Public Neurodiversity Support Center

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Mykola Bilokonsky

Welcome to the

Public Neurodiversity Support Center

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! This is a project created and maintained by

@Mykola Bilokonsky⁠

and got its start as an outgrowth of his work with the Neurodiversity Employee Resource Group at

Mode Analytics

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Current Highlights

As of right now, if you read one thing here, please read

How To Talk About Autism Respectfully

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. If you read a second, check out

Humanizing the DSM's Definition of Autism

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If you are on the fence about the validity of Autistic self-diagnosis, please read

On Autistic Self-Diagnosis

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for a perspective shift that you may find helpful.

Resources

This document contains four primary resources:

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Essays A collection of writing on a wide range of topics across all aspects of Neurodivergent life.

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Neurotypes From ADHD to Tourettes, learn about different neurotypes here!

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Resource Center Get the information you need, now.

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Survey Towards a quantitative definition of Neurodiversity

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There’s also a

Public Feedback

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form available to submit any feedback you may have, positive or negative, and, should you feel so moved, there is a

Support Us

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page for financial support of this project.

Site Updates

[April 2022]

I just migrated

Humanizing the DSM's Definition of Autism

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from Reddit, updated it and republished it here as the new canonical location for this essay.

Mailing List

Don’t forget to sign up for our

Mailing List

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, we’ll never send you anything you didn’t opt into. You can subscribe to be notified of new essays, changes to the site, or when I drop the survey data.

About Us

Us is mostly me,

Mykola Bilokonsky

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. I’ve been toying with variations on spaces like this for a few years now, and this is the version I’m finally ready to invest time and energy into.

This place is intended as a community resource and centralized repository of information about neurodiversity. The essays I’m writing and hosting are coming from places of lived experience, and represent challenges that real people overcome and insights that we’ve had on our own journeys of healing and self-acceptance.

Who am I? I’m just Myk, a goofball and software engineer who experienced really bad autistic burnout shortly after his self-diagnosis at age 34. It took me about three years of therapy, a formal confirmation of autism and a surprise diagnosis of ADHD to rebuild a strong sense of identity, and a large part of that has been the work that I’ve done to share my own growth with others like me but who lack the resources I used to get help.

I encourage you to take everything I say with a grain of salt, and to use the public feedback form to help me put forward the best possible version of this site that I can.

Contributing

This is at its core a one-person passion project but I couldn’t do this without the help of the broader neurodivergent community. Please take a moment, if you have one, and help me out by submitting

neurodivergent Twitter accounts here

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, and

neurodivergent resources here

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I also publish