FURTHER LEARNING
Autism
Resources for exploring autism through a neuroaffirming lens to better understanding your needs, identity, and ways of being.
Books
For deeper dives, lived experience, and perspectives you can return to.
Unmasking Autism
A helpful starting point for people exploring autism, particularly those who have spent years masking or adapting to social expectations. Price explores what it can mean to better understand and honor your needs and live more authentically.
Autism in Heels
A memoir about late-identified autism, masking, gender expectations, and the pressure to appear socially typical. It offers one woman's personal perspective rather than a universal account of autistic experience.
NeuroTribes
A historical and cultural exploration of autism, autism research, and the emergence of the neurodiversity movement. It provides context for understanding how ideas about autism have changed over time.
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Autistic-led videos for exploring identity, masking, self-understanding, and everyday life.
I’m Autistic, Now What?
An autistic-led channel exploring masking, late identification, autistic identity, relationships, sensory experiences, and everyday life. Meg combines personal experience, humor, and accessible discussion of autism and neurodivergence.
Visit the channel →Mom on the Spectrum
Taylor Heaton shares her experiences as a late-diagnosed autistic adult, with videos exploring self-understanding, relationships, sensory needs, unmasking, and everyday autistic life. Her work emphasizes curiosity and self-compassion over shame and judgment.
Visit the channel →Listen
Conversations about autism, neurodivergence, identity, masking, and everyday life.
FEATURED PODCAST
Divergent Conversations
DR. MEGAN NEFF & PATRICK CASALE
Hosted by two Autistic-ADHD mental health professionals, Divergent Conversations explores autism, ADHD, AuDHD, masking, burnout, relationships, identity, and mental health through both professional and lived-experience perspectives.
PODCAST
Black Girl Diagnosed
AUTISTIC & DISABILITY-LED
An autistic-led podcast centering Black women navigating neurodivergence, disability, and mental health. Conversations explore autism, ADHD, late diagnosis, masking and unmasking, identity, self-advocacy, and the cultural and medical systems that can shape recognition of neurodivergence.
Not sure where to start?
You don’t need to work your way through everything here. Start with the resource that feels most relevant — or most accessible — to you right now. You might prefer a book when you want to explore something in depth, a podcast when listening feels easier than reading, or a video when you want information in a more conversational format. There’s no right way to learn more about yourself.
