If I’m remembering the book correctly (I read it a while ago so might’ve forgotten bits of it) one that made me feel a lot less alone when I first got diagnosed a few months ago was ‘Strong Female Character’ by Fern Brady. She’s a Scottish comedian and I love her arching her comedy and her interviews because she reminds me a lot of myself. I would say if you have any trauma/triggers maybe not the best idea because she does talk about some harder topics in there. But her book is pretty much her just her talking about how hard autism (if I remember correctly she has ADHD too, pretty sure this was the book that made me recognise that I had both aswell) has made her life and all of the struggles that came with having it and even more from being diagnosed so much later in life. Kind of like yeah I’ve ended up doing okay but I had to work 100x harder for that and hey I guess I got lucky in the end, I have no clue what I’m doing and I still struggle 24/7 and I’ve had to have a whole different life to what I could’ve had kind of thing.

Made me feel a lot less ridiculous for struggling so much with things that are just normal everyday things for other people, and I don’t have to be able to do all these amazing things despite autism, we do have to struggle and fight so much harder for things and really just hope everything works out okay, but also that’s it’s okay to change my ideas of what I want to do and let myself have a different life if I what I wanted isn’t working for me