Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Autism (or Autistic) Spectrum Disorder - ASD - is a developmental disorder that affects communication and behavior. Although autism can be diagnosed at any age, it is said to be a “developmental disorder” because symptoms generally appear in the first two years of life.

Autism is known as a “spectrum” disorder because there is wide variation in the type and severity of symptoms people experience and display dependant on circumstances. ASD occurs in all ethnic, racial, and economic groups. Although ASD can be a lifelong disorder, treatments and services can improve a person’s symptoms and abilit
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
Look Me in the Eye
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism
Strong Female Character
Born on a Blue Day
Rules
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We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Helen  Hoang
This crusade to fix herself was ending right now. She wasn't broken. She saw and interacted with the world in a different way, but that was her. She could change her actions, change her words, change her appearance, but she couldn't change the root of herself. At her core, she would always be autistic. People called it a disorder, but it didn't feel like one. To her, it was simply the way she was. ...more
Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

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