Self Help book for Aspie Teen

Does anyone know of a good book for an aspie child who is suffering from anxiety and negative thinking? There must be some kind of self help out there.

Yup! Boy or girl?
I will go pull them together and BRB....

The two big publishers are AAPC ( http://www.aapcpublishing.net/ ) and Jessica Kingsly publishing ( http://www.jkp.com/ )

http://www.aapcpublishing.net/book/v...-need-to-know-

http://www.aapcpublishing.net/book/v...can-award-2011

AAPC has others too if you look around. I have never gone wrong with their books. There is also a version for older teens of the book in the first link but I didn't see it. The Anime book looked good but I have not read it nor do I know the author so I didn't put a link but it is on the AAPC page. I have the manual (1st link) and have talked with the author of the second book.

There is also a book out there about girls on the spectrum and how they are different.

Tony Attwood also has some good books for parents/professionals on helping aspi kids manage emotions

I will keep thinking... I know there are more.

me again

http://www.aapcpublishing.net/author/1/diane-adreon-ma

These are good too. Diane is a friend and AWESOME and practical. As a parent of a kid on the spectrum I would not be without the 1st book and the 2nd on is just plain a must have.

Thank you Omers! Aspie male, I should have said. High enough functioning that most adults just think he's being awkward when it kicks in. He goes from being every teacher's favourite because he's so bright, to being seen as a brat because he melts down and disengages when the noise gets too much in lesson time.

That was me!
I had a college teacher tell me I was no longer allowed to talk in class after the 2nd day because I knew too much about the topic... so I started a study group where we could expand on what we were discussing in class... yup... he got angry and gave me a C in class for it! But is was all art, geometry and religion... I was in HEAVEN!

What a little person your prof was/is.

yeh, but I got the last laugh... he was friends with the head of the department but I was friends with the dean and the president of the college. He never taught there again.

But, when we know a lot about something and love it us aspies can be a bit over the top.

Your prof was an idiot. Funnily enough, I had a similar experience with a tutor at university. She was teaching an Anglo Saxon module, and was putting forth the idea that The Wife's Lament was the oldest poem in English written by a woman. I was putting forward an alternative view, that it was written by a man to portray what was considered the correct attitude for women to have. She thought it was a feminist poem, I thought it was a poem composed by a man to instruct women as to how to behave.

Anyway, part way through the seminar, it dawned on me that all of her quotations from the poem were in modern English, not Anglo Saxon. I stopped translating my Anglo Saxon comments (I'd been translating them for the benefit of the other students) and realised she couldn't understand me. I finally asked her if she'd ever read the original, or just the Oxford Translations.

You can imagine how that went down.

I had the same thing with another tutor, who's name I'll not share since he's very well known. He was leading seminars on Clarissa, an experimental epistolary novel. It dawned on me while I was reading his book on the subject that all the quotes came from the edited version (about a tenth the length of the original.) I accused him of not having read the original book, since if he'd read it he would not have reached the conclusions that he did.

Both those tutors predicted me a third... and yet in my finals those were papers with which I gained a first.

Professors and tutors can be terribly petty. They have their own wee kingdom, and when someone turns up to rattle the foundations, it's pretty grim at times for the student.

ROFL!
I was very fortunate to have a math prof who had a granddaughter with autism and understood me very well. I would go to her with my classes for next semester and she would look over it. She was really helpful at keeping me away from profs with bigger egos than brains!

I also (unintentionally) made friends with some politically high people in the college... mostly because I was too unaware of who they were so just treated them like everyone else.

I'll recommend 'Asperger's Syndrome: the essential guide' by Hilary Hawkes. Published by Need2Know Books (you can get it from Amazon like everything else!). It's available as an e-book (from the publisher) or paperback. The author's husband and teenage son have asperger's syndrome.