Resources
ND Friendly Life In The Media
https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-04-30/autism-3-vermonters-late-life-diagnoses
Miranda and Amy on All Brains Belong’s Brain Club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gniUS71h3Q0
Books
With books our general advice is “nothing about us without us.” All of the books here come from folks with lived experience sharing their stories, insights, and more. Please exercise extreme caution when accessing books that do not include at least a co-author with lived experience.
The Reason I Jump by Nakoi Higashida
Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight by Nakoi Higashida
A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole by Marian Schembari
Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby
Is This Autism by Donna Henderson and Sarah Wayland
Unmasking Autism by Dr. Devon Price
Laziness Does Not Exist by Dr, Devon Price
Unlearning Shame by Dr. Devon Price
You Mean I’m Not Crazy, Lazy or Stupid by Kate Kelly and Edward Hallowell
Autistic and Black by Kala Allen Omezia
The Autism Industrial Complex by Alicia A. Boderick
How to ADHD by Jessica McCabe
Dirty Laundry by Roxanne Emery & Richard Pink
How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis
I’ll Just Be Five More Minutes by Emily Farris
A Thousand Ways To Pay Attention by Rebecca Schiller
Your Brain’s Not Broken by Tamara Rosier
Small Talk: 10 ADHD Lies and How To Stop Believing Them by Roxanne Emery & Richard Pink
The Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy by Steph Jones
Sensory Trauma: Autism, sensory difference and the daily experience of fear by Dr. Rorie Fulton, Emma Readon, Kate Richardson, & Dr. Rachel Jones space to describe it in detail and tell us why we should make a purchase. Tap into your creativity. You’ve got this.
Podcasts:
https://www.autisticculturepodcast.com/
https://www.understood.org/en/podcasts/sorry-i-missed-this
https://shows.acast.com/neurodivergent-moments
https://www.autismpersonalcoach.com/autismstories
https://systemspeakpodcast.com/
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/loudest-girl-in-the-world
Content Creators:
Content creators often go on to write many of the leading books in the field that are informed by lived experience. Learning from them allows you to tap directly into many of the challenges facing the community.
Jessica McCabe (ADHD)
Cate Ausborn (ADHD)
Roxanne Emery & Richard Pink (ADHD and Autism)