astroned wrote:
> Gday everyone,
>
> The book and gentlemen you spoke of has (apparently) been of use for
> my family to establish a better understanding of there son and
> brother. Does anybody have a list of resources (books,videos, etc)
> that would help both myself and my family understand who i am...?
>
In the post I made the other day I mentioned Tony Attwood - he lives
most of the time
in Australia even though he is English, and some people refer to him as
St. Tony!

I believe he will be in Scotland some time this year though.

One good book is his "Complete Guide to Asperger's syndrome" which was
published
last year and has been very useful to me. Smaller than that but often
quoted is Liane
Holliday Willey's book "Pretending to be Normal". This is a good
resource - both of these
books talk about adults and realistically as well. Both Liane and one of
her daughters
has AS so her book can and does talk from both perspectives. Its also
good for other
people to help realise who we are, so this may be something you are
looking for.

Videos I don't know much about but Mozart and The Whale which I
mentioned is about
a man and a woman who both have AS and the love affair between them. Its
really good
- my wife and I watched it and she was laughing out loud at the
parallels between me
and Donald - the male lead in the film.

John Wright