Autism Awareness Week 19-23 April 2021

ACU Library is delighted to be involved in ACU’s (first-ever) Autism Awareness Week. Visit our campus libraries to find out more and check out this list of ebooks by autistic authors.

• Autism and the police: practical advice for officers and other first responders by Andrew Buchan (2020)
• The spectrum girl’s survival guide: how to grow up awesome and autistic by Siena Castellon (2020)
• Autism in heels: the untold story of a female life (2018)
• Spectrum women: walking to the beat of autism edited by Barb Cook and Dr Michelle Garnett (2018)
• Stim – an autistic anthology edited by Lizzie Huxley-Jones (2020)
• I overcame my autism and all I got was this lousy anxiety disorder: a memoir by Sarah Kurchak (2020)
• Funny, you don’t look autistic: a comedian’s guide to life on the spectrum by Michael McCreary (2019)
• How to be autistic by Charlotte Amelia Poe (2019)
• The awesome autistic go-to guide: a practical handbook for autistic teens and tweens by Yenn Purkis and Tanya Masterman (2020)
• Our autistic lives: personal accounts from autistic adults aged 20-70+ edited by Alex Ratcliffe (2020)
• Congratulations: it’s Asperger syndrome by Jen Birch (2003)
• The asperkid’s game plan: extraordinary minds, purposeful play… ordinary stuff by Jennifer O’Toole (2014)
• Making sense of the unfeasible: my life journey with Asperger Syndrome by Marc Fleisher (2003)
• Survival strategies for people on the autism spectrum by Marc Fleisher (2005)
• The way I see it: a personal look at autism and Asperger’s by Temple Grandin (2008)
• The feeling’s unmutual: growing up with Asperger Syndrome (undiagnosed) by Will Hadcroft (2004)
• Asperger Syndrome, the universe and everything: Kenneth’s book by Kenneth Hall (2000)
• A user guide to the GF/CF diet for autism, Asperger syndrome and AD/HD by Luke Jackson (2002)
• Crystalline lifetime: fragments of Asperger Syndrome by Luke Jackson (2006)
• Concepts of normality the autistic and typical spectrum by Wendy Lawson (2008)
• Sex, sexuality and the autism spectrum by Wendy Lawson and Glenys Jones (2005)
• Friendships the aspie way by Wendy Lawson and Emma Wall (2006)
• Build your own life self-help guide for individuals with Asperger Syndrome by Wendy Lawson (2003)
• ASPoetry illustrated poems from an aspie life by Wendy Lawson and Alice Blaes Calder (2006)
• Living and loving with Asperger syndrome family viewpoints by Patrick McCabe (2003)
• Exact mind and artist with asperger syndrome by Peter Myers (and Simon Baron-Cohen) (2004)
• Aquamarine blue 5 personal stories of college students with autism edited by Dawn Prince-Hughes (2002)
• Expecting Teryk an exceptional path to parenthood by Dawn Prince-Hughes (2005)
• Finding a different kind of normal misadventures with Asperger syndrome by Jeanette Purkis (2006)
• Discovering my autism apologia pro vita sua (with apologies to Cardinal Newman) by Edgar Schneider (1999)
• Living the good life with autism by Edgar Schneider (2003)
• Living well on the spectrum how to use your strengths to meet the challenges of Asperger syndrome/high-functioning autism by Valerie Gaus and Stephen Shore (2011)
• An asperger marriage by Christopher Slater-Walker with Gisela Slater-Walker (2002)
  
• Aspergers in love couple relationships and family affairs by Maxine Aston (2003)
• Demystifying the autistic experience a humanistic introduction for parents, caregivers, and educators by William Stillman (2003)
• Asperger syndrome in the family redefining normal by Lianne Holliday Willey (2001)
• Asperger syndrome in adolescence living with the ups, the downs, and things in between by Lianne Holliday Willey (2003)
• Safety skills for asperger women how to save a perfectly good female life by Lianne Holliday Willey and Tony Attwood (2012)
• Like colour to the blind: soul searching and soul finding by Donna Author Williams (1998)
• Exposure anxiety – the invisible cage and exploration of self-protection responses in the autism spectrum and beyond by Donna Williams (2003)
• Everyday heaven journeys beyond the stereotypes of autism by Donna Williams (2004)
• The jumbled jigsaw an insider’s approach to the treatment of autistic spectrum ‘fruit salads’ by Donna Williams (2006)
• The self-help guide for special kids and their parents by James Williams with Joan Matthews (2000)