Resources list

• Jobs

• Jobs for the neurodivergent
• Inclusive
• Neurodiversity at the workplace
• Jobs in food service
• Worldwide opportunities on organic farms

• Books

• List of books on autism 
• ND-Friendly Workbook of DBT Skills
• Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life &Autism
• A Pony in the Bedroom -- Susan Dunne

• Therapy / Help

• 💩 you feel like shit 💩 (a self care game)
• Directory of specialists diagnosing ASD 
• For Austin paid live musicians

• Groups

• Group.io of Austin Adult Autistics support group 
• Avoid supporting non-autistic led "charities"
• Running effective groups 
• Being a good facilitator 
• Venues & Accessibility
• Making decisions online 
• Resolving / addressing group conflict 
• Diagram of meeting short hand signals 
• Collective Process (zine)

Autism Groups

• Avoid supporting non-autistic led "charities"
• Group.io of Austin Adult Autistics support group 
• Worldwide List of autism support groups on Meetup
• Worldwide Autism resource forums
• Plano support group
• DFW support group

• Science

• How to spot bad science reporting
• Doing your own research: 
• Beware of TikTok self help! Try going to PubMed for science info. You can search keywords and then click "timeline" to filter so you only get results from the past few years. On an article, find the "DOI" number and use it here for free access to the full article: https://sci-hub.se/ 

• Neurodiversity

• What is Neurodiversity?

• Meltdowns in adults
• Social language theory of neurodivergence

• ADHD

• Self Assessment

• ADHD Self report scale
• Get a diagnosis online

• Skills

• Body Doubling: part 1, part two
• Emotional dysregulation

• Autism

• ASD Self assessment

 

• Raads (65+ points indicates the possibility of ASD, guide at bottom of the page)
• Aspie quiz (compare autistic / neurotypical traits in adults, to give a reliable indication of the possibility of ASD)
• CAT-Q (helps to ID masking, especially if you don't currently meet diagnostic criteria due to masking your autism)
• Empathy Quotient (tests your ability to tune into how someone else is feeling, or what they might be thinking)
• Adult repetitive behaviors questionnaire

• Marginalized identities

• BIPoC & Autism
• Women & Autism
• My adult diagnosis story (blog)
• Trans + Autism
• Nonspeakers on the term "non-verbal"

• Theories

• Theory of autism: Monotropism
• Tendril Theory (challenge of being interrupted / switching tasks)
• Is it invalidation trauma? 
• Is it autism or am I just quirky?

Executive Function impairment

• Executive dysfunction
• Inertia: trouble starting tasks (+ another explanation)
• Having outsized stress from changing routines
• Tunnel Vision
• Clumsiness (proprioception issues)

• Burnout

• Autism & Burnout
• How to spot Autistic Burnout
• Meltdowns in adults

• Sensory overload

• Meltdowns and shutdowns
• Do sounds make you anxious?
• Hallucinations & Autism
• Hypo/hyper-sensitivity to smell
• Sensory "diet"

• Masking

• Costs of camouflaging autism

• Mental health

• Psychosis & Dissociation
• Cognitive Distortions

• Social/spatial disability

• How autistics experience emotions differently
• Intense Connections
• Handling autism in family settings
• Pathological Demand Avoidance
• Non-Verbal Learning Disability

• X & Y

• Adhd & Autism Overlap
• Schizophrenia vs Autism
• Adhd & Depression
• Adhd or ODD & racial bias
• Adhd & Tourette Syndrome
• Adhd & OCD

• Gender

• Compulsory Heterosexuality ("CompHet")
• LGBTQIA+ Second adolescence
• Second queer adolescence
• (Video)  Biological Sex Constellation