Resources, websites and book recommendations:
I am not affiliated with any of these organisation’s or people and encourage exploration with an eye to always only taking in/on what feels right and useful to you.
Resources/Sources of Support and Information:
ADDitude, is an online magazine with lots of topical news, resources and informations about ADD and ADHD.
ADDA offers support, information and community to ADHDers and is lived experience led.
The Adult Autism Practice offers neuro-affirmative, collaborative autism and ADHD assessments online.
ASAN (Autistic Self Advocacy Network) is a fantastic resource. They have tons of information, toolkits, and resources. They provide up-to-date information and support for self-advocacy, policy change, and community building.
Autistic Girls Network, a fantastic selections of resources for autisitic people who identify as female.
Autistica have created a well-being app, which offers tips, links to articles and resources and a way to track how you’re doing.
AutAngel, Community, support and resources run by and for autistic people.
Autscape offer conferences created by and for autistic people on a wide range of relevant topics.
Amythest Schaber, gives some great answers to questions about different aspects of neurodiversity and talks on the experience of being autistic with a lot of skill and from a personal perspective.
The Aphantasia Network, offers community and information on aphantasia.
The British Dyslexia Association, offers advice and information on both dyslexia and dyscalculia
The Dyspraxia Foundation, offers all sorts of advice, support and links to uk based local groups.
Embrace Autism, has lots of ND assessment tools to take for free and read about how they work and what their efficacy is, plus lots of interesting blogs and resources. Not just for ASC. They also offer neuro-affirmative autism assessments.
The Equality and Advisory Service, offer disabled UK residents support, advice and guidance around the equality act and how this may benefit you in your current situation. Useful for work and study based situations.
Helen Edgar is the creator or Autistic Realms, here you will find a plethora of resources, guides and information.
Katherine May, autistic journalist and author has a podcast.
Keiran Rose, has lots of resources, courses and more, his website the autistic advocate is a great place to get info both as autistic people and professionals looking for autism led training.
Lovette Jallow writes and talks about neurodiversity and race. She offers unique and useful insights into the intersection of being black and autistic.
Mainspring Arts, supports neurodivergent artists in a variety of ways, offeirng lots of ND spaces, in person and online, platforming neurodivergent creatives and running lots of interesting courses, workshops and mentoring.
This is a link to a list of resources and websites that offer information, support and more around neurodivergent experiences of Menopause and hormone(s).
This website has loads of information about Monotropism.
NeuroClastic is a great resource. This website is a collective of autistic voices and a fantastic resource for Neurodivergent individuals. It offers a variety of affirming articles, resources, and perspectives from the Neurodivergent community.
Neurodivergent Insights, created by AuDHD psychologist Dr Anna Neff offers lots of resources, blogs and trainings, on subjects pertaining to neurodivergent, autistic and ADHD well being and understanding. Some of which are free to access, others are paid for.
Nick Walker’s website is a foundational resource for anyone seeking to understand Neurodiversity and the Neurodiversity movement. Great for individuals who are interested in the intersection of existentialism, social justice, and philosophy. It is an especially great resource for neuroqueer individuals looking to expand their knowledge and understanding of themselves and the world around them.
This is a link to a Padlet page, that has an enormous amount of links to resources, articles, research, videos on wide ranging subjects relevent to neurodivergent people. It is set out in headings so you can navigate around and find things that may be relevant to you.
Queer neurodivergent writers network, led by writer Jorik Mol, it aims to bring together neuroqueer writers in free online writers groups and workshops.
My Soundcloud where you’ll find mindfulness audio recordings that may feel a little more neurodivergent friendly.
Spectrum Gaming is a UK based, autistic led charity that supports autistic young people and their parents.
StimPunks combines stimming and punks to evoke open and proud stimming, resistance to, and the DIY culture of punk, disabled, and neurodivergent communities. They offer a really wide range of support, from financial and mutual aid, open research efforts to peer support and respite amongst many other things.
Thriving Autistic, have some great free resources and webinars, they have some guidance on disclosure as well as work place accommodations and speaking to new therapists amongst other things. They also have a practitioners directory of neurodivergent identifying counsellors, coaches, therapists and more.
Tourettes Action, offers lots of information advice and resources.
Wrong Planet, offers resources and community to those identifying as autistic or aspergers.
Some AI tools:
Autentik.ai is a plugin developed by autistic individuals to help decode allistic (non-autistic) speech. It assists autistic users in understanding and responding to social communication by interpreting subtle cues and nuances often present in allistic interactions, making conversations more accessible and less stressful (free to use)
Goblin Tools is a set of AI tools made to help neurodivergent people with everyday tasks, like breaking down projects and estimating time. It’s designed to make daily life a bit easier and support those with executive functioning challenges (free to use)
Some podcasts:
SWAN, an autistic led organisation working with women and non-binary people, have a podcast called Autistic Joy, which you can find here
AuDHD psychologist Dr Anna Neff has a podcast calle neurodivergent conversations, which you can find here or search for, Divergent Conversations
Podcast exploring neuroqueerness, you can find it here or search for, What is Neuroqueer.
This podcast explores neurodiversity in women, lots of interesting guest speakers, you can find it here or search for, The Neurodivergent Woman.
Recommendations for professionals looking for training:
Keiran Rose is an autistic advocate who offers affordable on demand courses exploring all things autism.
SWAN offer excellent and affordable trainings led by autistic professionals on a range of subjects
Dr Anna Neff offers on demand and live courses exploring autism and ADHD with a neuroscience perspective.
Dr Luke Beardon teaches post graduate courses in autism studies at Sheffeild University.
Neurodivergent psychotherapist Emma Castledine at Think Neurodivergent offers trainings to neurodivergent identifying therapists.
Some book recommendations:
Divergent Minds, Jenara Nerenberg
Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults, Finn V Gratton
Self Care for Autistic people, Dr. Megan Anna Neff
Neurotribes, Steve Silberman
Explaining Humans, Dr. Camilla Pang
Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults, Dr luke Beardon
What I Want to Talk About, Pete Wharmby
Unmasking Autism, Devon Price
Diary of a Young Naturalist, Dara McAnulty
The Reason I jump, Naoki Higoshida
10 Steps to Nanette, Hannah Gadsby
Queerly Autistic, Erin Ekins
We’re Not Broken, Eric Garcia
How to ADHD, Jessica McCabe
Self Care for People with ADHD, Sasha Hamdani
Order From Chaos, Jaclyn Paul
The Adult Autism Assessment Handbook – D. Hartman, T. O’Donnnell-Killen, Jessica Doyle, Dr.M.Kavanagh, Dr. A.Day, Dr. J.Azevedo
I cannot say I agree with everything contained in all the resources/books/podcasts etc and am definitely not affiliated with any of these, but am sharing as they may be of use or interest.
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