I just caught up on an online seminar that I had missed earlier this week.

As my “keeper” (see the “tamagotchi” page) may be autistic and I discovered, in the course of trying to find out what the hell I am dealing with here in Portsmouth, that I’d known an autistic woman in Amsterdam for decades (which she’s confirmed), I am trying to learn more about autism.

Here are some resources that I just heard mentioned (by Leon Brenner) and that may be useful to you. I haven’t looked at them myself yet.

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Books by Donna Williams:

• Nobody Nowhere: The Remarkable Autobiography of an Autistic Girl
• Autism: An Inside-Out Approach: An Innovative Look at the ‘Mechanics’ of ‘Autism’ and its Developmental ‘Cousins’
• The Jumbled Jigsaw: An Insider’s Approach to the Treatment of Autistic Spectrum `Fruit Salads’
• Exposure Anxiety – The Invisible Cage: An Exploration of Self-Protection Responses in the Autism Spectrum and Beyond
• Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism
• Autism and Sensing: The Unlost Instinct
• Like Colour to the Blind: Soul Searching and Soul Finding
• Not Just Anything: A Collection of Thoughts on Paper

Book by Bruno Bettelheim:

• Empty Fortress: Infantile Autism and the Birth of the Self

Books by Temple Grandin:

• The Autistic Brain: understanding the autistic brain by one of the most accomplished and well-known adults with autism in the world
• Thinking in Pictures
• Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns and Abstractions
• Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships: Decoding Social Mysteries Through the Unique Perspectives of Autism: New Edition with Author Updates
• Navigating Autism: 9 Mindsets For Helping Kids on the Spectrum
• Temple Talks about Autism and Sensory Issues: The World’s Leading Expert on Autism Shares Her Advice and Experiences (Temple Talks about . . .)
• Different… Not Less
• The Way I See It, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition