Good start! But I picked five of the books by Autistic people that are on my bookshelf and tried looking them up in your database, and I was only able to find two of them.
Of the five I looked for, here are the three that I wasn't able to find:
Scholars with Autism: Achieving Dreams, edited by Lars Perner (Each chapter of this book is by a different autistic author; contributors include Temple Grandin, Stephen Shore, Dawn Prince... and me, which makes me especially bummed that this particular book didn't make it onto your list.)
Delightful Reflections: Quips, Conjectures, and Pontifications, by Lars Perner (Poor Lars! The anthology he edited didn't make it in, and neither did the book he wrote on his own!)
Yep, you're right, something like this will always be a work in progress! Especially since Autistic authors are going to keep on publishing more stuff (yay!). I'll let you know if I find other works to add.
I'll mention Margaret Atwood in case you overlooked her, which isn't very likely: You probably didn't include her because she's not out. Hell, maybe she isn't even autistic, but she sure looks like it to me! No need to explain; just figured I'd put her name in front of you.
I'm a bit mystified by the change of font for Erika Hammerschmidt.
That does raise the interesting question of how "out" an author needs to be, in order to get on the list. Does the author have to have declared zirself to be Autistic? Or is it enough that they strike most well-informed Autistic people as obviously being Autistic? Many authors who now seem more or less obviously Autistic weren't/aren't aware of themselves as Autistic, simply because they grew up before the diagnosis was widely recognized and used (e.g., Hunter S. Thompson, Thomas Pynchon), or before it existed as a diagnosis at all (e.g., Ludwig Wittgenstein, Immanuel Kant, Emily Dickinson, H.P. Lovecraft).
For this database, authors must have publicly acknowledged being on the spectrum. Self-diagnoses are OK.
Re: possibly autistic authors of the past: they're not included because we have no way of knowing for sure. For those interested in the subject: Julie Brown's book "Writers On The Spectrum" discusses possibly autistic deceased writers, including some of the ones you mentioned.
Living authors, no matter how autistic they seem, won't be included unless they publicly mention being on the spectrum. This database isn't about "outing" people; some might have good reasons for keeping that info private.
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Of the five I looked for, here are the three that I wasn't able to find:
Scholars with Autism: Achieving Dreams, edited by Lars Perner
(Each chapter of this book is by a different autistic author; contributors include Temple Grandin, Stephen Shore, Dawn Prince... and me, which makes me especially bummed that this particular book didn't make it onto your list.)
Delightful Reflections: Quips, Conjectures, and Pontifications, by Lars Perner
(Poor Lars! The anthology he edited didn't make it in, and neither did the book he wrote on his own!)
Bio-Typing: Beyond Body Language, by Johnny Seitz
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"The msot complete bibliography" is NOT intended to mean it's totally complete. I'll be adding entries as I find out about them.
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I'm a bit mystified by the change of font for Erika Hammerschmidt.
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Re: possibly autistic authors of the past: they're not included because we have no way of knowing for sure.
For those interested in the subject: Julie Brown's book "Writers On The Spectrum" discusses possibly autistic deceased writers, including some of the ones you mentioned.
Living authors, no matter how autistic they seem, won't be included unless they publicly mention being on the spectrum. This database isn't about "outing" people; some might have good reasons for keeping that info private.
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