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25 Mar 2014, 9:14 pm

Im just re re reading though the eyes of alians by jasmine o Neil and am looking for more books like this.


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27 Mar 2014, 7:44 am

I enjoyed reading Aspergers in the Family by Lianne Halliday Wiley. I've still to get her book Pretending to be Normal. I haven't seen it cheap yet.

I will have a look for this book you've recommended too. Just looked it up on Amazon and it looks good.

I find it difficult to get books about autism written for or about women, but there are more being published than there used to be.



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27 Mar 2014, 4:49 pm

The Complete Guide to Aspergers Syndrome

Tony Attwood


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27 Mar 2014, 4:50 pm

Aspie Poet - A Collection Of 40 Poems

By Me! :)


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27 Mar 2014, 5:02 pm

Women From Another Planet? (question mark in the title). It's a book of essays written by autistic women.



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27 Mar 2014, 9:49 pm

There are many autism books I'd recommend:

Emergence: Labeled Autistic, [/i]Thinking in Pictures, Different Not Less, and The Autistic Brain by Temple Grandin

Nobody Nowhere and Somebody Somewhere[i] by Donna Williams

Following Ezra by Tom Fields-Mayer

All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome and Inside Asperger's Looking Out by Kathy Hoopmann

George and Sam by Charlotte Moore

Asperger's and Girls by Tony Attwood and Temple Grandin

Aspergirls by Rudy Simone

The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida

The Only Boy in the World by Michael Blastland

I'll add some more as I think of them. :)


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27 Mar 2014, 9:51 pm

"Look me in the eye" and "be different" by John Elder Robinson



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27 Mar 2014, 9:53 pm

FireyInspiration wrote:
"Look me in the eye" and "be different" by John Elder Robinson


Ah, yes, I would heartily recommend "Look Me in the Eye," too! How could I have forgotten the works of John Elder Robison? :D


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26 Dec 2014, 8:40 pm

FireyInspiration wrote:
"Look me in the eye" and "be different" by John Elder Robinson


Excellent choices; don't know why I gave the former to my Mom now that I've seen it.


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