Ever since the publication of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time there's been a huge demand for books about autism and aspergers, whether fact or fiction.
The number of autobiographies by people with autism has rocketed and surprisingly nearly half of them are by women - unusual given that 80 per cent of those diagnosed with the condition are men.
Jane Little talks to Dr Irene Rose who's organising a conference on autism and its representation and by Jeanette Purkis author of Finding a Different Kind of Normal on her experiences of living with the condition.
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Finding a Different Kind of Normal by Jeanette Purkis, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, ISBN: 1843104164.
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