Books on autism and adhd.

Unmasked by Ellie Middleton is amazing!!

UNMASKED: The Ultimate Guide to ADHD, Autism and Neurodivergence: Amazon.co.uk: Middleton, Ellie: 9780241651988: Books

Best resources I used were on YouTube

OrionKelly.com.au.   He is a great person to watch. His topics educate. Helped me learn about autism/ADHD quickly!!

Also,

MomontheSpectrum - Taylor Heaton.  Fabulous info shared. Really great even though I am much older than her!!! Educational, funny, very informative topics.

I loved the how i'm not just a lazy waste of space. Whenever I say why I have not been able to do anything I always just laugh it off and say joking because I am lazy, but I think I still believe it and it is hard to change that.

I read unmasking autism. I liked it. Need to reread it. The problem I have is I am an a**hole, if I just let go I find peoples weaknesses and just rip them to shreds it is not intentional but I can't help it, but I also try to be a good person when I hear other people talk they feel like a**holes and not very nice people and I try to avoid them. I guess I just need to find nice people to talk to. One day. It's a journey. Focus on the process not the destination.

Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults by Luke Beardon is a brilliant book. It has loads of advice for adapting your environment to suit your neurotype.

Seconding Devon Price. 

Adding

the spectrum girl's survival guide: how to grow up awesome and autistic by Siena Castellon. It's for teens, written by teen. I'm not a teen but it was the only library book on autism that wasn't already checked out at the time. I wish I'd had that to read when I was that age. 

I found Unmasking Autism by Devon Price very helpful- the author is an autistic psychologist so he really knows what he's talking about, and there are some little exercises in it to help figure out the details of how your autism works.

How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis is good if you have trouble getting things done at home due to executive dysfunction. I haven't tried too many of the things in there yet but even just reading someone else's words about how I'm not just a lazy waste of space made a difference.

Looking After Your Autistic Self by Niamh Garvey has loads of advice on managing sensory issues and emotional regulation too.

I detect a joke. But no, not literally being a swarm of bees no, sadly no hibernation for me even though I do feel the seasonal fatigue this time of year. Thankfully the SAD passes with time, I just have to distract myself with the sparkly lights, tinsel, and hot chocolate until then.

You are very welcome! 

This is perfect thank you.

Apparently the book ‘ADHD: An A To Z’ is a good read. It is written by an ADHDer and includes some useful tips.

I hope this helps!

Thanks. Shouldn't you be hivernating? I thought bees hivernated in winter? I could be wrong. Sorry, just thought of this and thought I would say it.

I honestly wouldn't read any book about autism that isn't new this year or isn't written by an actually autistic person. 

A lot of NT's and so called "experts" still base their info from out of date garbage they heard in the 70s-90s or worse from what they were told by by others who got their knowledge from the 70s-90s. There's the danger of relying of "authority" too, doesn't matter if someone has a PHD, if what they have to say about autistm isn't based on current knowledge in the last 5 years at the oldest, then what they have to say is not helpful.