OCD Center of LA
This website has resources about dealing with “pure O” OCD, which I didn’t even know was a thing. This site changed my life.
Complex PTSD: From Suriving to Thriving
This book put me on the path towards healing. Written in the early 90s, the author 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. Walker’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 specifically comes 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.