A User Guide to Adolescence by Luke Jackson, a 13-year old with Asperger’s Syndrome. Social morés in adolescence are difficult enough, but the lack of interpersonal perceptual skills in autistic-spectrum disorders can make it an unmitigated disaster from which recovery is difficult. Some of this was gotten at in Mark Haddon’s poignant novel Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, but this gets at it more explicitly.
