Autism/Neurodiversity > Adult
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Social Context and Self-Management
A System for Clarifying Social Information for Adolescents and Adults Social Context and Self-Management: A System for Clarifying Social Information for Adolescents and Adults uses scales as a way of explaining social and emotional concepts to someone who might struggle with such information, but have a relative strength in understanding systems. Using this approach can increase communication between someone with autism and their partner or support person. The goal of this easy-to-use book is to teach individuals, teams, or groups how and why to teach social information, as it relates to particular social environments and contexts. The Incredible 5-Point Scale was developed to increase co-operation and mutual understanding through a concrete visual system. This strategy can help to increase social understanding and self-management skills, and the examples used in this book are related to common social situations and social misunderstandings often faced by young adults.
$27.95
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Spectrum Women Walking To The Beat Of Autism
Barb Cook and 14 other autistic women describe life from a female autistic perspective, and present empowering, helpful and supportive insights from their personal experience for fellow autistic women. Michelle Garnett's comments validate and expand the experiences described from a clinician's perspective, and provide extensive recommendations.
$36.95
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Taking Off The Mask
Practical Exercises to Help Understand and Minimize the Effects of Autistic Camouflaging Growing up autistic can often feel as though you have to become a chameleon in social situations, camouflaging yourself to fit in with a seemingly neurotypical world. Combining lived experience with scientific research and practical advice, this book is the essential guide to understanding why you mask and how to feel confident without one. Focusing on diagnostic devices like the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q) to discover the situations in which you mask the most and why, alongside a range of techniques, from CBT, compassion based therapy, DBT, and mindfulness to relieve anxiety and reduce stress, this guide gives you all the tools and confidence you need to re-connect with yourself, the things you love and finally, take off your mask.
$32.95
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The #ActuallyAutistic Guide to Building Independence
A Handbook for Teens, Young Adults, and Those Who Care About Them .This empowering book is here to help you (and your Neurodiverse family and friends who love you) learn how to navigate these transitions on your own terms and timeline. It recognises that no matter where you are - home, school, college, work, out with friends - you have the right to be heard, to feel safe and comfortable, and to chart your own path to success. And it will give you the tools you need to make sure that happens.
$26.95
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The Autistic Burnout Workbook
Feeling burnt out? You’re not alone. Autistic burnout is a challenge faced by many individuals on the autistic spectrum. And The Autistic Burnout Workbook is here to help. This transformative guide is designed to empower individuals on the autism spectrum to manage and overcome burnout. Crafted with empathy and insight, this workbook provides practical strategies and exercises to help you navigate the unique challenges associated with burnout.
$25.99
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The Neurodivergence Skills Workbook for Autism and ADHD
Cultivate Self-Compassion, Live Authentically, and Be Your Own Advocate Written by neurodivergent psychologists, this empowering workbook offers self-compassion skills to help you embrace who you are and thrive. Whether you were diagnosed as a child or are just now realizing your difference, this workbook can help you move beyond the internalized message that there is something wrong with you, so you can embrace who you really are and manage stress before it leads to neurodivergent burnout. This workbook offers acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and self-compassion skills tailored to the needs of neurodiverse people — especially those with ADHD and Autism — so you can live authentically, take pride in your identity, increase overall well-being, and build meaningful connections to thrive. This workbook will help you: acknowledge your needs and be your own advocate; unmask and express your authentic self; reduce sensory overload and balance emotions; manage rejection sensitivity dysphoria (RSD) and social anxiety; improve executive functioning to get more done; and adjust your environment to better fit your needs.
$38.95
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This is Who I Am
The Autistic Woman's Creative Guide to Belonging Creative, engaging and personal, this book walks you step-by-step through the process of understanding and accepting a new autistic identity. Weaving together the personal lived experience and professional knowledge of neurodivergent author and creative career coach, Andrea Anderson, This is Who I Am provides you with the information, tools, and support to navigate your autistic discovery and reach a place of positivity and confidence.
$27.95
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Trans and Autistic
This ground-breaking book foregrounds the voices of autistic trans people as they speak candidly about how their autism and gender identity intersects and the impact this has on their life. Drawing upon a wealth of interviews with transgender people on the autism spectrum, the book explores experiences of coming out, with self-discovery, healthcare, family, work, religion and community support, to help dispel common misunderstandings around gender identity and autism, whilst allowing autistic trans people to see their own neurodiverse experiences reflected in these interviews. Both accessible and authoritative, Trans and Autistic is an essential publication for autistic trans people, their families, and professionals wanting to understand and support their clients better.
$39.95
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Unmasking Autism
Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity For every visibly Autistic person you meet, there are countless “masked†Autistic people who pass as neurotypical. Masking is a common coping mechanism in which Autistic people hide their identifiably Autistic traits in order to fit in with societal norms, adopting a superficial personality at the expense of their mental health. This can include suppressing harmless stims, papering over communication challenges by presenting as unassuming and mild-mannered, and forcing themselves into situations that cause severe anxiety, all so they aren’t seen as needy or odd. Dr. Price shares his personal experience with masking and blends history, social science research, prescriptions, and personal profiles to tell a story of neurodivergence that has been dominated by those on the outside looking in.
$37.99
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Unmasking For Life
The Autistic Person's Guide to Connecting, Loving, and Living Authentically Most masked Autistics have spent a lifetime being told how to perform neurotypically: how to behave, how to carry themselves, what to feel, and how to live. With his previous book, Unmasking Autism, Devon Price, PhD, has given them the space and the tools to unmask and embrace their neurodiversity. But no matter where you are in the unmasking process, there is still work to be done. Unmasking is more than just a personal process of self-acceptance, after all—it also requires figuring out how to move comfortably throughout life building friendships, nurturing family, pursuing love, finding a means of survival, and expressing oneself on one’s own terms. In order to live a brilliantly unashamed Autistic life, you need more than internal healing—you need practical tools of assertiveness and interpersonal effectiveness, and solutions to the problems of ableism and inaccessibility.
$37.99
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Unmasking Workbook for Autistic Adults
Neurodiversity-Affirming Skills to Help You Live Authentically, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive Let this workbook guide you toward your authentic, autistic self. Written by a therapist who is actually autistic, this neurodiversity-affirming workbook offers skills to help you cultivate self-acceptance, manage intense emotions, and be your own advocate when needed. You’ll take a good look at the situations or people that caused you to mask in the first place. You’ll also discover: How to set and achieve your own authentic goals—with a clear view of who you are and what you care about; Why self-love and self-acceptance is so important for autistic folks; How to live your life on your own terms, while self-advocating for accommodations; How to let go of old, hurtful messages about autistic people that you’ve internalized; How autism can be both a strength and a disability; Strategies to cope with burnout or meltdowns; How to be assertive and set boundaries with others. You don’t have to mask, hide, or camouflage any longer. Let this workbook guide you on a journey of self-discovery and acceptance.
$38.95
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Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships
Decoding Social Mysteries Through the Unique Perspectives of Autism: New Edition with Author Updates Born with autism, both Temple Grandin and Sean Barron now live famously successful social lives. However, their paths were quite different. Temple's logical mind controlled her social behavior. Logic informed her decision to obey social rules and avoid unpleasant consequences. Sean's emotions controlled his social behavior. Baffled by social rules, isolated and friendless, he made up his own and applied them to others. Whether you are a person with autism, a caregiver in the autism community, or a neurotypical, interested in learning more, these powerful stories will captivate and enlighten you.
$27.95
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Visual Thinking
With her genius for demystifying science, Temple Grandin draws on cutting-edge research to take us inside visual thinking. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously believed and a more varied one, from photo-realistic object visualizers like Grandin, with an intuitive knack for design and problem solving, to abstract, mathematically inclined “visual spatial†thinkers who excel in pattern recognition and systemic thinking. She helps us understand how a world geared to the verbal tends to sideline visual thinkers, screening them out at school and passing over them in the workplace. Rather than continuing to waste their singular gifts, driving a collective loss in productivity and innovation, she proposes new approaches to educating, parenting, employing, and collaborating with visual thinkers.
$37.99
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We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation
Eric Garcia began writing about autism because he was frustrated by the media’s coverage of it; the myths that the disorder is caused by vaccines, the narrow portrayals of autistic people as white men working in Silicon Valley. In this book, he uses his own life as a springboard to discuss the social and policy gaps that exist in supporting those on the spectrum. From education to healthcare, he explores how autistic people wrestle with systems that were not built with them in mind. At the same time, he shares the experiences of many types of autistic people, from those with higher support needs, to autistic people of color, to those in the LGBTQ community. In doing so, Eric Garcia gives his community a platform to articulate their own needs, rather than having others speak for them, which has been the standard for far too long.
$23.99
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