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Abstract
The A to Z of ASDs is a one-stop shop for adults on the autism spectrum in the form of an alphabetical guide to an array of challenging topics. From anxiety to zen meditation, compassion to self-esteem, dating to socializing (and everything in between), Aunt Aspie's wisdom and witty one-liners offer helpful advice for serious subjects. With tried-and-tested tips, Aunt Aspie shares some of the tough life lessons she's learnt so you can avoid making the same mistakes, and make informed choices on the issues that matter.
Sometimes philosophical, often light-hearted and always informative, the practical information in this book will help you to navigate tricky life issues, and enable you to think through the more challenging questions facing people with ASDs.
Rudy Simone is an Aspergirl, writer, speaker and AS consultant. She is the author of 22 Things a Woman Must Know If She Loves a Man with Asperger's Syndrome, 22 Things a Woman with Asperger's Syndrome Wants Her Partner to Know and Aspergirls, also published by JKP. She lives in New York, USA. Visit her website at www.Help4aspergers.com.
Aunt Aspie brings her refreshingly candid and sharp wit to words that provide life-changing advice in The A-Z of ASDs by Rudy Simone. Love it!
Liane Holliday Willey, author of Pretending to be Normal and Safety Skills for Asperger Women
From A to Z, Aunt Aspie's advice will help you to evolve in a challenging world without stifling your differences. Aunt Aspie is the wise, gentle and understanding character every person with autism should have not far from their bedside table.
Hugo Horiot, author, France
...Whether you are on the autism spectrum or someone you know is or even if no one you know is and you just like learning about new things this is a great read.
Vexing Circumstance blog
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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The A to Z of ASDs - Aunt Aspie's Guide to Life by Rudy Simone | 3 | ||
Foreword | 7 | ||
Acknowledgements | 9 | ||
Disclaimer | 11 | ||
Introduction | 13 | ||
A | 15 | ||
Abnormal | 15 | ||
Accomplishments | 15 | ||
Acting | 16 | ||
ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) | 16 | ||
Adversity | 18 | ||
Advice | 19 | ||
Ageism | 19 | ||
Aging on the spectrum | 20 | ||
Androgyny | 21 | ||
Anger | 21 | ||
Animals | 21 | ||
Anti-social | 22 | ||
Anxiety | 23 | ||
Approval | 24 | ||
Arranging things | 24 | ||
Asperger’s | 25 | ||
Authenticity | 27 | ||
Autism, causes of | 28 | ||
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) | 30 | ||
Awkward | 31 | ||
B | 31 | ||
Babies | 31 | ||
Being taken advantage of | 31 | ||
Bigotry | 33 | ||
Black and white thinking | 34 | ||
Bluntness | 34 | ||
Body image | 35 | ||
Breakups | 36 | ||
Budgeting | 38 | ||
Bullying | 38 | ||
Burning bridges | 41 | ||
C | 42 | ||
Candida | 42 | ||
Character | 42 | ||
Clichés | 43 | ||
Clothing | 44 | ||
Cognitive issues | 44 | ||
Comorbids | 44 | ||
Competitiveness | 45 | ||
Compliment | 46 | ||
Condescension | 46 | ||
Confidence vs. arrogance | 47 | ||
Conflict and confrontation | 47 | ||
Consideration for others | 48 | ||
Conversation | 49 | ||
Counseling | 50 | ||
Creativity | 51 | ||
Crisis | 52 | ||
Criticism | 53 | ||
Crush | 54 | ||
Cynicism and optimism | 55 | ||
D | 56 | ||
Dating | 56 | ||
Death | 59 | ||
Deficits | 60 | ||
Depression | 60 | ||
Diagnosis | 62 | ||
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) | 63 | ||
Diet | 63 | ||
Disability | 65 | ||
Discipline and organization | 66 | ||
Disclosure | 67 | ||
Do-it-yourself (DIY) | 70 | ||
Doctor visits | 71 | ||
Drinking to cope | 72 | ||
E | 73 | ||
Eating disorders | 73 | ||
Eating “non-foods” | 73 | ||
Echophenomena (echolalia, palilalia and echo-praxia) | 76 | ||
Education | 78 | ||
Eidetic and photographic memory | 79 | ||
Emotions | 80 | ||
Empathy | 81 | ||
Employment and self-employment | 82 | ||
Epiphany | 84 | ||
Escapism | 84 | ||
Executive function | 85 | ||
Exercise | 86 | ||
Expectations | 88 | ||
Eye contact | 89 | ||
F | 91 | ||
Face blindness | 91 | ||
Facial expression | 91 | ||
Fame | 92 | ||
Family dysfunction | 93 | ||
Forgiveness and memory anomalies | 95 | ||
Freaks, geeks and the art of being uncool | 96 | ||
Friend | 97 | ||
Fun | 99 | ||
G | 99 | ||
Gastrointestinal issues (leaky gut) | 99 | ||
Gender issues | 101 | ||
Gossip | 104 | ||
Gratitude | 105 | ||
Grooming and hygiene | 105 | ||
Groups | 106 | ||
Gynecology visits | 107 | ||
H | 107 | ||
Happiness, joy and hope | 107 | ||
Health | 109 | ||
Helpful | 109 | ||
Hermit | 109 | ||
Holidays | 110 | ||
Honesty | 114 | ||
Humiliation | 115 | ||
Humility and humor | 116 | ||
Hyperlexia | 117 | ||
Hypersensitivity | 117 | ||
I | 118 | ||
Identity | 118 | ||
Imagination | 119 | ||
Immunization | 119 | ||
i-muscles | 120 | ||
Independence | 120 | ||
Insomnia | 121 | ||
Instincts and intuition | 121 | ||
Intelligence | 123 | ||
Introspection | 124 | ||
IRL | 124 | ||
Irlen lenses | 125 | ||
J | 126 | ||
Joint attention | 126 | ||
Joking | 126 | ||
Journaling | 128 | ||
Judgmental | 128 | ||
K | 128 | ||
Know-it-all | 128 | ||
Knowledge | 129 | ||
L | 130 | ||
Labels | 130 | ||
Listening | 131 | ||
Literal thinking | 132 | ||
Love | 133 | ||
Luck, karma and success | 133 | ||
M | 134 | ||
Machines | 134 | ||
Manifesting | 135 | ||
Manners | 135 | ||
Masturbation | 136 | ||
Math | 136 | ||
Maturity | 137 | ||
Medication | 138 | ||
Meditation | 141 | ||
Meltdowns | 142 | ||
Mental illness | 143 | ||
Mimicking | 144 | ||
Misdiagnosis | 145 | ||
Misunderstood, being | 146 | ||
Money | 148 | ||
Monologuing | 149 | ||
Motivation and self-motivation | 150 | ||
Mutism | 152 | ||
N | 152 | ||
Narcissism, egocentrism and Machiavellianism | 152 | ||
Negativity and chronic complaining | 153 | ||
News programs | 154 | ||
Neurotypicals (NTs) or non-autistics (NAs) | 155 | ||
Nightmares | 155 | ||
Normal | 156 | ||
Nostalgia | 156 | ||
O | 157 | ||
Obesity | 157 | ||
Obsession | 159 | ||
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) | 160 | ||
P | 161 | ||
Paranoia | 161 | ||
Parenting | 162 | ||
Pedantry | 164 | ||
Periods (menstruation) | 165 | ||
Perfectionism | 167 | ||
Playtime | 168 | ||
PMS (PMT) | 168 | ||
Pooping, peeing and other body functions | 170 | ||
Pop culture | 171 | ||
Popular and unpopular, being | 172 | ||
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) | 172 | ||
Poverty | 173 | ||
Power | 175 | ||
Probiotics | 175 | ||
Profanity | 176 | ||
Proprioception | 176 | ||
Prosopagnosia | 177 | ||
Q | 178 | ||
Questions | 178 | ||
Quiet | 178 | ||
Quitting | 178 | ||
R | 179 | ||
RAADS-R | 179 | ||
Rejection | 179 | ||
Relationships | 180 | ||
Religion | 185 | ||
Resistance | 186 | ||
Respect and self-respect | 186 | ||
Rest and relaxation (R&R) | 187 | ||
Rigidity | 188 | ||
Ritual and routine | 188 | ||
S | 190 | ||
Savant | 190 | ||
Selective mutism (SM) | 190 | ||
Self-advocacy | 192 | ||
Self-centered and selfish | 193 | ||
Self-esteem | 194 | ||
Self-improvement | 195 | ||
Self-pity | 197 | ||
Sensory issues | 198 | ||
Sex | 200 | ||
Sexism | 203 | ||
Sexual abuse | 206 | ||
Shopping | 209 | ||
Sleep issues | 212 | ||
Smiling | 214 | ||
Social imagination | 215 | ||
Social media (SM) | 215 | ||
Socializing IRL (in real life) | 219 | ||
Someday | 222 | ||
Soothing behaviors | 222 | ||
Speech delay | 224 | ||
Sports | 225 | ||
Step-parenting | 226 | ||
Stimming | 227 | ||
Strengths, abilities and challenges | 228 | ||
Stress and panic attacks | 228 | ||
Substance abuse | 230 | ||
Suicide/suicidal thoughts | 232 | ||
Surprises | 236 | ||
Swearing | 237 | ||
T | 238 | ||
Tact and diplomacy | 238 | ||
Talent | 238 | ||
Television | 240 | ||
Theory of mind | 240 | ||
Transitions | 241 | ||
Travel | 243 | ||
Trolls and trolling behavior | 246 | ||
Trust | 248 | ||
U | 249 | ||
Uncertainty | 249 | ||
Underestimated | 250 | ||
V | 251 | ||
Vacations | 251 | ||
Validation | 251 | ||
Victim | 251 | ||
Video games | 252 | ||
Violence | 253 | ||
Virility | 254 | ||
Vitality | 254 | ||
W | 255 | ||
Wanderlust | 255 | ||
Weird | 255 | ||
Working out | 256 | ||
Writing | 256 | ||
Y | 257 | ||
You know you’re an Aspie when | 257 | ||
Z | 258 | ||
Zen | 258 | ||
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