Novels with autistic chatacters or by autistic authors?

I read Sally Rooney's Conversation with Friends this summer. I liked it though I wouldn't rave. What I did enjoy was the internal machinations of the main character. Her mind worked like mine. I decided towards the end that the author must be autistic as you couldn't portray that thinking without experiencing it. The character's not desribed as autistic, and the novels not about autism, but it was refreshing to read a novel where I related to the character and thinking so closely.

I then read her Normal People novel and again really related to some of the miscommnication mess the characters get in, so much like my own love life. Again it was refreshing to relate so much to both characters and writing style. Watching the TV series and it came across even more apparent to me. And I decided the title Normal People was no accident made by some undiagnosed autistic author but a clever play. That they are normal, just not neurotypical normal.

Anyway, I'd like to read more novels written by autistic authors. Anyone got recommendations? (And I don't like Sci-fi. Yeah, hang me, I'm clearly not a real autist!)

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