• Learning to Live with High Functioning Autism - A Parent's Guide for Professionals by Mike Stanton (Newsgroup member)
  A simple introduction to autistic spectrum disorders for those who don't have time to go into more depth.
• Asperger's Syndrome: A Guide for Parents and Professionals, by Tony Attwood.
  The most oft recommended book to introduce people to Asperger's Syndrome. Clearly written and easy to follow, very positive about individuals with AS, and useful to improve anyone's general knowledge about people on the spectrum.
• Martians in the Playground, by Clare Sainsbury (woman with AS)
  About her schooldays, it includes lots of insights from fellow Aspies. It was the special needs book of the year in the UK in 2000 (NASEN Award).
• A Real Person: Life on the Outside by Gunilla Gerland
  An account of growing up with AS.
• Emergence: Labelled Autistic and "Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin. Grandin's story is also described in An Anthropologist on Mars, by Oliver Sacks.
• Preparing For Adulthood by Patricia Howlin
  Focuses on the problems faced by HFA teenagers and young adults.
• News From The Border: A Mother's Memoir of Her Autistic Son by Jane Taylor McDonnell
  Describes bringing up a son with HFA/AS, with an afterword by her son Paul, himself.
• Nobody Nowhere and Somebody Somewhere (and others) by Donna Williams (a woman with autism)
• "Shadow Syndromes: The mild forms of major mental disorders that sabotage us by John Ratey and Catherine Johnson.
  Chapter 6 is entitled "Autistic Echos" and is about people who don't have an ASD, but have some autitic-type behaviours, which frequently includes the parents and relatives of ACs.
• The World of the Autistic Child by Bryna Siegel, Ph.D.
• Pretending to be Normal by Liane Holliday-Willey, a woman with AS.
• Unraveling the Mystery of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder by Karyn Seroussi
• Special Diets for Special Kids by Lisa Lewis, Ph.D.
• Biological Treatments for Autism and PDD by William Shaw, Ph.D.

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