Mental Health – General
See also Crisis and Support Helplines as well as Masking and Burnout
Autistic stigma and minority stress – Monique Botha talks to Aucademy
Unlearning Shame with Devon Price (YouTube Video)
Unlearning Shame: How we can reject self-blame culture and claim back our power by Devon Price (Book)
Addictions
The Autistic Substance Abuse Network
Unusual Medicine: Essays on Autistic Identity and Drug Addiction by David Gray-Hammond
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
The experiences of autistic adults who were previously diagnosed with borderline or emotionally unstable personality disorder (Research article)
“It Was Like the Final Piece in the Puzzle for Me”: A Qualitative Study on the Experiences of Autistic Women Initially Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (Research article)
Borderline Personality as a Factor in Late, Missed, and Mis-Diagnosis in Autistic Girls and Women: A Conceptual Analysis (Research article)
Depression
See also Masking & Burnout section above
Depression Versus Autistic Burnout, with Kieran Rose (Video)
Eating Disorders
Scotland
Beat Eating Disorders Scotland offer a helpline, webchat and other resources for anyone with or supporting someone with an eating disorder
Psychosis
Autistic people and psychosis, David Gray-Hammond with Chloe: Aucademy in discussion
Trauma
How Sensory Trauma Affects How We Grow, Develop and Learn – Rorie Fulton and Emma Reardon (Video)
Trauma Geek – Neurodiversity and trauma online study groups, workshops and courses.
Therapy
See also Living a Healthy Autistic Life
Guidance on Therapy
How Therapy Can Traumatise Autistic People with Steph Jones (Video)
The Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy by Steph Jones (Book)
On Being An Autistic Therapist – writing from Autistic therapists, edited by Max Marnau
Directories
Neurodivergent Practitioners Directory from Thriving Autistic – a global directory of therapists, coaches and assessment services
Therapist Neurodiversity Collective – Autistic-led organisation with a directory of neurodiversity-affirmative therapists, therapists are mostly based in the US, Australia and Canada. Also lots of information about what it means to be neurodiversity-affirmative.
Ausome Training’s Directory of Neuro-affirming professionals who have completed training with them, including Counsellors, Psychologists, Coaches, Speech and Language Therapists and Occupational Therapists
Somatics
Neuroqueering Somatics: A conversation at the intersection of neurodivergence and somatic practice (Video) – Nick Walker talks to Katy Higgins Lee about Neurodiversity, Somatic Practice and how it can help to recover authentic Autistic expression and heal from trauma and prolonged masking