Is there a self help book for adults with aspergers?

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A book that explains all the aspects of it?

I ask this because I'm trying to fix myself with psychology. Ive done very well so far. But now I'm stuck.

There are certain aspects of myself I don't understand. I believe understanding my aspergers more may help me to answer the questions I have about myself.

So if you know of a book that can explain aspergers to a person with aspergers in great detail can you send me a link to where I can buy it?

I don't want a book geared toward children. I need A self help book geared toward adults.

thanks!

J.

yup, ma'am, there is:

M.J. Carley, Asperger's from the Inside Out

and it is the only one i know,
despite the title suggesting content rather more geared to the sensorial stuff -
there is precious little of that (and wouldn't have been very practical:
i don't think you can have extrem sensorial issues and still go undetected that long

Carley's is also still the only book in the entire autism debate i have come across yet,
to deal with the aspect of HFAs 'creating' a god-like persona, which could well be mistaken
for a trait less autistic and more schizo-typal, if not suggest narcicism
(>megalomania) or would lead the more ambitious psychiatrist towards paranoia:
i believe this god-like thing is perfectly within the realms of (very)HF-autism

meanwhile Nijmegen University (Netherland.z) seems to have something cooking
towards a standard post-dx protocol for adults [i am keeping an eye out for this]

the moment i get something tangible from there, i will attempt to see if i can sort of
compare the two and see if that would yield something even more worth while

you wont get all aspects in one book, i have been looking myself;
the closest you'll get, but from a rather original theoretical point of view (i subscribe!):
M. Delfos, A Strange World [...]

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I just picked up a good book, Temple Grandin's The Way I See It.

It is most interesting and helpful. I also like Attwood's stuff. And I have the book oblio referred to by Carley---I like it a lot too.

I actually wrote one. It's called "Borderline and Beyond: with expanded applications for ASDs." It's a book and workbook set, available on Amazon.

I'm not writing this to promote my work, but just to let you know that another resource is out there and that I created it.

I will look for your book whitetiger. Congratulations on getting your books published. I am working on a novel and hope I can someday get it published. I feel like that when we AS people set our minds to something---there's no stopping us.

Maybe sometime I can get some words of encouragement from you when I try to publish this book. I tend to get motivated to write, then set it aside for awhile. I envy (in a good way) how people are able to get through the writing process and publish. I hope I can get that fortune too. Thank you for sharing your work.

I do not think there is one book that can cover all parts. Some of the books come close. The reason the word all need to learn how not use that word. You need to get parts from many books that apply to you make a list or log and go from there. Happy searching :D

Also check out Jessica Kingsley Publishing

It has a logbook section to track progress, and a whole section to work through to find out if you were incorrectly diagnosed as having borderline personality.

From there, each section of my book has applications to ASD's and they simply expand on the text, which also applies to ASD as well as people who "think" they have BPD.. which I think is a BS diagnosis that does not exist. I make a case for that in my book.

I hope you find it helpful!

Another one checking out is Your LIfe is Not a Label by Jerry Newport.

quite complete in its overview of possible sensorial traits-problems,
and consequences thereof
with quite a handy checklist-like chapter, and some diagnostic tools appended

Olga Bogdashina, Sensory Perceptual Issues in Autism and Asperger Syndrome

I mention her especially, because she actually states ESP as a phenomenon
nut unseen in autism, and that would fir with some of my experiences,
although i would not call it extra-sensorial perception

(and now i cannot find the quote, maybe in the book i havent got yet)

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Two books I have found useful are The Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships by Temple Grandin and Sean Barron:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unwritten-Rules ... 653&sr=8-1

and The Asperger Personal Guide - Raising Self Esteem and making the most of yourself as an adult with Asperger's Syndrome by Genevieve Edmonds and Dean Worton:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asperger-Person ... 686&sr=1-1