the symptoms) from there a nice old guy at a local book store was able to help me when I asked I'm looking for a book on Aspergers as that is what I thought I had and prob more then likely would have been diagnosed as such if the changes to the DSM didn't take place
Tony attwood's Complete Guide to Aspergers was one of the first books he pulled off the shelf and told me to read. Furthermore these videos also help too. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSzM3MHfOA[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pp8jcQ97pY[/youtube]

Oh, I actually have the Complete Guide in pdf fornat - guess I better start reading. I'll try to watch those videos some time too, though I find it kinda hard to focus when something like this play.

Thanks you too!

- Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin

- The Autistic Brain, also by Temple Grandin

- Aspergirls by Rudy Simone

- The book Asperger's and Girls

- The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome by Tony Attwood

- The Temple Grandin movie

- The Asperclick forums

- WrongPlanet (here)

- WillowHope's AS videos on Youtube

- Look Me In the Eye by John Elder Robison

- Life, Animated by Ron Suskind

- A Friend Like Henry by Nuala Gardner

I actually did not care very much for Tony Attwood's book, but I know that a lot of people here like it very much. I find that he focuses too much on children, and doesn't take into account the problems of autistic adults. For me it was basically a guide to understand how most professionals view autism, stereotypes and all.

I can really recommend the books of Olga Bogdashina. Especially "Theory of Mind and the Triad of Perspectives on Autism and Asperger Syndrome". It is divided in four parts, all of which explore the exact same subject, but from different perspectives; the official definitions, the views of autistics themselves, the views of parents and newer research and theories.

'A survival guide for people with Asperger syndrome' by Marc Segar:
http://www.autismusundcomputer.de/marc2.en.html
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Autistic_Survival_Guide
(It may be a bit old, sometimes outdated, but still the most comprehensive, IMO. Newer is not always better.)

I particularly liked this book:
'A Field Guide to Earthlings: An autistic/Asperger view of neurotypical behavior' by Ian Ford

Most practical advices came from these two sources (at least to me), but there's a myriad of good books worth to read, just for pleasure. I enjoyed 'Thinking in Pictures' by Temple Grandin, 'The Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships' by Temple Grandin and Sean Barron, and 'Look Me in the Eye' by John Elder Robison.

Turns out I already have two of Bogdashina's books, too.

Many thanks everyone!