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Submitted by anneliese on Sat, 07/18/2009 - 8:57am

Suggestions from the group: Bob Dylan (Chronicles), Ramachandran (New Yorker article, others?), Oliver Sacks (Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood), Joseph Heller (Catch-22)


I'd like to add: Donna Williams - she has a series of autobiographies about her experiences living with autism, including vivid descriptions of her inner world. Titles include: Nobody Nowhere, Somebody Somewhere, Like Color to the Blind, and Everday Heaven.


Other ideas?

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Autism in Fiction

Submitted by Simon Hunt (guest) on Sun, 07/19/2009 - 8:33am.

Hello - a lurker here that may have something to contribute... Sorry if these have been mentioned somewhere before.

There are a couple of fiction books in which the protagonist is autistic which may be of interest - either assuming that the authors did their research, so providing another window on the inner world of those living with autism, or as a second order study of public perception of autism and efforts of those in the infra-red of the autistic spectrum to understand those in the visible.

The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

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Thank you, Simon. Glad

Submitted by anneliese on Sat, 08/01/2009 - 12:39pm.

Thank you, Simon. Glad you're lurking about - care to join?

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