" Guidebooks " about being an Aspie , from the Asp

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....standpoint...
Are there any of those ?
From the standpoint of an adult , especially , DX'd as an adult - I guess a young-adult book , written FOR a yyoung-adult Aspie , is acceptable .
I'm not a parent (and I suppose , it's likely , I never will be ) , so that's irrelevant to me , a parent's point of view .
Robson's " Look Me In..." is nice...But it's a bit too " personal (I've read it.) , and , he isn't DX'd til' rather late , and , he had managed to become successfull already .
Something that would make for a cetain " official " status/make people believe me - Written for general readers , not doctors , however .

Hi ASS-P - For a great range, there's always the following:
http://www.autistics.org/library/booklist.html

Well, that booklist is out of date (I should know: I wrote it, and I've been really slow in updating it), and not all of the things on there are geared at an autistic audience (most aren't).

Of those I can remember offhand, there's Your Life Is Not A Label (Jerry Newport), Autism - Asperger's and Sexuality: Puberty and Beyond (Jerry and Mary Newport), The Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships (Temple Grandin and Sean Barron), The People In A Girl's Life (Martha Kate Downey and Kate Noelle Downey -- that's a mother and daughter writing back and forth, and most of the advice is from the mother), Survival Strategies for People on the Autism Spectrum (Mark Fleisher), Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence (Luke Jackson), Build Your Own Life: A Self-Help Guide for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome (Wendy Lawson), Sex, Sexuality and the Autism Spectrum (Wendy Lawson), Friendships: The Aspie Way (Wendy Lawson), Asperger Syndrome Employment Workbook: An Employment Workbook for Adults with Asperger Syndrome (Roger Meyer), Ask and Tell: Self-Advocacy and Disclosure for People on the Autism Spectrum (edited by Stephen Shore), The Self-Help Guide for Special Kids and Their Parents (James Williams, with his mother Joan Matthews), Autism and Self-Improvement (Eric Chen).

I'm sure there's more by now.

...Frankly , I'm trying to revive this one...Make it easier to find.........

From your initial description, I'm having trouble discerning quite what you're looking for. Can't predict the effect a book will have on those you are trying to make understand about how it is for you. Your age isn't listed next to your name, so that doesn't clue me in (as to what to recommend), either. Anbuend provided list-were none of those the sort of book you seek ? Does it have to be written by an aspie ? There's much diversity within the autism spectrum, so any single source or author isn't going to cover all manifestations/expressions. More specifics (from you) seem called for, to narrow one's selections for suggestions.

If you don't mind it not being written by an aspie, I'd suggest "The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome" by Tony Attwood.

If nothing else, you can always peruse my site: http://lastcrazyhorn.wordpress.com - "Odd One Out: Reality with a refreshing slice of aspie."

Temple Grandin doesn't technically have AS, but I've read Emergence and part of Thinking in Pictures and liked them both.

Solutions for Adults with Asperger's Syndrome by Juanita P. Lovett isn't written by someone with AS but I found it very helpful. I also concur with Tony Attwood's book rec, it's by far the best.