Luke Christopher Jackson is an author who rose to fame at the age of 13, when he wrote a book from first-hand experience about what it is like to have Asperger syndrome. The book, titled Freaks, Geeks, and Asperger Syndrome': A User Guide to Adolescence created a sensation and greatly increased general awareness of the condition.
Luke Jackson has three sisters and three brothers. One of his brothers, Joe, has AD/HD (Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder), and another brother, Ben, is autistic. Luke Jackson, his mother Jacqui Jackson and the rest of their family were featured in a documentary on BBC2 (UK television) discussed on the BBC website.
Luke also recorded a column for BBC Radio 4's programme Home Truths.
A User Guide to the GF/CF Diet for Autism, Asperger Syndrome and AD/HD (2001) ISBN 9781843100553
Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence (2002) Foreword by Tony Attwood # ISBN 1843100983 # ISBN 978-1843100980
Crystalline Lifetime: Fragments of Asperger Syndrome (2006) ISBN 9781843104438
Asperger Syndrome in the Adolescent Years (2003) Edited by Liane Holliday Willey, Foreword by Luke Jackson, ISBN 9781843107422 (aka Asperger Syndrome in Adolescence: Living with the Ups, the Downs and Things in Between)
Multicoloured Mayhem: Parenting the Many Shades of Adolescence, Autism, Asperger Syndrome and AD/HD (2003) by Jacqui Jackson, ISBN 1-84310-171-8