F***ing Books! Help!

I am an adult recently diagnosed with this AS. Can someone recommend any informative books for adults?

Every book that I find talks about aspie children as if there arent already seventy-three (73) AS books on AS kids already! Oh man, its so aggravating.

Sadly, there isn't much because AS was only added to the DSM 11 years ago and most diagnosis have only started happening within the last few years. As with Autism, AS is usually diagnoised in childhood because it is catagorized as a developmental disorder, but this isn't to say one out grows AS/Autism, so adult diagnosis do happen.

There won't be much information available on adult AS for another 10 years, but in the mean time you can start reading about Non-verbal Learning Disability (because it is very, very simaliar to AS, and in fact AS may be an extreme form of NVLD instead of Autism, but that is another post in it self) at this URL http://www.nldline.com/as_vs_nld.htm and read anything you can find about adult High Functioning Autism.

As you will discover in reading about NVLD and how it relates/compares to AS, there are significant differences between Autism and Asperger's Syndrome, most noteworthy being that the Neuropsychological profiles of Autism and AS are the exact opposite of each other. In fact the profiles of AS and NVLD are almost indistinguishable, but regardless of this the symptoms of AS present themselves in such a way that they appear to be much like Autism, and as such, it has been catagorized as a PDD.

Speak-a-boo wrote:I am an adult recently diagnosed with this AS. Can someone recommend any informative books for adults?

Every book that I find talks about aspie children as if there arent already seventy-three (73) AS books on AS kids already! Oh man, its so aggravating.

There are several books on the subject of adult Aspergers. There's one by Stephen Shore (Beyond The Wall), and one by Jerry Newport(Your Life is not a Label). There are also the wonderful books by Donna Dawson (my own favourite), Wendy Lawson, Gunilla Gerson, and Liane Holliday Willey. Temple Grandin is HFA but her books are brilliant.
You might also like some of the websites by adult Aspergers. Try those by the late Marc Segar, by Kevin Phillips (www.angelfire.com/amiga/aut), by Larry Arnold (www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7138) and by Joel (www.geocities.com/growingjoel.
I wrote a book about Asperger's Syndrome and the guy I loved, and used many extracts from these and other websites to show people what AS was like in adults. You may find the book quite useful. It's called 'Loving Mr Spock'.

Hey thanks. I was thinking about thinking all hope was lost and I would not be able to find much out there. I was getting terribly sick of reading about NVLD because I don't think it applies to me. Some aspects, perhaps. Maybe perhaps.

I've heard of your book before.

Speak-a-boo wrote: Maybe perhaps.

It's a very big maybe!!! AS is far more complex and the sensory issues are very important, unlike NVLD. In addition, the adjustment problems faced by adults who receive an AS diagnosis after years of difficulties and personal soul-searching are immense. My book was written to draw attention to this very problem, to try to raise public awareness about the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of undiagnosed AS adults in the UK alone trying to make sense of themselves and the world around them, and that there is a huge depth of ignorance in the general population on this subject. Most people encounter AS when a child in the family is diagnosed. The rest of the world hasn't got a clue what its all about.
For what its worth, I see AS as a 'difference'. It does have elements of 'disability' in adults for whom there haven't been childhood interventions, and some may need to claim certain disability benefits. But the condition itself is an immensely valuable if different way of looking at the world and interacting with it, and those of us who are neuro-typical (I'm almost neuro-typical but not quite!) need to start opening our minds and hearts to the lessons which can be learnt from those whose neurology conflicts with what 'we' perceive as important. I learnt more from the man I loved who had AS than I've learnt from any other human being I've ever met. He illuminated my life. I miss him like crazy.