Reading recommendations pls...

[Mij]

Hi all

Reposting cos other sen board very quiet.

DD1 is 12, has just had a 'not aspergers because we don't call it that any more but that's what we're saying' diagnosis today. It was both a no-brainer and a shock and a relief and I cried like a blithering idiot because I might just stop blaming myself, I'm definitely not imagining things. Maybe.

Anyway, DD1 is super-academic and a voracious reader, so looking for stuff, fiction and non-fiction, for her to read that might help her get her head around it all. She's not clueless - she has friends on the spectrum and her school are bloody amazing at supporting kids whether they have a diagnosis or not, and she's been involved in a couple of intervention groups - but I'm thinking particularly books or resources that have first-person experience of being a teen with ASD, considered 'high functioning' (though I know that's no longer really used either). And particularly girls. We've already been told about The Girl With The Curly Hair.

Thanks :-)

Bumping for the new half term and my scattered wits.

Not a girl, but I had a book written by a teen boy - Luke something - which was first person experience of aspergers. I'll see if I can google the kids name

Freaks, geeks and Asperger's syndrome it was called! Luke Johnson I think

Google Ros Blackburn. She’s such an inspirational woman. Immensely bright, but unable to function without someone to help her. I’ve heard her speak- wonderful.

Thank you :-)