Brilliant autistic book Neuroqueer Heresies by autistic academic Nick Walker

Thank you for the recommendation. I’m looking for some books to read on autism and the autistic experience as I haven’t read anything yet. I, perhaps wrongly, felt like I needed to wait for a diagnosis before doing any reading. It’s a year on from my diagnosis and I feel ready, after joining in here and exploring this website along with others, to do so. 

Perhaps this will be the book I will start with. Do you, or anyone else for that matter, have any other recommendations to go alongside this one, as a good place to start my reading?

Thanks in advance.

I would recommend reading the following by autistic people:

Temple Grandin - The Autistic Brain, thats a good book about autism and also herself, and worth reading about her as age means she was a child when autism wasn't really know enough, and far from how things are today. 

Chris Packham - Fingers in the Sparkle Jar
Dara McNulty -   The Young Naturalist

Bought those two as align closely, both as child and adult.

Two books I haven't bought yet but should be good based on what i know.

I can recommend Drama Queen by Sara Gibbs based on following her on twitter, though not bought it yet, though should.

Explaining Humans by Camilla Pang, recommended off twitter.

Also Pete Wharmby has a book coming out next March called Untypical, which should be good 

NT authors:

The Complete Guide to Aspergers by Tony Attwood, controversial author but this book was useful to me to understand high-functioning autism  

And in the autism self-help book category....

I strongly recommend Overcoming Anxiety & Depression on the Autism Spectrum by Lee A. Wilkinson.

Its CBT based, and helped me greatly, hard work and took me a long time as kept slipping back.  Also helped with frustration/anger, which it also covers, I'm sure many autistic people know those two well also. 

Much of the book is more about describing how our thoughts affect us, and how our beliefs affect our thoughts, its working on a better version of yourself that moves away from negative or harmful thoughts or just those that undermine yourself. 

Much of the book is more about describing how our thoughts affect us, and how our beliefs affect our thoughts, its working on a better version of yourself that moves away from negative or harmful thoughts or just those that undermine yourself.