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Rooster001

Hi everyone, this is my first post here.

I’m looking for book recommendations that could help me understand and support my autistic family members better. Both of my parents are autistic, and my sister is too, and I’m trying to learn healthier ways of communicating and navigating some of the challenges that come up in our relationships.

I’m also starting to wonder whether I might be on the spectrum myself. I relate to a lot of traits and experiences I’ve been reading about, so I’d love any book suggestions that could help me explore that possibility in a grounded, informed way.

If you know any books—whether practical guides, personal accounts, or science‑based explanations—that you’ve found genuinely helpful, I’d really appreciate your recommendations.

Thanks for having me here. 

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  • I can recomend Gina Rippon's books, The Gendered Brain and The Lost Girls of Autism, they're both more at the scientific end rather than personal experience ones. But I think that The Lost Girls of Autism, gives a much better understanding of how autism differs in some women and some men too.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    I can recomend Gina Rippon's books, The Gendered Brain

    I worked my way through about a third of this book and there is barely a reference to autism / aspergers or neurodiversity.

    A search shows "autism" is only mentioned 4 times in the body of the book and "autistic" three times, each of these just in passing.

    From the first 5 chapters (about a third of the book) I'm starting to think that this book is becoming an analogy to the saying that "to a person with a hammer, every issue looks like a nail". Every theory, study, process etc seems biassed against women, inadequate or misguided. Many indeed are but I think these were cherry picked to make a point.

    Maybe the book changes tone but I surfed through the other chapters and it seems to keep the same tone.

    There is a lot of interesting material about sexual bias against women through it but I think as a book relating to autism in women it is not worth the time. - just my opinion based on a third of the book.

    I started writing a more detailed review but stopped when I realised it was more about complaining about sexism than neurodiversity. For reference I stopped reading in depth in chapter 6.

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    I can recomend Gina Rippon's books, The Gendered Brain

    I worked my way through about a third of this book and there is barely a reference to autism / aspergers or neurodiversity.

    A search shows "autism" is only mentioned 4 times in the body of the book and "autistic" three times, each of these just in passing.

    From the first 5 chapters (about a third of the book) I'm starting to think that this book is becoming an analogy to the saying that "to a person with a hammer, every issue looks like a nail". Every theory, study, process etc seems biassed against women, inadequate or misguided. Many indeed are but I think these were cherry picked to make a point.

    Maybe the book changes tone but I surfed through the other chapters and it seems to keep the same tone.

    There is a lot of interesting material about sexual bias against women through it but I think as a book relating to autism in women it is not worth the time. - just my opinion based on a third of the book.

    I started writing a more detailed review but stopped when I realised it was more about complaining about sexism than neurodiversity. For reference I stopped reading in depth in chapter 6.

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