Asperger and autism biography books

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HI I am looking for some good autism biography books. I have already read Donna Williams book and Iris Johansson Is there any more

Anyone more who'w read the iris johansson book "a different childhood" Because when I read it it feels just like its written about me, when I was younger I felt just the same way.. more?

There are absolutely heaps of them; there are also movies, such as the Temple Grandin Biopic.
I'm currently reading "Different not Less", which is edited by Temple Grandin, and has a bunch of stories from people on the spectrum.
John Elder Robison has a few books out about his experience as a "free range Aspie".
I started out with borrowing a few from my local public library, and now purchase books online from the book depository, who do free delivery worldwide.
Most modern libraries are much more "Aspie friendly" these days, as you can look up books on an online catalogue from home, you can reserve online, and you can even process the borrowing transaction on your own if you feel confident.

Just do a search of aspergers or autism in the subject line of a search from a library or online bookstore and you'll be amazed how many are out there, and reading them is great as it makes you feel less alone, and that although you are different, there are plenty of other different people not so different to yourself out there!

I completely agree with you though, and you'll probably find most Aspie and Autie biographies and autobiographies seem strikingly familiar, I know I have.

Tony Atwood's work is also a must have on your bookshelf - he really is the guru of Asperger's.

The Mind Tree: A Miraculous Child Breaks the Silence of Autism by Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay
How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move?: Inside My Autistic Mind by Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay
Beyond the Silence: My Life, the World and Autism by Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay and Lorna Wing

I read one of them but in German, think 2nd one, but I am not sure because of title (Der Tag, an dem ich meine Stimme fand).
Maybe its none of them.
Want to read the English ones.
He is severely autistic with IQ measured 185.

Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet

One of my favorites is Songs of Gorilla Nation by Dawn Prince-Hughes.
Also, just read Send in the Idiots; not my favorite, but worth reading.

Have read this one too.
Understand animals better than human beings as well, but in some context she was too high functioning for me to be able to relate.
Daniel Tammet was as well in some context too high functioning for me to relate.
Though partly relate.

Another book I have read :
Susanne Schäfer
Sterne, Äpfel und rundes Glas (German)
Stjärnor, linser och äpplen (Swedish)
I don't know, if it is available in English.
She is an autistic woman from Germany and got diagnosed age 25 by Christopher Gillberg in Sweden.

Temple Grandin: Thinking in Pictures.
Can relate a lot to perception.

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Pretending To Be Normal by Liane Holliday Wille

Parallel Play, by Tim Page

Tony Attwood and John Elder Robinson have some good novels, but I have some reserved criticism for Robinson. If you are female, Liana Holliday Willey. Or you could just ask the people here your questions!

Commoner the Vagabond is fiction but it is essentially the biography, trials & tribulations of an undiagnosed autistic man. It should be in the bookstores by the spring of 2014.

donna williams is actualy alleged to not be on the spectrum, a number of professors and specialists who have assessed her have said some pretty concerning stuff about her in fact,PM if woud like the sources tomorow; have had night meds so cant do anything concentration wise.
had felt in much agreement because had always felt there was something emulated about her without knowing the words for it,am able to recognise even the mildest aspies so its not a case of being unable to recognise an individual expression of autism.

another recommendation for temple grandin and tito mukhopadhyay.
if are interested in documentaries there are some good ones of both temple and tito [when he was a lot younger and more profoundly autistic],also some good ones about stephen wiltshire to,all of these are classic autistic but at different levels.

I goddamn hate them.

It's whoring to me.

Tito Mukhopadhyay's poetry is extraordinarily beautiful. Despite being labelled a "severe" autistic he has no trouble using metaphorical language, irony and communicates other qualities that autistic people (particularly ones labelled as low functioning) are supposed to be unable to express. Everything we take for granted with autism seems to be turned on it's head.

I love Songs of Gorilla nation