Books and Articles by Autistics

Reading about other autistic people is often one of the best ways to learn about ourselves. The following is a list of books and articles written by autistics. Please see also the books by family members and books by professionals pages.

Books
Author: Judy Barron & Sean Barron
Title: There's a Boy in Here
Publisher: Avon Books
ISBN 0-380-72292-5
Format: Paperback
Date: 1992

 

Author: Gunilla Gerland
English translation by Joan Tate
Title:   A Real Person: Life on the Outside
Publisher: Souvenir Press, London
ISBN 0-285-63398-8
Format: Hardback
Date: 1997


Author: Temple Grandin, Margaret M. Scariano (Contributor)
Title: Emergence : Labeled Autistic
Publisher: Warner Books
ISBN 0-446-67182-7
Format: Paperback
Date: 1996

 

Author: Temple Grandin, Oliver Sacks
Title: Thinking in Pictures : And Other Reports from My Life With Autism
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN 0679772898
Format: Paperback
Date: 1996

 

Author: Donna Williams
Title: Nobody Nowhere : The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic
Publisher: Avon Books (Pap Trd)
ISBN 0380722178
Format: Paperback
Date: 1994

 

Author: Donna Williams, Debra Winger (Narrator)
Title:

Nobody Nowhere/Audio Cassettes

Publisher: Ten Speed Pr Audio
ISBN 0944993818
Format: Audio Cassette Cssts edition
Date: 1994

 

Author: Donna Williams
Title: Somebody Somewhere : Breaking Free from the World of Autism
Publisher: Times Books
ISBN 0812925246
Format: Paperback
Date: 1995

 

Author: Donna Williams
Title: Like Color to the Blind
Publisher: Times Books
ISBN 0812926404
Format: Hardcover
Date: 1996

 

Author: Donna Williams
Title: Autism: An Inside-Out Approach
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley
ISBN 1-85302-387-6
Format: Softback
Date: 1997

Articles

How to Understand People Who Are Different by Brad Rand

My Experiences with Visual Thinking Sensory Problems and Communication Difficulties by Temple Grandin, Ph.D.

Autism? What is it...? by Jared Blackburn

A Way of Describing Autism by Dave Spicer

Don't Mourn for Us by Jim Sinclair

Autism and Psychotherapy by Gunnilla Gerland

Wouter Schenk interviews Carolyn Baird.
In this interview Carolyn Baird from Glendale, Australia, tells about her life, Autism and Internet and her list PAN-L. Carolyn Baird is the listowner of PAN-L (Parents Autistics Network List). Carolyn, a high functioning autist, is mother of four children. Wouter Schenk works for the local government as an environmental specialist and writes articles on freelance basis.

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