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Can anyone recommend any books that I can read on Aspergers?

My son diagnosed himself with "Freaks, Geeks, and Asperger's". Tony Attwood's book is good. Anything by Temple Grandin is good.

I really enjoyed the book "Look Me In The Eye" The authors name has escaped me at the moment, though. It's written by the brother of Burroughs, who wrote "Running with Scissors"

Don't you know that there is a BOOK section in the upper left hand corner of the Wrong Planet website?

"Look Me In The Eye" is by the author, John Elder Robison...that is listed in the BOOK section of this website, too.

I always have to recommend "The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome", or probably about anything else by Dr. Atwood. I didn't really understand myself until I read this book.

That is the book I'm in the middle of now. I bought it the day before I met with my Dr. who then also recommended the book.
Gee wiz, Wurd- any chance you'd go for an old guy like me?

How old are we talking? If the age in your blog is correct, we're some 9 years different, which is a little older than I usually go for (I wouldn't call you old), but I can make exceptions. But you'll have to woo me first. :p

Also, are you really serious? I can never tell on the Internet.

So, um, getting back to books. I've found several for parents and teachers, but none were really useful to me. The books for teachers are all pretty much about identifying ASD, and the ones for parents are all about dealing with tantrums, which is okay if that's what you need. The ones directed at Aspies themselves or at whoever in general are probably going to be the most useful. Dr. Atwood also wrote one for doctors, which is probably good if you can handle it. But his complete guide explains that it's basically the same thing in simpler terms. There are also a lot of autobiographies, but most of them seem to make out ASD to be some horrible thing that it isn't.

Anyway, I suggest you just look at any library or book store. If they have any, they'll probably have just about every useful book there is on the subject, because there aren't that many.

I also reccomend "Freeks, Geeks and Aspergers." I've read it, it's very helpful, even to Auties.

Freaks, Geeks and Aspergers is the best one, and its actually written by a 14 year old Aspie (he was 14 at the time, anyway).

For the females here (or for anyone seeking to understand AS females) this book is fantastic:

"Women From Another Planet"
by Jean Kearns Miller