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Are Asperger’s Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder the Same?

By Arlin Cuncic — 2021

While often confused, Asperger’s and social anxiety are different

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Autism Adulthood: Insights and Creative Strategies for a Fulfilling Life

One of the biggest fears of parents with children with autism is their looming adulthood and all that it entails.

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Susan Senator
2025
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We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation

“This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It’s also my love letter to autistic people.

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Eric Garcia
2025
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For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home

In 1974, playwright Ntozake Shange published For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf. The book would go on to inspire legions of women for decades and would later become the subject and title of a hugely popular movie in the fall of 2010.

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Keith Boykin (editor)
2012
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Gender Identity, Sexuality and Autism: Voices from Across the Spectrum

Bringing together a collection of narratives from those who are on the autism spectrum whilst also identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and/or asexual (LGBTQIA), this book explores the intersection of the two spectrums as well as the diverse experiences that come with...

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Eva A. Mendes, Meredith R. Maroney
2019
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Ask a Therapist: Is There a Connection Between Neurodiversity and the LGBTQIA+ Community?

The short answer, yes and no. This is a question I get REGULARLY, and honestly never knew how to answer it.

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2021
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Trans 101: Neurodiversity

This video was written, filmed, and edited by trans/gender diverse young people.

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2018
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The Full Spectrum: What’s It Like to Be Gay and Autistic?

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2018
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Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Autism Spectrum Disorder

In this webinar, Eileen Crehan, Ph.D., orients listeners to concepts and terms, and the state of science relating to sexual orientation and gender identity in autism.

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2020
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Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman

In this candid, first-of-its-kind memoir, Laura Kate Dale recounts what life is like growing up as a gay trans woman on the autism spectrum.

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Laura Kate Dale
2019
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Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant

Bestselling author Daniel Tammet (Thinking in Numbers) is virtually unique among people who have severe autistic disorders in that he is capable of living a fully independent life and able to explain what is happening inside his head.

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Daniel Tammet
2007
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