Here are three books that contain a fund of wonderful information of considerable use to those of us with ASC, and "autistic cousins", and a great many other people also:
1. Dinah Murray ed., Coming Our Asperger, pubd 2006, Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Chapters on:
- a professsional (Dinah herself) attaining diagnosis in her later career
- telling a youngster he/she has it
- telling your schoolmates you've got it
- coming out to employers or authorities
- psychiatry
- social confidence
I found the insights a huge boost even though I had already bypassed or been though the issues.
2. Kate Kelly & Peggy Ramundo, You mean I'm not lazy, stupid or crazy? pubd 1996, Fireside.
About recognizing ourselves with Attention Deficit Difference. Has got numerous chapters covering aspects of coping, self management, enjoying our relationships.
It thrilled me and warmed my heart and I dip into it again and again.
3. Donna Williams, The Jumbled Jigsaw, pubd 2006, Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Donna who found out she is autistic has written and lectured a great deal and here she reviews the "fruit salad" of conditions we creatively adapt to as we learn.
Among those she devotes a section to "childhood bipolar".
I heavily identified with "rapid cycling" (in my case more so than Eddie Merckx) and "mixed states". (I've not taken pills specifically for this, but one medicine helped it as a good spin-off.)
Her first hand experience and empathy through pattern sensing give her vivid concrete insight into everyday situations we find "loud" and "in our faces" and intense, and which we or others may not quickly understand.
(I was "led" to Donna's writings after generalised healing prayer over the assembled crowd in a tent! Until then, I hadn't been very curious about my condition.)
1. Dinah Murray ed., Coming Our Asperger, pubd 2006, Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Chapters on:
- a professsional (Dinah herself) attaining diagnosis in her later career
- telling a youngster he/she has it
- telling your schoolmates you've got it
- coming out to employers or authorities
- psychiatry
- social confidence
I found the insights a huge boost even though I had already bypassed or been though the issues.
2. Kate Kelly & Peggy Ramundo, You mean I'm not lazy, stupid or crazy? pubd 1996, Fireside.
About recognizing ourselves with Attention Deficit Difference. Has got numerous chapters covering aspects of coping, self management, enjoying our relationships.
It thrilled me and warmed my heart and I dip into it again and again.
3. Donna Williams, The Jumbled Jigsaw, pubd 2006, Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Donna who found out she is autistic has written and lectured a great deal and here she reviews the "fruit salad" of conditions we creatively adapt to as we learn.
Among those she devotes a section to "childhood bipolar".
I heavily identified with "rapid cycling" (in my case more so than Eddie Merckx) and "mixed states". (I've not taken pills specifically for this, but one medicine helped it as a good spin-off.)
Her first hand experience and empathy through pattern sensing give her vivid concrete insight into everyday situations we find "loud" and "in our faces" and intense, and which we or others may not quickly understand.
(I was "led" to Donna's writings after generalised healing prayer over the assembled crowd in a tent! Until then, I hadn't been very curious about my condition.)
