Resources list
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Jobs
- Jobs for the neurodivergent
- Inclusive
- Neurodiversity at the workplace
- Jobs in food service
- Worldwide opportunities on organic farms
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Books
- List of books on autism
- ND-Friendly Workbook of DBT Skills
- Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life &Autism
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Therapy / Help
- Directory of specialists diagnosing ASD
- For Austin paid live musicians
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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)
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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/
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Neurodiversity
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What is Neurodiversity?
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ADHD
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Self Assessment
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Skills
- Body Doubling: part 1, part two
- Emotional dysregulation
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Autism
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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
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Marginalized identities
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Theories
- Theory of autism: Monotropism
- Tendril Theory (challenge of being interrupted / switching tasks)
- Is it invalidation trauma?
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Burnout
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Sensory overload
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Masking
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Mental health
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Social/spatial disability
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X & Y
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Gender