We often get asked to signpost peers to useful books etc which can help us understand our live experience and explore further our identities and community.
One of our lovely group members Sue has put together this recommended list of neurodivergent friendlyreading material and podcasts about the neurodivergent experience by neurodivergent creators and allies.
We hope you find these voices useful companion on your own journey. Peer support comes in many forms!
Taking off the mask
Dr Hannah Louise Belcher
(Describes itself as the more practical companion to Sedgewick, Hull and Ellis, below, which Belcher describes as a complete guide to the subject)
Autism and Masking
Dr Felicity Sedgewick, Dr Laura Hull, Helen Ellis
Unmasking Autism
Devon Price
Interception and Regulation
Emma Goodhall and Charlotte Brownlow
Women and Girls with autistic spectrum disorder
Sarah Hendrickx
Avoiding anxiety in autistic adults: a guide for autistic wellbeing
Autism and Asperger Syndrome in Adults
Dr Luke Beardon
Spectrum Women
Edited by Barb Cook, Dr Michelle Grant
The Guide to Good mental health on the autistic spectrum
Yenn Purkis
We are not Broken
Eric Michael Garcia
Neurotribes
Steve Silberman
Neuroqueer Heresies – a great resource for the language around ND
Nick Walker
Divergent Mind
Jenara Nerenberg
Untypical
What I want to talk about
Pete Wharmby
Sensory Trauma: Autism, Sensory Difference and The Daily Experience
Dr Rorie Fulton et al
Letters of My Weird Sisters
Joanne Limburg
A Different sort of normal
Abigail Balfe
Different Not Less
Chloe Hayden
Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation
Hannah Gadsby
Strong Female Character
Fern Brady
Odd Girl Out
Laura James
The Electricity of Every Living Thing
Katherine May
Drama Queen
Sara Gibbs
Illuminated: Autism and all the things I left unsaid
Melanie Sykes
Late Bloomer
Clem Bastow
Novels/short stories by autistic authors:
Any of the YA books by Elle McNicoll:
- A kind of spark (now on BBC TV)
- Like a Charm
- Like a Curse
- Show us who you are
Geek Girl
Young Adult series
Holly Smale
The Cassandra Complex
Holly Smale
The Right Wavelength
Amber Crewe
Burning Out
Katherine May
Make you mine this Christmas
Lizzie Huxley Jones
Stim
Edited by Lizzie Huxley Jones
Podcasts: There are a lot out there, but these stand out:
- The Square Peg Podcast
- The Late Discovered Club
- The Other Autism
- The Neurodivergent Woman Podcast
- The Loudest Girl in the World