Books, comics, zines, magazines, and writing by autistic and neurodivergent people.
Books by or about autistic and neurodivergent people, including Black autistic authors.
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by Tiffany Hammond · 2023 · Row House Publishing
A New York Times bestselling picture book about a Black autistic boy who uses a tablet to communicate, written by his Black autistic mother. Tender, joyful, and a window into nonspeaking autistic life.
edited by Emily Paige Ballou, Sharon daVanport & Morénike Giwa Onaiwu · 2021 · Beacon Press
Thirty autistic writers — many of them women, nonbinary, and people of color — share what they wish their parents had known. Winner of the Autism Society of America’s Outstanding Literature Award.
by Dr. Devon Price · 2022 · Harmony / Penguin Random House
For adults who suspect they might be autistic — or who have spent a life hiding it. A social psychologist and proud autistic person walks through what masking costs and what unmasking can look like.
Graphic novels and comics about autistic life.
by Sarah Bargiela & Sophie Standing · 2019 · Jessica Kingsley Publishers
A short, beautifully illustrated graphic novel on how autism shows up in women — the masking, the missed diagnoses, the late-in-life realizations. Real interviews, accessible art, easy to share with someone new to the topic.
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Ongoing publications by and for autistic and neurodivergent people. Most are free to read.
by Autism Empowerment · quarterly since 2013
An autistic-led nonprofit magazine published by Autism Empowerment, a 501(c)(3) that pays its neurodivergent writers. Free to read online, with years of archives covering self-advocates, families, and educators.
autistic-run nonprofit
A publication written almost entirely by autistic people, covering autism culture, advocacy, ABA debates, parenting, and lived experience from inside the community.
by Tiffany Hammond · Substack newsletter
Essays from the Black autistic mother who wrote A Day With No Words — on parenting two autistic sons, masking, intersectionality, and the cost of being a public autistic voice. Some posts free, some paid.
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