Resources

I’ve gathered these resources over years of practice and personal learning. Neurodiversity is at the heart of this list — and you’ll also find sexuality and relationships, mental health, disability justice, and anti-racist learning, because none of these parts of our lives exist separately from the others.

Every resource here is either created by the community it serves or grounded in lived experience — because we should never learn about a community without hearing from it.

Understanding neurodiversity

Neurodivergence is far broader than autism and ADHD alone. It includes — among many others — bipolar and other mood conditions, borderline and other personality-related experiences, OCD, anxiety and trauma-related conditions, epilepsy, synesthesia, dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, sensory processing differences, tic disorders, and schizophrenia.

Neurodivergence can also be acquired, not only innate — through traumatic brain injury, stroke, prolonged trauma, and other life experiences that reshape how a mind works. If the way you think, feel, learn, or experience the world diverges from what society calls “normal,” you may find yourself reflected here — whatever your diagnosis, and whether you were born this way or became this way. All of it counts.

• Lived Experience Educator (livedexperienceeducator.com) — Sonny Jane Wise’s free infographics, the Neurodiversity Affirming Checklist, and quick guides on burnout and meltdowns. Start with the Terms & Definitions download, and don’t miss the original Neurodivergent Umbrella graphic — the single best visual answer to “what counts as neurodivergent?” (spoiler: far more than autism and ADHD).
• Neurodivergent Insights (neurodivergentinsights.com) — clinician- and lived-experience-informed articles, workbooks, and webinars by Dr. Megan Anna Neff.
• Dr. Nick Walker — Neuroqueer (neuroqueer.com) — Dr. Walker is one of the neurodiversity movement’s foundational theorists; her essays on the neurodiversity paradigm are freely available on her site, and Neuroqueer Heresies collects a decade of them in print. Essential reading for understanding the movement’s framework, not just its vocabulary.

Disability justice

Neurodiversity-affirming practice is inseparable from disability justice — the movement led by disabled queer and trans people of color that asks us to value every body and mind, recognize interdependence, and resist all forms of oppression together.

• Sins Invalid — 10 Principles of Disability Justice (sinsinvalid.org) — the framework itself, created by Patty Berne, Aurora Levins Morales, and Sins Invalid. A plain-language edition is also available. Read these slowly; they’ll change how you practice.
• Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Disability Justice Primer (Sins Invalid) — the expanded primer for going deeper into the framework.
• Stimpunks Foundation (stimpunks.org) — community care and human-centered learning grounded in both neurodiversity and disability justice.

BIPOC neurodivergent community

Neurodivergent people of color face significant diagnostic disparities — Black and Latinx children are underdiagnosed with autism and overdiagnosed with behavioral disorders, and Indigenous children have the lowest diagnosis rates — which makes identity-affirming resources and clinicians doubly important.

For clients and community:

• Autism in Black (autisminblack.org) — neurodivergent-led education, advocacy training, and support centering Black autistic people and their families.
• Fireweed Collective — free, peer-led online support groups, including spaces specifically for QTBIPOC and for disabled/chronically ill/neurodivergent BIPOC folks.
• Mental Health Liberation — provides the BIPOC Therapy Fund, offering free, identity-affirming mental health services to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, including multiply-marginalized members of the neurodivergent community.

For clinicians committed to anti-racist practice:

• Neurodivergent Insights — Autism & Diagnostic Disparities in BIPOC Communities — Dr. Neff’s research-informed breakdown of how bias shapes who gets diagnosed, and how to change it.
• Therapist Neurodiversity Collective — “Disability Rights Are Civil Rights” — a clinician-oriented position statement on structural racism, unconscious bias, and the disparities neurodivergent people of color face.
• MSU Autism Lab — Anti-Black Racism Resources for Autism Clinicians — training materials aimed specifically at improving services for Black autistic clients.

Community & connection

• Stimpunks Foundation (stimpunks.org) — a radically inclusive space led by and for neurodivergent and disabled people, blending mutual aid, community care, and human-centered learning.

Sexuality & relationships

Sexuality is part of the human condition, regardless of neurotype — yet sex education is rarely designed for neurodivergent learners. As a certified sex educator (EDSE), this is an area of special focus for my practice. Resources I recommend:

• EDSE (Everyone Deserves Sex Ed) (everyonedeservessexed.com) — accurate, bias-aware, LGBTQIA+ expansive sex, love, and relationship education; the source of my sex educator certification.
• AVEN — Asexual Visibility and Education Network (asexuality.org) — the world’s largest asexual community and resource archive. Given the significant overlap between asexuality and neurodivergence, this is essential reading.
• AUREA — the aromantic-spectrum counterpart to AVEN, volunteer-run with education and advocacy resources.
• Neurodivergent Insights: Autism & Sexual Diversity — Dr. Eileen Crehan’s research-informed webinar on sexuality and relationship education for autistic individuals.
• Scarleteen (scarleteen.com) — inclusive, affirming sexuality education for teens and young adults, with strong disability and neurodivergence coverage.

LGBTQIA+ identities

Neurodivergent people are more likely to be LGBTQIA+ than the general population — these communities overlap deeply, and exploring one identity often means exploring the other.

• The Trevor Project (thetrevorproject.org) — crisis support and community for LGBTQ young people.
• PFLAG (pflag.org) — support for families and allies of LGBTQIA+ people.
• Neuroqueer Heresies — Nick Walker (see Books) — theory at the intersection of queerness and neurodivergence.

Mental health & wellbeing

• NAMI (nami.org) — education, support, and advocacy for people living with mental health conditions and their families.
• Mental Health America (mhanational.org) — screening tools, education, and resources for finding care.
• Fireweed Collective (fireweedcollective.org) — peer support and Mad Pride-oriented education, led by people who experience madness, trauma, and disability.
• Crisis Text Line (crisistextline.org) — 24/7 crisis support by text; a good number to keep on hand.

Books by neurodivergent authors

• Unmasking Autism — Devon Price, PhD. Masking, identity, and thriving beyond the deficit narrative; especially resonant for late-diagnosed adults.
• We’re All Neurodiverse — Sonny Jane Wise. An accessible introduction to the neurodiversity paradigm.
• Neuroqueer Heresies — Nick Walker. Deeper theory for those who want the paradigm’s philosophical roots.
• All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized, Autistic — edited by Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, Lydia X. Z. Brown, and E. Ashkenazy. An anthology by autistic people of color; indispensable for anyone wanting to understand neurodivergence at its intersections with race.
• Odd Girl Out — Laura James. A Black autistic woman’s memoir of being diagnosed as an adult, after years of being misread by everyone — including the church she loved.
• We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation — Eric Garcia. A Mexican-American autistic journalist’s report from the front lines of autism policy and politics, centering the questions autistic people actually care about.
• Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Essays from a disabled queer Sri Lankan-Tamil writer and healer; foundational disability justice reading that pairs perfectly with the Sins Invalid principles.
• Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life — Alice Wong. The memoir of a disabled Asian American activist and founder of the Disability Visibility Project — fierce, funny, and brilliantly paced for access.

Podcasts & media

• Divergent Conversations — Dr. Megan Anna Neff and Patrick Casale, two neurodivergent therapists, on autism, ADHD, and everyday life.
• The Neurodivergent Woman Podcast — two neurodivergent psychologists on the experiences of neurodivergent women and gender-diverse folks.
• Disability Visibility Project (disabilityvisibilityproject.com) — Alice Wong’s community platform: podcasts, essays, and conversations on disability culture and justice.

For families & allies

• Autism Spectrum News (autismspectrumnews.org) — an extensive free article library for families, partners, and allies.
• PFLAG (pflag.org) — for families of LGBTQIA+ loved ones (also listed under LGBTQIA+ Identities).
• Sex Ed Rescue (sexedrescue.com) — a neurodivergent parent and sexual-health nurse’s practical, shame-free guides for talking with kids about bodies, puberty, consent, and relationships.

For fellow clinicians

• EDSE (Everyone Deserves Sex Ed) (everyonedeservessexed.com) — the sex educator certification I hold; AASECT CE-approved and justice-centered.
• Neurodivergent Insights’ clinician library (neurodivergentinsights.com) — practical, affirming tools for therapy practice.
• Neurodiversity Affirming Checklist (Lived Experience Educator) — a useful self-audit for any practice.
• Therapist Neurodiversity Collective (therapistndc.org) — continuing education and community for neurodiversity-affirming providers.

Last updated: October 12, 2026 — I review, update, and add to this list regularly.