The Autistic Guide to Communicating and Connecting

An analytical approach to Autistic communication and socializing which is deepened by Niamh Garveys’s lives experience and respecting each others’ differences.

Acknowledgements
• introduction
part 1: Communication
• Chapter 1: An introduction to Autistic communication
• Chapter 2: Making communication a two-way street
• Chapter 3: Getting to know Our Own Autistic communication differences, difficulties and disabilities
• Chapter 4: Alternative communication methods for both speaking and non speaking AUtistic Adults
• Chapter 5: Choosing which AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) to use
• Chapter 6: How to improve your own communication experience: the helps or hinders habit
• Chapter 7: Communication between Autistic Adults
part 2: socialising
• Chapter 8: Socialising as Autistic Adults
• Chapter 9: Masking and unmasking
• Chapter 10: Friendships and social connection: the ups and downs
• Chapter 11: Managing a social life
• Chapter 12: The six step social plan
• Strategy templates
• References
• Glossary and abbreviations
• Subject index
• Author index

Niamh Garvey is an autistic author living in Ireland. She has a Diploma in Autism Studies from the University College Cork and is also a registered general nurse. She writes about Autism and neurodiversity.

Autistic people communicate differently to non-Autistic people, but that does not equate to communicating ‘wrong’. In fact, research has found that Autistic people communicate much more successfully than non-Autistic people when communicating with other Autistic people (Crompton,Ropar et al.,2020). However Autistic people are in the minority,our differences clash with how the majority of people communicate, and this leads to us having many challenges with social communication, along with non-Autistic people having challenges communicating with us.