Aspies discussion

I'm getting the feeling that this group has fallen by the wayside, and I want to know if anyone is interested in trying CPR with me? Wanna have a go at reading a book together or discussing books that have helped you?

Anyone there? :-)

I am here Virginia and am up for CPR.

Well I had tried getting some activity going but nothing will happen if others don't show interested in adding to the book list and discussion so I got tired of trying to get things moving. If you want to get things moving that sounds great. If anyone else has read anymore books relevant to the type of group or just books you want to add to the list, that's fine by me. I want to know what you all have read Autism related or not.

I read "Look Me in the Eye," Robeson's book after that, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night," the book by Jodi Picoult about the bot with Aspergers accused of murder, "All Cats have Aspergers," "Raising a Sensory Smart Child," several Tony Atwood books, "Aspergers in Girls" or something like that. Also, the Dead City series by James Ponti has a character with Aspergers, but the dx will be in book 3 which has not come out. My daughter and I figured it out after reading book 1 and are apparently the only ones who saw it and emailed the author to ask him.

the "Asperger's in Girls" do you mean "Asperger's and Girls" by Tony Atwood or "Aspergirls" by Rudy Simone? The second one is the one I have read, I tried to read one of Tony Atwood's books: "The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome" but had a hard time concentrating on it. It wasn't written in a way I could relate. I have also read "Pretending to be Normal" by Liane Willey. I also tried reading a couple of Temple Grandin's books but I couldn't concentrate on those either. I then moved on to the John Clark/Jack Ryan series. I am on the 4th book in the series "The Hunt for Red October."

I actually read excerpts from both, Tony Atwood

And Rudy Simone. Phone sent too soon.

I've read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and the Dragon Tattoo books but I find it hard to find adult fiction that includes autistic spectrum characters. :-(

Try reading The History of Love. While child Alma's brother does not appear to have a dx, I am certain he has Aspergers. Also, do read Dead City by James Ponti. Focus on Molly and Greyson and let me know what you think.

One of my all time favorites is a classic, The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speares. I just got my daughter to read it and she LOVED it. She related to Kit's feeling isolated an misunderstood.

I'll try and get a hold of 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond' and read it as part of my 2014 challenge then. :-)

ah, I will have to check out that one too :)

I love Look me in the Eye as an amazing memoir.

Kana wrote: "Hi, I feel silly asking but I didn't realize the Dragon Tattoo books had aspie characters?
Also, does anyone have a good memoir they can recommend?"

I've been told that there's good arguments for Lisbeth Salander being an aspie.

hhmm - this was written last spring, but I am wondering if this groop, or ANY groop on GR is actually SOCIAL. dyoo all find that's tru? -has any1 MET/befriended, or even swapped BUKS w/ any1? I realize this may seem cynical, but the social apspect hasn't been my experience thusfar ..

David wrote: "hhmm - this was written last spring, but I am wondering if this groop, or ANY groop on GR is actually SOCIAL. dyoo all find that's tru? -has any1 MET/befriended, or even swapped BUKS w/ any1? I rea..."
Yea, I haven't seen the social aspect either on GR.

I don't know about anyone else, but Goodreads is more of a book tracking tool for me than a social networking tool. I might suggest though that, for this group in particular, being for Aspies, that it comes as no surprise that there is little social interaction here. Aspies are characteristically awkward with sociability, right? But maybe that's a good place to START a discussion: ARE we all Aspies here in this group? Do you dislike the term "Aspie" as much as I do? What reasons did you have for joining this group? For me, I'm a book lover, and I'm really Aspie about tracking all the books that pass through my life (especially on GR, since it was the first website of its sort that I came across years ago), and so joining a group called "Aspies" on this site in particular was a sort of tribal inclusiveness thing. If we're on here, then we probably have books AND Aspergers in common. Question is, do we want to discuss things with each other, or do we just want to silently identify with people like ourselves? I think either of those preferences is perfectly acceptable. If you DO want to talk, I'm game. If not, then happy reading!

Yea, that was the main reason I joined Goodreads, was to track the books I was reading and also to find other books that I might want to read. I don't have an official diagnosis but I have read enough about ASD to know that I probably am an Aspie but getting a diagnosis as a female is a lot harder, unfortunately. I actually like the term aspie better than some of the "official" names they have given us. I like the play on words better that Rudy Simone came up with "Aspergirls." I created the group just to see what other aspies were reading, not necessarily for socialization. I have the forum that I created for that and here is the link if anyone is interested in socializing with others on the spectrum http://butterflyscreations.proboards.... if not, that's fine too.

i'm indifferent to the term Aspie - there are so many terms, i'm sorta desensitized to it. it's funny, Wiki~~ lists this as a Social Network - so do other 'lists.' but it seems my non-Aspie counterparts aren't faring much better. sure, i use it to track - so do they ~ but i now think they shud remove all those references to GR as a social network; it clearly isn't

Yes, too quiet here unfortunately! I’ll try to post something.

ha ha! prolly tru; i'm hardly ON this thing. it's SPOSED 2 B a Social Media site, but i just use it to post updates on whatever i'm reading. i got offa FB, X, Insta & Pinterest also. i've joined th sole male loner collective - but i haven't grown the duck dynasty beard_yet