Ian Ford Software Corporation A Field Guide to Earthlings: An autistic/Asperger view of neurotypical behavior

Really enjoyed it. Highly recommended. Quite amusing in places. Enjoyed the change of perspective: describing neurotypical people from the perspective of an autistic man. Refreshing and accurate (although some of the examples are extreme, but this is to help make the point). I wish there were more books that described ASD in this way.

Stimulating and challenging to my NT brain. Revelatory. A chance to look at yourself from totally diffrent perspective. Brilliant book. Thank you Ian.

A wonderful text, everyone with Asperger's syndrome must have this book from youth like a perfect handbook for his life. Very accurate.

I worked with people on the autism spectrum for several years and read many books designed to help understand people with autism. Those were helpful but this book takes things to another level. Ford describes NT behaviour as viewed by someone with autism with clarity and wit to the point that NT behaviour appears quite absurd sometimes. People with autism have a huge contribution to make to society if given the opportunity to make their voices heard. I highly recommend this book for anyone, with our without autism, to help them understand themselves and others.

This is one of the most insightful books on the subject I have ever read. I have been mystified my entire life at the behaviour of NTs. This book, I am pleased to say, has done wonders in terms of explaining that behaviour. I found it difficult (more accurately annoying, angering, frustrating) that NTs would talk endlessly about things that bore no relevance, exchange virtually no real information, and laugh mindlessly at things regarding which laughter was not a reasonable or logical response. Ian Ford's book lays it all out there, explaining why they do these things. It has helped me down from what may have seemed my judgemental high horse. I can never be one of them (an NT; I'm just not wired for it) but at least I find them considerably less annoying and easier to be around, having learned that their seemingly illogical and unnecessarily life-complicating behaviours are rooted in an innate comprehension of complex social interconnectedness and non-verbal understandings I lack. I can't claim to understand them, but at least now I know why they do what they do. Thank you, Ian Ford, for having written so insightful a book, one so packed with the most useful and relevant information. It has made a difference.