Autism Career Pathways: https://autismcareerpathways.org/fostering-autistic-enterpreneurship-course-outline/–“Cultivating Autistic Entrepreneurship” online courses offered. Aucademy: https://aucademy.co.uk/–“We are a new home for Autistic learning and education of non-autistic people about Autistic experience.” Haley Moss: www.haleymoss.com – Haley is an Autistic advocate, attorney, author, speaker and educator who is active online as @haley.moss.

Yo Samdy Sam: https://www.youtube.com/c/YoSamdySam– Sam is a late diagnostic autistic advocate who creates content on YouTube. Occupational Therapy All Things Autie: https://allthingsautie.com/– Minna Abassi helps auties create sustainable and authentic lives through neurodiversity-affirming coaching. Specialties include: burnout recovery, employment, accommodations, and queer/kink/poly topics. DBT Skills Handbook from Fulton State Hospital: available from a number of sources, including My Journey Through MadnessRobin Tate, LLC: https://robintatellc.com/– Coaching and education services for neurodivergent people and their relationships.

Jim Sinclair: https://philosophy.ucsc.edu/SinclairDontMournForUs.pdf– Jim Sinclair has been regarded as someone who has advanced the neurodiversity movement, including his piece “Don’t Mourn for Us” that he wrote in 1993. Fidgets and Fries: https://www.facebook.com/fidgetsandfries– Tiffany is “disrupting supremacist systems one story at a time” and is active on social media as @fidgets.and.fries. Autistic Women and Non-Binary Network (AWN): https://awnnetwork.org/– AWN’s mission “is to provide community, support, and resources for Autistic women, girls, transfeminine and transmasculine nonbinary people, trans people of all genders, Two Spirit people, and all others of marginalized genders.”Autism Mosque: https://www.autismmosque.org/– “Autism Mosque was started by Sara Mangera, living in England and mother of four. Two of whom are autistic. She wanted Mosques to do more to welcome and accommodate autistic people and generally increase the awareness and acceptance of autistic people within the Muslim community. United Nations figures show that 15% of the population live with disabilities. Sara believed that as Muslims we needed to do more to be inclusive of our disabled brothers and sisters.”

Acceptance and commitment therapy identifies fusion with thoughts and resistance to uncomfortable inner experiences as key sources of distress. The therapy works on increasing psychological flexibility and choosing committed actions based on values. All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism by Lydia X. Z. Brown, E. Ashkenazy, and Morénike Giwa Onaiwu This is where Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills come in! Unfortunately, DBT skills aren't always accessible, straight-forward or neurodivergent friendly. That's why this workbook of DBT skills has been reframed to be neurodivergent affirming while incorporating sensory strategies, managing meltdowns, stimming and more. Written and designed by an autistic ADHDer, you can learn skills and tool using the five sections: Everyday Well-being Mindfulness Distress Tolerance Emotional Regulation Sensory Needs Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN): https://autisticadvocacy.org/– ASAN is a “nonprofit organization run by and for autistic people.” The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of your Differently Wired Brain by Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D.Mental Health Coping Toolkit: has a broad collection of resources to support mental health and well-being Behavioural activation booklets from the NHS: this series of booklets focuses on the behavioural activation aspect of CBT for depression Social Anxiety Group Participation Workbook from Hamilton Family Health Team: a patient manual for group therapy that’s laid out in a way that makes it pretty easy to use on your own Introduction to dialectical behavioral therapy, its importance, and components that make it successful

Autism Network International (ANI): https://www.autismnetworkinternational.org/– ANI was one of the first “autistic-run self-help and advocacy organization for autistic people.” Disability Rights Ohio: https://www.disabilityrightsohio.org/sexual-abuse-report– Disability Rights Ohio has a guidebook on navigating services and systems for disabled individuals who have been victims of sexual abuse. Mentra’s Neurodiversity Employment Network: https://www.mentra.me/– Mentra is a neurodivergent-friendly talent platform that intelligently matches neurodiverse individuals with employers that value their strengths. A detailed description and definition of neurodiversity so that you can realize the challenges that they face and their remedies

This is where Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills come in! Unfortunately, DBT skills aren't always accessible, straight-forward or neurodivergent friendly. That's why this workbook of DBT skills has been reframed to be neurodivergent affirming while incorporating sensory strategies, managing meltdowns, stimming and more. Written and designed by an autistic ADHDer, you can learn skills and tool using the five sections: