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My first book, What I Mean When I Say I’m Autistic, mentions the following topics. For each topic, I’ve listed some sources that informed my writing, as well as resources to learn more.
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- Adult Diagnosis
from Chapter 1: Discovery- I Think I Might Be Autistic: A Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis and Self-Discovery for Adults – book by Cynthia Kim
- Adult Diagnosis – articles by Cynthia Kim
- Is This Autism? A Guide for Clinicians and Everyone Else – book by Donna Henderson and Sarah Wayland with Jamell White
- Autism in Jane Eyre
from Chapter 1: Discovery- “On the Spectrum”: Rereading Contact and Affect in Jane Eyre – paper by Julia Miele Rodas
- Jane Eyre, Autistic Heroine – article by Annie Kotowicz
- Autism in Women & Girls
from Chapter 1: Discovery- Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum: Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age – book by Sarah Hendrickx with Jess Hendrickx
- Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism – anthology edited by Barb Cook
- Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism – book by Joanne Limburg
- Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent’s Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After – book for teens by Chloé Hayden
- Good Different – book for preteens by Meg Eden Kuyatt
- Autistic Inertia
from Chapter 9: Quirks- Inertia – article by Autisticality
- “No Way Out Except From External Intervention”: First-Hand Accounts of Autistic Inertia – study by Karen Leneh Buckle & others
- Autistic Inertia – comic by Cy Popps
- Co-regulation
from Chapter 11: Uplifting- Self-regulation Doesn’t Exist – article by Robyn Gobbel
- The Co-Regulation Effect – article by Kate Double
- Modern Emotion Regulation Supports for Neurodivergent Learners – article by Kelly Mahler
- Regulation and Co-Regulation: Accessible Neuroscience and Connection Strategies that Bring Calm into the Classroom – book by Ginger Healy
- Double Empathy Problem
from Chapter 7: Misunderstandings- Double Empathy: Why Autistic People Are Often Misunderstood – article by Catherine J. Crompton & others
- Autistic peer-to-peer information transfer is highly effective – study by Catherine J. Crompton & others
- Understanding Social Cognition in Autism – video by Templeton World Charity Foundation
- On the Ontological Status of Autism: The “Double Empathy Problem” – paper by Damian Milton
- Understanding the autistic social communication style – studies by Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland
- Autistic people don’t lack social skills—they have different social values – slides by Therapist Neurodiversity Collective, based on Sutherland’s research above
- Intense World Theory
from Chapter 2: Unpuzzling- Information gain in the brain’s resting state: A new perspective on autism – study by José L. Pérez Velázquez and Roberto F. Galán
- Intense World: Autistic Brains Create 42% More Information at Rest – article by Jeremy Dean
- Interview: Henry And Kamila Markram About The Intense World Theory For Autism – interview by Alex Plank
- The Intense World Theory – a unifying theory of the neurobiology of autism – article by Kamila Markram and Henry Markram
- Monotropism
from Chapter 2: Unpuzzling- Starting Points for Understanding Autism: Monotropism in Practice – article by Fergus Murray
- Me and Monotropism: A unified theory of autism – article by Fergus Murray
- Attention, monotropism and the diagnostic criteria for autism – paper by Dinah Murray & others
- Embracing Autistic Children’s Monotropic Flow States – article by Helen Edgar
- Monotropism Questionnaire – based on a study by Valeria Garau & others
- Predictive Coding Theory
from Chapter 2: Unpuzzling- Does autism arise because the brain is continually surprised? – article by George Musser
- An aberrant precision account of autism – study by Rebecca P. Lawson & others
- Autism and The Predictive Brain – book by Peter Vermeulen
- Spoon Theory
from Chapter 10: Optimizing- The Spoon Theory – article by Christine Miserandino
- Teach Me About Spoon Theory – comic by Em Mainey
- Synesthesia
from Chapter 9: Quirks- Is synaesthesia more common in autism? – study by Simon Baron-Cohen & others
- Some Ways Autism & Synaesthesia Work Together – slides by Maike Preißing
- Exploring the Intriguing Connection Between Synaesthesia and Autism – article by Reframing Autism
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