resources
~ Autism Screeners (recommended CAT-Q and RAADS-R)
~ Article: Going Beyond the Catch-22 of Autism Diagnosis and Research. The Moral Implications of (Not) Asking “What Is Autism?” - Jo Bervoets and Kristien Hens
~ Blog post: Monotropism: The Most Accurate Autism Theory You’ve Probably Never Heard Of - James Ward-Sinclair
~ Blog post: Me and Monotropism - A Unified Theory of Autism - Fergus Murray
~ Blog post: Revisiting Monotropism - Patrick Dwyer
~ Article: Attention, Monotropism and the Diagnostic Criteria for Autism - Dinah Murray, Mike Lesser, & Wendy Lawson
~ Book: Unmasking Autism: The Power of Embracing Our Hidden Neurodiversity - Devon Price
~ Article: Autism As a Disorder of High Intelligence
~ Article: Autistic Peer-To-Peer Information Transfer is Highly Effective (Evidence for the Double Empathy Problem)
~ Article: The Female Autism Phenotype and Camouflaging: a Narrative Review
~ Article: Exclusion of females in autism research: Empirical evidence for a “leaky” recruitment-to-research pipeline
~ Essay: Autism as a Social Construct - Frank L Ludwig
~ Channel: How to ADHD
~ Book: ADHD 2.0 Hallowell and Ratey
~ Article: How Evolutionary Thinking Can Help us to Understand ADHD - Swanepoel et al.
~ Article: What do general practitioners know about ADHD? Attitudes and knowledge among first-contact gatekeepers: systematic narrative review
~ Article: Genomic analysis of the natural history of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder using Neanderthal and ancient Homo sapiens samples - Esteller-Cucala et al.
~ Article: Diamond Model of Executive Functions
~ Article: Wrong Brains at the Wrong Time? Understanding ADHD Through the Diachronic Constitution of Minds
~ ADHD Treatment and Management Guidelines UK
~ ADHD Treatment and Management Guidelines Australia
~ Dabrowski Center
~ Blog post: What is giftedness?
~ Intergifted
~ Gifted-adults.com
~ The Origins and Conceptual Evolution of Overexcitability
~ Book: Personality-Shaping Through Positive Disintegration - Kazimierz Dabrowski
~ Book: The Gifted Adult: A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius - Mary-Elaine Jacobsen
~ Podcast: Positive Disintegration Podcast
~ Article: The Experiences of Late-diagnosed Women with Autism Spectrum Conditions: An Investigation of the Female Autism Phenotype
~ Article: Finding the True Number of Females with Autism (80% are missed in diagnosis)
~ Article: Diagnosis of Autism in Adulthood: A Scoping Review
~ Post: Changes in DSM-V-TR
~ Article: Interpersonal Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress in Autistic Adults - Reuben et al.
~ Article: ‘‘Having All of Your Internal Resources Exhausted Beyond Measure and Being Left with No Clean-Up Crew’’: Defining Autistic Burnout
~ Article: “People like me don’t get support”: Autistic adults’ experiences of support and treatment for mental health difficulties, self-injury and suicidality
~ Article: “I wouldn’t know where to start”: Perspectives from clinicians, agency leaders, and autistic adults on improving community mental health services for autistic adults
~ Podcast: The Neurodivergent Woman
~ Article: The Relationship between Autism and Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes / Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders
~ PDF: Diagnostic Criteria for Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS)
~ Video: Autism Trauma and PTSD - What’s The Overlap? Autism From The Inside
~ Video: In conversation about Autism, Trauma and Dissociation with Dr Mike Lloyd and Katherine Reuben
~ Workbook: The Neurodivergent Friendly Workbook of DBT Skills - Sonny Jane Wise
~ Blogpost: The Living Hell of Emotional Flashbacks
~ Book: Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving - Pete Walker
~ Book: Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents - Lindsay C. Gibson
~ Commentary: Should CAMH professionals be diagnosing personality disorder in adolescence?
~ Therapist Neurodiversity Collective
~ DivergAntz Collective
Please contact the directories if you would like to be included in them
~ Yale Clark
~ Katy Higgins Lee
~ Tara Kent
~ Facebook: Autistic Adults with ADHD
~ Facebook: Gifted Adults (secular)
~ Facebook: *laughs in neurodivergent*
~ Facebook: Neurodivergent Venting Crew
~ Facebook: Autistic/ADHD Women (AFAB/NB/Trans inclusive) Australia
~ Facebook: Autistic Researchers Researching Autism (ARRA)
~ Facebook: Neurodiversity Affirming Psychologists Australia
~ Facebook: Neurodiversity Affirmative Therapists
~ Facebook: The OTHER Way
~ Facebook: Adult PDA Support Network
~ Facebook: The NEW Lighter-Side of PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance)
~ Reddit: r/aspergirls
~ Reddit: r/ADHDmeme
~ Reddit: r/autisminwomen
~ Reddit: r/aspiememes
~ Reddit: r/autisticadults
~ Reddit: r/ADHDwomen
~ Call 000 in an emergency
~ Call Lifeline on 13 11 14
~ Call Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800 (if aged under 25)
~ Call 1800 RESPECT for sexual assault, domestic and family violence, and abuse support
~ NDIS Access Request Form
~ NDIS Request Review of Decision
~ Autism & NDIS Access
~ Autism Self Advocacy Network
~ Hidden Disabilities
~ Blue Knot Foundation - National Centre of Excellence for Complex Trauma