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Welcome. If you’re here, you may be searching for understanding, validation, or tools to help navigate a world that wasn’t always built with your brain in mind. This journey of self-discovery can be empowering, but it can also be overwhelming to sift through endless information.
Our mission with this page is to provide a comprehensive, curated, and affirming list of resources for neurodivergent individuals and their families. We have gathered high-quality, community-recommended organizations, books, podcasts, and tools to support you. This is a living resource, designed to be a place you can bookmark and return to whenever you need guidance or a sense of community.
These organizations are run by and for neurodivergent individuals, offering essential perspectives, guides, and advocacy.
Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN): A national organization run by and for autistic people, offering vital resources, policy advocacy, and community-building projects.
Neuroclastic: A collective of autistic writers providing in-depth articles, essays, and perspectives from the lived experience of the autistic community.
Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN): Provides community, support, and resources specifically for autistic women, girls, trans, and nonbinary individuals.
The Arc: A national organization that provides support and advocacy for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, with local chapters throughout North Carolina.
For Adults & Parents
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price, PhD: An essential guide to understanding autistic masking and the process of living a more authentic, supported life.
Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed for You by Jenara Nerenberg: Explores the experiences and strengths of neurodivergent women, who have often been overlooked in research and diagnosis.
We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation by Eric Garcia: A powerful book by an autistic journalist that dispels common myths and reframes the conversation around autism.
Driven to Distraction by Dr. Edward M. Hallowell and Dr. John J. Ratey: A foundational book that provides a compassionate and comprehensive look at understanding and living with ADHD.
Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman: A comprehensive history of autism that has been pivotal in advancing the neurodiversity paradigm.
For Teens & Older Children
The Awesome Autistic Go-To Guide: A Practical Handbook for Autistic Teens and Tweens by Yenn Purkis & Tanya Masterman: A supportive and practical guide written to help autistic teens navigate the challenges of adolescence.
The Spectrum Girl’s Survival Guide: How to Grow Up Awesome and Autistic by Siena Castellon: An empowering handbook for autistic girls covering topics like friendships, school, and self-care.
Queerly Autistic: The Ultimate Guide for LGBTQIA+ Teens on the Spectrum by Erin Ekins: An intersectional guide offering support and advice for teens who are both neurodivergent and part of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Listen to conversations and stories from neurodivergent hosts, therapists, and advocates.
The Neurodivergent Woman by Monique Mitchelson & Michelle Livock: A podcast featuring two AuDHD psychologists discussing the female neurodivergent experience.
Two Sides of the Spectrum by Meg Proctor: An affirming podcast that explores research and diverse perspectives within the autism community, intended for parents and professionals.
Divergent Conversations by Dr. Megan Anna Neff and Patrick Casale: Hosted by two AuDHD mental health professionals, this podcast explores the nuances of neurodivergence.
ADHD Quick Learner Video by Duke Health: A simple and engaging animated video that explains ADHD, its common signs, and the science behind it.
Connect with affirming communities and advocates on social media for daily insights and support.
Therapist Neurodiversity Collective (Instagram & Facebook): An international collective of professionals dedicated to promoting neurodiversity-affirming practices and education.
Neurodivergent Rebel (Facebook Page): A page run by advocate Lyric Holmans, offering education and resources on neurodiversity from a lived-experience perspective.
Autistic Black Girl (Instagram): An account providing perspectives and raising awareness about the intersection of being Black and autistic.
These tools can provide practical support for organization, focus, and managing daily tasks.
Todoist: A popular task management app that can help with organizing projects, setting reminders, and managing daily to-do lists.
Headspace: A well-known app for guided meditation and mindfulness exercises, which can be helpful for managing anxiety and overwhelm.
Evernote: A versatile note-taking app that helps capture and organize ideas, notes, and documents in one place.
Focus@Will: A service that provides background music and soundscapes scientifically designed to improve concentration and reduce distractions.
These North Carolina-based organizations provide clinical services, support, and resources for the local community.
UNC TEACCH Autism Program: A statewide, university-based program providing clinical services like diagnostic evaluations, parent coaching, and intervention services for autistic individuals and their families across the lifespan.
Triangle Disability & Autism Services: An affiliated chapter of The Arc that supports children and adults with developmental disabilities and autism in achieving their personal goals through partnership and advocacy.
Neurodiversity Empowerment Services: A Triangle-area collective offering psychotherapy, peer support, DBT groups, and parent support groups for neurodivergent individuals and their families.
Explore our articles for deeper insights into common questions and experiences within the neurodivergent community.
7 Types of Neurodivergent Conditions: A Comprehensive Guide
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10 Key Strategies For ADHD Behavioral Therapy
How To Support Someone With ADHD
Neurodiversity-Affirming Therapy: A Guide for Therapists and Families
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To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to