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Title: Different Minds: Gifted Children with AD/HD, Aspergers Syndrome and Other Learning Deficits
Author: Deirdre V. Lovecky
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Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon

Lou Arrendale is autistic. His condition means he has considerable difficulty with the sort of social interaction that most people take for granted, but it also gives him the ability to draw complex patterns from data, which are invisible to "normal" people and this is how he earns a living.

But now he has a new boss, ( Read more... )

#73: Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison

Format: trade paperback

Genre: Memoir

Themes: Asperger's syndrome

Why I chose it: I have Asperger's, and I wanted to see how my experiences compared with the author's

Plot:

John Elder Robison wasn't diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome until he was forty years old. Before then, all he knew was that he was ( Read more... )