Collaborative guide to being an Aspie

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On the internet I can find a lot of guides for being a parent of someone with Autism, and even a few for being a child/teen on the spectrum. I can't find many guides however for being an Adult on the spectrum.

Soooo, I thought it could be interesting for us to try and create one collaboratively.

I have created a Google Doc to get us started, and we can discuss edits and suggestions in here.

The first task will be working out a good structure for the book, and what exactly needs to be covered.

So, are you talking about a sort of survival guide for adults with ASD?

Christ! I wouldn't even know where to start.

I'm 42 and still blundering through.

I've put up some *very arbitrary chapter titles to get us started

I don't know what to contribute. I've never really been successful as far as finding a career or getting a job (I work for my dad's company and he's helping me learn some on-the-job skills that might help when my parents are no longer around) so I don't know if I'm in any position to give advice.

Cool idea. Let me know if I could be of any help. I do enjoy editing.

I think its a good idea, but I fear that to air my views on Aspie survival would be mostly unhelpful, as they're somewhat radical and very specific to my own circumstances.

For example, I can offer little but sympathy to Aspies who need to find or keep a job, as my own solution has been to tough it out by whatever means was at my disposal, to live frugally, save up, and then quit as soon as possible before it killed me. For a young Aspie in the modern world, that's pretty useless advice.

Nonetheless, good luck with the project.

I think this is a good idea. Experienced people with ASD can share tips to give others the benefit of hindsight such as myself.

You should know about Marc Segar's Coping: A Surivival Guide For People With Asperger Syndrome. I think that his bullet-point writing style might be worth imitating in a collaborative project.

A newer and more collaborative guide to being an adult with Aspergers is a very good idea.

Yes I think he did a good job with that one.