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These are recommended books about autism and neurodiversity, providing insights, education, practical guidance and expert knowledge. Whether you're autistic yourself, or a family member, or a carer or other professional, these books help you develop understanding, respect, acceptance, independence, and well-being. Just click on a book to find out about it!

Choose from these book categories:

  1. Living a Better Autistic Life - SEE ALL
  2. Care and Support - SEE ALL
  3. Improving Autistic & Neurodiverse Life - SEE ALL
Top of pageBooks  Living a Better Autistic Life

How to live a happier, safer, more meaningful life


These books offer valuable insights for autistic people, their families, and the professionals who provide their care. Discover powerful personal narratives from authors sharing their lived experiences, alongside practical guides for navigating a world that often doesn't consider the needs of neurodiverse people. The books here explore key topics from understanding diagnosis and sensory processing to developing communication strategies and nurturing individual strengths. These books will grow your own understanding of autism, challenge common misconceptions, and provide the tools and support needed for autistic people to thrive, promoting acceptance and celebrating different ways of thinking and being.
 I'm Autistic, Hear Me Roar!

How to be the very best version of you
Click here to hear this podcast!This is a book for autistic people, by an autistic writer. It helps you understand and embrace your autism and focus on all its positive sides (and all your strengths that come with it), as well as how to calm yourself in troubled times, and how to live a full life that's even happier, more fulfilling, and more meaningful, as part of your community. There are hundreds of practical ideas and advice for going out and enjoying life, meeting new... SEE BOOK
 The Autistic Robot Man

Unmasking for a happy, fulfilling life!
Click here to hear this podcast!DJ Merryweather is autistic, and shares his life experiences of autism - always trying to fit in, masking his differences at every turn - and how it led to his ultimate burnout, after which he began dismantling his autistic masking habits, one by one. The book explains why you're masking, how bad it can make you feel, and why you probably feel like you're stuck with it - from social rules and situations to 'faking' emotions and learning to... SEE BOOK
 Tackling Bullying The Right Way

How to stop bullies without starting a war!
Click here to hear this podcast!This is a comprehensive guide to addressing bullying whether it's at home, school, work, in clubs, in public, or online. It provides safe and ethical strategies to handle all the different bullying tactics from subtle manipulation to outright harassment and physical threats. It equips you to recognise bullying, deal with it safely but assertively, set proper boundaries, and document and report bullying wherever it finds you. Learn how to use... SEE BOOK
Top of pageBooks  Care and Support

Adopting person-centred, compassionate care


This books are dedicated to putting people with autism at the very heart of their care and support. These titles provide insights and practical guidance about caring for autistic people with dignity, respect, compassion, and empathy. Learn about topics such as effective communication, understanding the often significant difference between someone's needs and what they want, how to promote autonomy and self-worth, and how to create truly tailored support plans that increase a person's well-being, ensuring the unique needs and choices of everyone are both heard nd prioritised.
 Understanding Autism

A simple guide for everyone
Click here to hear this podcast!Written by an autistic author, this book aims to help the friends, family and carers of autistic people, as well the general public, educators, healthcare providers, employers, authorities, and anyone else who might interact with autistic people. It clearly and concisely shows them what autism can 'look like', how to recognise it, how to sensitively offer support, and how to advocate for greater awareness and acceptance in society. SEE BOOK
 Compassionate, Person-Centred Care

The essential handbook for carers and support workers
Click here to hear this podcast!This essential handbook is for those who care for and support vulnerable people and those with disabilities. If you want to move beyond 'task-focused' routines and deliver truly compassionate, person-centred care, this is the toolbox that will make all the difference to you and to those you look after. Written by an experienced social care professional, it provides practical strategies, reflective tools, and human insights that improve... SEE BOOK
Top of pageBooks  Improving Autistic & Neurodiverse Life

How to make life better and fairer for autistic & neurodiverse people


A selection of books to improve autistic and neurodiverse life. These resources offer practical strategies and insights for people to better navigate daily challenges. Discover ways to build a fairer, more accessible world and empower yourself or your loved ones with knowledge and confidence.
 The Autism Manifesto

Goals for a Compassionate Society
The Autism Manifesto, written by autistic author and social care worker Peter J. Clark, provides a vital 'lived perspective' on autism and advocates for greater understanding, inclusion, and integration for autistic people in society. The manifesto challenges outdated views of autism as a deficit or something to be 'cured', instead presenting it as a natural human variation, and highlights the fact that different ways of thinking only serve... SEE BOOK
 The Autism Manifesto - In Summary (free PDF download)

A full summary of our manifesto for change in society
This is your essential guide to campaigning and advocating for a fairer, easier, and happier world for autistic and neurodiverse people. It's a blueprint for societal transformation which explains the many problems autistic people face in everyday life, then outlines The 10 Pillars of Inclusion and the Manifesto Principles for concrete changes across critical areas like home, healthcare, education, work, law, public spaces, and government... SEE BOOK
 The Autism Manifesto - EASY READ (free PDF download)

A 14-page summary of our manifesto in Easy Read format
This is a 14-page simplified summary of The Autism Manifesto in official Easy-Read format, designed to help people with learning difficulties or disabilities to understand what Autism Info Center is campaigning for, how it will help autistic people all over the world, and how they can get involved as self-advocates too. It begins with a brief summary of what autism is, and what challenges autistic people often face in society. It then... SEE BOOK
 

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