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Review: The Good Doctor - Season 1, Episode 11, "Islands Pt. 1"

Review: The Good Doctor – Season 1, Episode 11, “Islands Pt. 1”

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After having a meltdown of epic proportions and slapping Glassman, Shaun goes on an unscheduled road trip with his neighbour Leah in this two-part season opener. Glassman covers for Shaun with Melendez and Andrews (yeah, let’s see that not back-firing). Meanwhile, in the part of the show where medicine is being practised, Melendez, Andrews and Claire are scheduled…

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Review: The Good Doctor - Season 1, Episode 10 "Sacrifice"

Review: The Good Doctor – Season 1, Episode 10 “Sacrifice”

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Last time I watched The Good Doctor, they had successfully completed open-heart surgery on a young boy (against the odds of course because this is dramatised medicine) and Shaun was learning flirting rituals (and trying to distinguish them from ringworm). The Good Doctor has started it’s third season now so I am very behind.

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Autistic Authors’ Books in June 2019

Autistic Authors’ Books in June 2019 #AutisticAuthors

The much awaited The Outside by Ada Hoffman released in June, a sci-fi novel with autistic and LGBT+ representation which follows scientist Yasira Shien and the events following the catastrophic explosion on The Pride of Jai.

Aaron Paul Orsini wrote about his experiences of taking LSD and the impact it had on his perception of the world in Autism on Acid.

I missed it right at the end of last…

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June 2019 Round-up

June was a very quiet month for me on Books on Autism and this was – in part – due to significant difficulties in my day-job that have had an impact on my health.

I think July may be another month I struggle with posting before hopefully things calm down in August and I can catch up with posting reviews of books I read months ago (there are still reviews for books I read in April partially…

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Review: Autism and Asperger Syndrome in Childhood - Luke Beardon

Review: Autism and Asperger Syndrome in Childhood - Luke Beardon #Autism #Autistic "I was happy reading it - given some of the books I read and review, I can't overstate how important that was."

Autism and Asperger Syndrome in Childhood is a introduction to autism for parents which aims to offer something different to the deficit-laden introduction that too many parents are left with post-diagnosis.

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Autistic Authors' Books in May 2019

Autistic Authors’ Books in May 2019

Adam Woroniecki has a couple of books out Independently published which look at how professionals should work with autistic people (namely the NHS and the Samaritans). The title includes the phrase “dealing with people with autism” and the summaries are spare.

Kat Mills released the autobiographic ‘Work in Progress – The Story Behind the Songs‘ about the struggles and aftermath of being diagnosed…

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May 2019 Round-up

The Place Inside the Storm – Bradley W. Wright. – A young adult adventure set in a near dystopian future where neurodiverse minds are no longer accepted.

Neurodiverse Relationships – Joanna Pike and Tony Attwood. A book exploring the relationships of pairings consisting of autistic men and neurotypical women.

Testing Pandora – Kaia Sønderby.Xandri Corelel spent her life struggling and fighting…

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Review: Murder at the Museum - Spring Horton

Review: Murder at the Museum - Spring Horton #AutisticAuthors #AutisticCharacter

Atticus McLaren is happy with his life and the way everything is going. He has his own cottage – well it’s sort of a garden shed really – and he has a job he enjoys in the back of the museum where almost no-one can bother him.

Of course, nothing lasts forever, and soon Atticus is juggling a mystery unfolding at the museum, a very chatty photographer, and solving family disharmony that has gone…

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Hey! Books on Autism! Where has x,y,z post gone?

Hey! Books on Autism! Where has x,y,z post gone?

Earlier this year, I mentioned that I would be making some changes to the blog by moving the non-book-related posts across to Life on Autism.

I’ve finally got around to doing that. Which is why the post you were looking for may no longer be here.

Some people may not be so interested in the book related posts so you can find the other Series of posts here now:

Sensory Series

Communication Series

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Review: Testing Pandora - Kaia Sønderby

Review: Testing Pandora – Kaia Sønderby

Xandri Corelel has spent her life struggling and fighting just to survive on the streets of Wraith. Neurodivergences were (almost completely) wiped out of existence by genetic manipulation centuries ago, and autistic Xandri has been made to feel like she didn’t belong anywhere until she meets Captain Chui.

The prequel to ‘Failure to Communicate’ gives readers the origin of Xandri’s life on the…

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Review: Neurodiverse Relationships - Joanna Pike and Tony Attwood

Twelve couples with one autistic partner and one non-autistic partner featured in this book discussing areas such as Family, Socialising, Meltdowns and Change. Each chapter contained a section from the perspective of each person within the couple followed by a discussion/question and answer style section from authors Joanna Pike and Tony Attwood.

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Review: The Place Inside The Storm by Bradley W. Wright

Review: The Place Inside The Storm by Bradley W. Wright A young adult adventure set in a near dystopian future where neurodiverse minds are no longer accepted. #AutisticAuthors #AutisticCharacter

A young adult adventure set in a near dystopian future where neurodiverse minds are no longer accepted. When Tara Rivers learns that corporation where her parents work plan to implant something to her brain to change the very way she thinks, she has no choice but to run…

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Wrapping up #AutisticAuthors

With Autism Acceptance Month over for another year, it's time for my wrap-up for the month of #AutisticAuthors.

With Autism Acceptance Month over for another year, it’s time for my wrap-up for the month of #AutisticAuthors.

It has been an incredible month – I’ve come across so many different authors that I hadn’t known about and in the process I read books that I would probably never have read otherwise. Along the way I got to connect with autistic authors from around the world.

I also joined in my first…

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The shortfalls of #AutisticAuthors

Two weeks ago, I asked for Twitter responses from autistic authors and, mostly, this was what I got. There were two or three parents who had written books about or for their autistic children who responded to the request. In autistic spaces online, there can be tension when the request for the autistic voice is ignored, and these can lead to long-running arguments that turn overly personal or…

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March 2019 Round-up

I Have No Secrets by Penny Joelson – Jemma, a teenager with Cerebral Palsy, learns something important about a murder nearby but no-one has found a way to support her to communicate yet…

St. Nachos by Z. A Maxfield – While trying to outrun a trauma in his past, Cooper finds somewhere he might settle down and someone he might want to settle down for. Life doesn’t always go as planned though.

Aspe…

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Books released in March 2019

Books on Autism released in March 2019 on Amazon UK

As March comes to an end, Amazon have presented a new challenge in sifting through books on autism. Now there’s not just notebooks to skip past, there are multiple books which appear to be either erotic fiction or outright porn in German and French. With titles that translate to things like “Love for beauty” and “Just look sec in one wanted love” (I feel like something was lost in the…

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Celebrating #AutisticAuthors throughout April

Celebrating #AutisticAuthors throughout April

A week ago, I posted the below Tweet and the response was incredible.

  Throughout April I will be Tweeting and blogging about Autistic Authors – whether they write fiction or non-fiction and whether their books have anything or nothing to do with autism. The excel sheet I have set up is currently at over 250 individual books or series and I am under no illusions that this will be a chaotic…

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