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    • The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
    • By: Naoki Higashida
    • Narrated by: Tom Picasso
    • Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,781 ratings
    • You've never listened to a book like The Reason I Jump....

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    • A Memoir of My Life with OCD
    • By: Allison Britz
    • Narrated by: Emily Ellet
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • Until sophomore year of high school, 15-year-old Allison Britz lived a comfortable life in an idyllic town. But after awakening from a vivid nightmare in which she was diagnosed with brain cancer, she was convinced the dream had been a warning....

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    • By: Philip Schultz
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 550 ratings
    • An inspiring memoir of a Pulitzer Prize winner’s triumph over disability....

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    • A Father's Journey with His Wordless Daughter
    • By: Robert Rummel-Hudson
    • Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • When Schuyler Rummel-Hudson was 18 months old, a question about her lack of speech by her pediatrician set in motion a journey that continues today....

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    • An Autistic Actor's Journey to Broadway's Biggest Stage
    • By: Mickey Rowe
    • Narrated by: Mickey Rowe
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • My name is Mickey Rowe. I am an actor, a theatre director, a father, and a husband. I am also a man with autism. You think those things don’t go together? Let me show you that they do....

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    • A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
    • By: Taylor Harris
    • Narrated by: Iesha Nyree
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • One morning, Tophs, Taylor Harris’ round-cheeked, lively 22-month-old, wakes up listless, only lifting his head to gulp down water. She rushes Tophs to the doctor, ignoring the part of herself that tries to whisper that she’s overreacting....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Jillian Lauren
    • Narrated by: Jillian Lauren
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • Exploring complex ideas of identity and reinvention, Everything You Ever Wanted is a must-listen for everyone, especially every mother, who has ever hoped....

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    • The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum
    • By: Jennifer Cook O'Toole
    • Narrated by: Jennifer O'Toole
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 391 ratings
    • This intimate memoir reveals the woman inside one of autism’s most prominent figures, Jennifer O'Toole. At the age of 35, Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and for the first time in her life, things made sense....

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    • And Other Things I Never Thought I'd Say to My Kids
    • By: Leanne Shirtliffe
    • Narrated by: Trudie Kessler
    • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 217 ratings
    • As a woman used to traveling and living the high life in Bangkok, Leanne Shirtliffe recognized the constant fodder for humor while pregnant with twins in Asia's sin city....

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    • The Remarkable Story of Andrew and Frightful
    • By: Kristin Jarvis Adams
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The award-winning, laugh-out-loud, reach-for-the-tissues story of an autistic boy's desperate struggle to survive a deadly illness and the backyard chicken who transforms his life into a tale of improbable hope and miraculous healing....

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    • An Autism Miracle
    • By: J. B. Handley, Jamison Handley
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • J.B. Handley and his teenage son Jamison tell the remarkable story of Jamison’s journey to find a method of communication that allowed him to show the world that he was a brilliant, wise, generous, and complex individual who had been misunderstood and underestimated by everyone in his life....

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    • How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life
    • By: Paige Layle
    • Narrated by: Paige Layle
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Paige Layle was normal. She lived in the countryside with her mom, dad, and brother Graham. She went to school, hung out with friends, and all the while everything seemed so much harder than it needed to be. A break in routine threw off the whole day....

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    • The Kyan Wise Story
    • By: Kyan Wise, Dustin Hartley
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-24
    • Language: English
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    • For an autistic little girl, the world can be hard to navigate. Her behavior wasn't always understood by the world, and she didn't always ...

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    • A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband
    • By: David Finch
    • Narrated by: David Finch
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 752 ratings
    • At some point in nearly every marriage, a wife finds herself asking, "What is wrong with my husband?!" In David Finch's case, this turns out to be an apt question....

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    • By: Laura James
    • Narrated by: Lucinda Clare
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 260 ratings
    • From childhood, Laura James knew she was different. She struggled to cope in a world that often made no sense to her, as though her brain had its own operating system....

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    • By: Rory Feek
    • Narrated by: Rory Feek
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 341 ratings
    • Now raising their four-year-old daughter, Indiana, alone, after Joey’s passing, Rory Feek digs deeper into the soil of his life and the unusual choices he and his wife, Joey, made together and the ones he’s making now to lead his family into the future.....

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    • The Highs and Lows of My Life on a Little-Known Part of the Autism Spectrum
    • By: Harry Thompson, Felicity Evans - foreword
    • Narrated by: Elliot Chapman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • Diagnosed with pathological demand avoidance (PDA) in his teenage years, Harry Thompson looks back with wit and humour at the ups and downs of family and romantic relationships, school, work and mental health, as well as his teenage struggle with drugs and alcohol....

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    • By: Torey Hayden
    • Narrated by: Tara Ochs
    • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • Just Another Kid is a beautiful illustration of nurturing concern, not only for a few emotionally disturbed children, but for one woman facing a personal battle....

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    • Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
    • By: Peter Stastny, Darby Penney
    • Narrated by: Alex Paul
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 170 ratings
    • More than four hundred abandoned suitcases filled with patients’ belongings were found when Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995 after 125 years of operation....

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