Resources

Complex PTSD: From Suriving to Thriving

This book put me on the path towards healing. Written in the early 90s Pete gets a few things wrong about Neurodiversity (No, ADHD is NOT a trauma response, though avoidant behavior can be) but offers a rich and productive model for engaging with complex PTSD. Pete’s work has helped me to heal a ton of my damage.

On Trauma

An essay I wrote talking about Trauma and how to address it.

Neurodiversity and Trauma

An essay I wrote that talks about the ways that neurodivergent life can be actively traumatizing for neurodivergent people. This essay is specifically come from an autistic/adhd experience.

On Autistic Cognition

An essay I wrote that discusses pattern matching and the way autistic brains seem to process/consume information.

Neuroclastic

Tera runs a website that hosts content for and by autistic people. This is a great place for authentic #ownvoices autistic content, and Tera makes sure to foster a diverse set of voices from within the autistic community.

AutismTranslated

I created this site as a place to house some of my writing about neurodiversity, and it grew into one of the more wholesome online communities I belong to. Currently at about 14k active users this is a great place to ask questions and clarify your thinking.

Humanizing the DSM Diagnosis for Autism

This was my attempt to “translate” the DSM-IV’s definition of autism into relatable human terms. If you read the diagnosis criteria and thought “That doesn’t sound like me” then you’re not alone, anybody would have a hard time relating to something written as a purely behavioralist description of a purely subjective experience.

Autistic Moods

This is a fun little exercise: scroll through this twitter thread of autistic moods and see how many you relate to.

How to ADHD YouTube Channel

How to ADHD gives a ton of useful advice to ADHDers. The person who runs the channel has ADHD and has made a lot of really helpful/ practical advice on managing the symptoms of ADHD.

Bipolar Club

A non-pathologizing resource with content for and by bipolar people.

Mirror Touch: Notes from a Doctor Who Feels Your Pain

It's a lovely auto-case study by an ND person seeking understanding of self and healing. He uses his medical background to inform his insights, but also draws from his childhood undiagnosed and his path to understanding his synesthesia, it's positives as well as the ways it makes him vulnerable. I wish we could all write and share such interdisciplinary case studies of our brain's with such compassion for ourselves and one another.

Women with ADHD

Overview of why non-cis men tend to be underdiagnosed for ADHD. It helps dispel misconceptions and talk about the neurology and variations in how it manifests itself. The second half of the book offers tips and resources for various aspects of life, from relationships to housekeeping to careers. Very accessible written.

Comic about adhd and autism

This addresses questions about why some people think adhd and autism are part of the same spectrum and why some people disagree.

The Autistic Infodump

TAI is a weekly newsletter focused on the autistic community. Read online or subscribe to have it sent by email each week. Our motto: “More than enough news by, for, and about Autistic people.”

Two Decades with Bipolar Mania and Psychosis

This is a personal essay from guest contributor Bob Yamtich.

More Than One

This is a great comprehensive introduction to plurality, with lots of questions and answers and resources.

The Plural Association Nonprofit

The Plural Association (TPA) is the only, peer and volunteer-staffed nonprofit, empowering all under the Plural umbrella, no matter the labels or words they use, to describe their unique & individual experience(s) with Plurality.

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www.thepluralassociation.com lists all sites, resources, articles, videos, events, meetups, conferences and the many other works by TPA. Including information about the soon to be open ‘The Plural Warmline’ where Systems & their Headmates can share their stories and worries, for free, with trained peer support Plurals!

This is a forum for people with PTSD.

Autistic In NYC

New York City locally-focused resource lists (including peer-led groups, professional-led groups, and professional services) and essays about the autistic adult community (worldwide, Anglosphere at least) and its needed future development.

Schwab Dyslexia and Cognitive Diversity Center

We are center that does research, education, advocacy & outreach, and clinical work.

UC Hastings Law and Neurodiversity

Information on someone who is interested in the intersection of law and neurodiversity

A Team Podcast

Late in life diagnosed autistic artists talk about their life experiences as autistic. The conversations are healing and affirming for many listeners.

Neurodiversity at Work

It’s not perfect, but it’s an introduction to neurodiversity in a professional context.

ADDitude Website/Mag

Provides comprehensive information and articles about ADHD

If You’re Freaking Out, Read This

It provides coping skills for feeling feelings and navigating overwhelming moments as well as with living everyday life