This list, “6 Best Books By Autistic Authors,” consists of some of the best books written by autistic authors. The following books provide insightful analysis, information, and knowledge into the mind of an autistic individual. They also provide advice and suggestions on how one can live a meaningful and fulfilling life.
- The Autistic Brain: Helping Different Kinds of Minds Succeed
- Dear Diana: Diana’s Guide to Independent Living For Adolescents and Young Adults With Different Learning Styles and Special Needs
- Learning the Hidden Curriculum The Odyssey of One Autistic Adult
- Expect a Miracle: Understanding and Living with Autism
- Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age
- Beyond the Wall: Personal Experiences With Autism and Asperger Syndrome
1. The Autistic Brain: Helping Different Kinds of Minds Succeed
Born in 1947 to autism, a condition that affects 1 in 88 children, Dr. Temple Grandin compiles her life’s experiences in this book. Dr. Grandin is a professor and scientist of animal science at the Colorado State University. She is also an autism advocate. Dr. Temple Grandin was named as one of the top 10 college professors in the country.
In her compelling biography, Dr. Grandin gives us a brief understanding of how autism affects autistic individuals by sharing her brain scans to show her readers the common symptoms suffered by individuals with autism and she also provides us with a broader understanding of this condition, bringing in a singular perspective to the autism revolution.
This novel also provides various innovative theories of how autism is caused and the best way to treat it.
2. Dear Diana: Diana’s Guide to Independent Living For Adolescents and Young Adults With Different Learning Styles and Special Needs
This book is an improved version of various emails sent by the author, Diana Bilezikian, to her friends, and relatives about her life and the skills she learned throughout her educational journey.
After graduating from high school, Diana Bilezikian attended Chapel Haven, which was a program specifically for young adults with learning differences and special needs. In this book, the author provides a collection of material and advice on how an individual can lead a meaningful, fulfilling, and independent life.
In this book, Diana raises awareness about autism and also diminishes several stereotypes attached to this health condition.
3. Learning the Hidden Curriculum The Odyssey of One Autistic Adult
In this book, the author, Judy Endow perfectly portrays the various items of adult life while relating with her personal life, the experiences she faced, and how she learned to maneuver social interactions.
This impeccable novel by Endow sheds light upon various strategies such as Pause and Match, Laugh Along, Recognized and Expand, Black-and-White Thinking, and It Is Not Necessary to Report All My Truths. Learning the Hidden Curriculum The Odyssey of One Autistic Adult by Judy Endow inspires its readers to live more meaningful lives by creating their own social rules and norms.
The author draws in from her life’s personal experiences pertaining to certain substantial areas of adult life, helping her readers comprehend and understand the ability to assess certain situations where they can avoid social blunders on important social occasions or networking events.
4. Expect a Miracle: Understanding and Living with Autism
This book follows the inspiring and empowering life story of David and Sandy Petrovic, and how they refused to be discouraged by autism. Expect a miracle portrays autism from both Sandy and David’s perspectives.
As seen through Sandy’s perspective, this book explores pain, love, determinations, protectiveness, and anticipation of a loving mother. Readers get to witness Sandy’s support and unconditional love as a mother, and her unconditional support towards David as she helps her son bloom into his best self.
The story also portrays autism from David’s point of view, as readers get a chance to dive deep into the character’s life experiences of fears, vulnerabilities, failures, struggles, and how he overcomes every hurdle without losing faith in himself and his abilities.
The story perfectly depicts the triumphs and failures of David and his journey through life. Expect a Miracle: Understanding and Living with Autism is filled with crucial tips and lessons, allowing its readers, especially autistic readers, to find a solution to any challenge they might face and to make their own place in this world.
5. Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age
This book outlines how autism presents itself in various forms in women and how it impacts them throughout their life. Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder explore how women with autism experience diagnosis, education, childhood, adolescence, employment, friendships, sexuality, pregnancy, parenting, and aging. Sarah Hendrick provides valuable insight, and instructions to professionals who support females with autism, encouraging them to provide autistic females with the proper guidance to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives.
The book “Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age” consists of helpful questions and answers, covering a large area of subjects and topics asked by autistic females from various parts of the world.
This book by Sarah Hendrickx contains more than 120 questions in a practical format, which users can use to attain the answers to crucial questions without spending hours reading an entire chapter.
6. Beyond the Wall: Personal Experiences With Autism and Asperger Syndrome
This book is a courageous, inspiring, and heart-warming book written by Stephen M. Shore, and is quite different than the traditional autobiographies.
Being a highly informative novel with a combination of three different voices, Beyond the Wall draws on the professional and personal experiences of the author in an open and informative manner, making it a highly insightful book for individuals of different professional backgrounds as well as for autistic individuals.
Stephen M. Shore provides an autobiographical account, providing a detailed, and rare account of an individual with Asperger Syndrome.
