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Anyone want to suggest books that could be helpful for young aspies? I benefited from reading the books Games People Play and Body Language at a young age. Where other aspies obsessed with computers, dinosaurs and outer space, I was studying the subconscious mind, and psychology in general. This I feel saved me from some of the difficulties aspies have understanding NT social behavior. Both of these books are very well-known, mass-produced works, and should be available in any bookstore with a psychology/self-help section. They might even be in your school library.

I got a lot of help from reading books like Queen Bees and Wannabes that helped document the social interactions of my peers in a way that I could understand (i.e., from the standpoint of a sociologist). Books that document evolutionary biology and its effects on humans also helped me out, like Jared Diamond's The Third Chimpanzeee.

I also benefited from the fact that my special interest of fifteen years is dogs, so I applied canine motivations and body language to humans and used that to help myself out.

I found "Pretending to be normal" by Liane Holliday Willey to be quite interesting. Liane herself is an aspie.

soz bout the late reply but freaks, geeks and asperger syndrome is a brill book, get it off amazon

shame, we gotta *sometimes* depend on books to help us fit in.


why don't we just say f**k the normal people?

Have you ever read the Temple Grandin books?

It depends on the level. Usually, schools would test for a level.

For boys: Secret Men's Business by John Marsden. It's a good read for teen boys, written by the same fellow who wrote a number of popular teen fiction books like Tomorrow, When the War Began. It is not specifically geared towards people with AS, but I think that can be a point in its favour.

Also, Marc Segar's e-book at http://www.autismandcomputing.org.uk/marc2.en.html

If actually like to say the opposite, a book that actually annoyed me was The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime it's supposed to be told by a boy with Aspergers, I actually found it insulting, I have never heard of a sixteen year old boy who differs his mood on the colour of the cars he sees every day on his way to school, yes there are probably a few younger people who would act as christopher does but not at sixteen. This just adds to my theory that the only people who can write in first person about Aspies has to be one, or know one incredibly well!