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Trying to find out how different adults feel their Asperger syndrome has effected them. Anyone care to share?

Daisy12345

I've been googling, trying to find out how different adults feel their Asperger syndrome has effected them, can anyone help? I find lots of lists of symptoms, but not really any stories about inderviduals. I want to know how normal/abnormal I am as someone with Asperger Syndrome, Dyslexia and Dyspraxia. Anyone care to share?

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  • There are a lot of biographies, mostly Jessica Kingsley Publications (the four page advert that generally comes with Communication. Some of them are American or Australian. Two I've found useful are Marc Fleisher's "Making Sense of the Unfeasible - My Life Journey with Asperger Syndrome" Published 2003, and Luke Jackson's "Freaks, Geeks & Asperger Syndrome - A user guide to adolescence" published in 2002.

    There is also Daniel Tammet's "Born on a Blue Day - a memoir of Asperger's and an Extraordinary Mind" Hodder & Stoughton 2006. This is interesting re colour associations.

    There's an American one I have read with mixed feelings: Kamran Nazeer - send in the idiots - stories from the other side of autism" Bloomsbury 2006. And another very upbeat American biography is "Look me in the Eye - my life with autism" by John Elder Robinson, 2007 Three Rivers Press, which I really enjoyed.

    The trouble with some of these books is they are individual and strong stories, and it isn't necessarily easy to relate to them if some characteristics have that "definately not me" feel. That's the trouble its so variable in so many ways. There could be a lot more about than gets published.

    Hope this helps.

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  • There are a lot of biographies, mostly Jessica Kingsley Publications (the four page advert that generally comes with Communication. Some of them are American or Australian. Two I've found useful are Marc Fleisher's "Making Sense of the Unfeasible - My Life Journey with Asperger Syndrome" Published 2003, and Luke Jackson's "Freaks, Geeks & Asperger Syndrome - A user guide to adolescence" published in 2002.

    There is also Daniel Tammet's "Born on a Blue Day - a memoir of Asperger's and an Extraordinary Mind" Hodder & Stoughton 2006. This is interesting re colour associations.

    There's an American one I have read with mixed feelings: Kamran Nazeer - send in the idiots - stories from the other side of autism" Bloomsbury 2006. And another very upbeat American biography is "Look me in the Eye - my life with autism" by John Elder Robinson, 2007 Three Rivers Press, which I really enjoyed.

    The trouble with some of these books is they are individual and strong stories, and it isn't necessarily easy to relate to them if some characteristics have that "definately not me" feel. That's the trouble its so variable in so many ways. There could be a lot more about than gets published.

    Hope this helps.

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