A few books that I found transformative, in the order I read them

Adult Autism

Older Autistic Adults in Their own Words: The lost generation, Wilma Wake PhD, LCSW, et al.

The Complete Guide to Aspergers Syndrome, Tony Atwood.

Funny, You Don’t Look Autistic: A comedian’s guide to life on the spectrum, Michael McCreary.

The Nine Degrees of Autism: A developmental model, Philip Wylie et al.

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the new faces of neurodiversity, Devin Price, PhD

A Field Guide to Earthlings: An Autistic/Asperger view of neurotypical behavior, Ian Ford

Un-Typical: How the world isn’t built for autistic people and what we should all do about it, Pete Wharmby.

The Autistic’s Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a neurodivergent adult, Sol Smith.

We’re Not Broken: Changing the autism conversation, Eric Garcia.

ADHD

ADHD: A Hunter in a Farmer’s World, Thom Hartmann

Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from childhood

through adulthood, Edward M. Hallowell, ,M.D. and John J. Ratey

Still Distracted After All These Years: Help and support for older adults with ADHD, Kathleen Nadeau, PhD

Emotions, trauma, the body, and Alexithymia

Emonthebrain, YouTube

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma, Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

Unlearning Shame: How we can reject self-blame culture and reclaim our power, Devin Price, PhD.

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping meaningful connection and the language of human experience, Brene Brown, Phd, MSW.

Interocaption: The eighth sensory system, Kelly Mahler, MS, OTR/L

Spark: The revolutionary new science of exercise and the brain, John J. Ratey, M.D.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

It’s Not You, Ramani Durvasula, PhD

Running on Empty: Overcoming your childhood emotional neglect, Jonice Webb, PhD

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to heal from distant, rejecting, or

self-involved parents, Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD

The Deepest Well: Healing the long-term effects of childhood adversity, Nadine Burke Harris, M.D.

I Thought it was Just Me (But it Isn’t), Brene Brown, PhD, MSW

The Brain (neuroscience for us lay people)

The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science, Norman Doidge, M.D.

The Brain: The story of you, David Eagleman

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