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.

It is perfectly valid to wait for your diagnosis before you start reading autistic books, you need to be ready and confident enough to explore your own autistic experience in more depth.

You are very welcome. There are a wealth of great autistic books to explore that you will hopefully really enjoy or resonate with.

As far as other recommendations, here is my list:

• Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults by Luke Beardon (not autistic author, probably neurodivergent in other ways, still a brilliant book though)
• Stim: An Autistic Anthology 
• Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham
• Loud Hands
• Explaining Humans by Camilla Pang
• Drama Queen by Sara Gibbs
• Spectrum Women

I know this is a long list, I could add more but I would be here for ages. I hope something on this list interests you. If not there are some other reading lists compiled by other autistics:

https://lizziehuxleyjones.com/#autbooks

https://aucademy.co.uk/books/

If you click on the list of stim toys on this page, there are also some recommendations for books.

I hope your reading is insightful and you learn more about your own autistic experience or resonate with other autistic people.

Thank you for taking the time to write such a comprehensive list. I’m going to have a look into the books you mentioned here, but I can say trailer away that I’m interested in the Chris Packham one. It’s nice to have a list to gradually work through. Thanks again.

You are very welcome. Chris Packham’s book is great, he writes a lot in third person and creates really vivid imagery.

 I hope you enjoy your reading.

You are very welcome. Chris Packham’s book is great, he writes a lot in third person and creates really vivid imagery.

 I hope you enjoy your reading.