🧠 Neurodiversity Explorer

Clickable resource map • live links • low barrier access
📌 How to use: Click any blue link → it opens in a new tab. Each card is a category. Start with the first 2–3 categories you find interesting. If a link asks for login (Facebook/Instagram), most public posts are viewable without an account. For closed groups, look for “Join” or “Request to Join”.

📘 1. Foundational concepts

Definitions, history & simple explainers

🔹 Neurodiversity for Dummies – Mayo Clinic Beginner overview: neurotypes, social vs medical model 🔹 “What is Neurodiversity?” (animated video) YouTube – 5 min visual introduction 🔹 The Neurodiversity Podcast Judy Singer, history of the movement 🔹 Psychology Today: Neurodiversity 101 Reader-friendly articles + glossary

🧬 2. Science & research perspectives

Peer-reviewed, NIH, evolutionary views

🔹 Research in Autism – Neurodiversity consilience Evolution + philosophy + sociocultural view (open access) 🔹 NIH: Medicalization vs Diagnostic Nihilism “Are you sick? No, I’m neurodivergent” – core tension 🔹 Nature Scientific Reports – Stanford reversal study Gene reversal in mice; comment section debate (original paper) 🔹 ScienceNaturePage – Stanford study comments “cure vs acceptance” debate – real-world tension

🗣️ 3. Lived experience & community

Peer support, parent groups, Spanish-language

🔹 Neurodivergent Community (Meetup) Global online events – unmasking & social connection 🔹 Grupo De Apoyo Autism247 – Ibet Bahena 🇪🇸 Spanish-language support, 3.2K members, free workshops 🔹 BBC Sport Scotland – Simon Murray Dads Group Football meetups for fathers/male carers of autistic kids 🔹 Autism Awareness (parent page) “Who in your family has autism?” – huge lived-experience dataset 🔹 r/AutisticAdults (Reddit) Daily peer advice, self-advocacy, low-demand reading

🛠️ 4. Practical apps & tools

VR, workplace inclusion, school frameworks

🔹 Misty Forest VR (academic study) ADHD attention patterns → shared momentum game 🔹 Autism Knowledge Gateway – VR/social-simulation Facebook reel + research mentions (ask for Quest subgroup) 🔹 NeuroSpicyCommunity – weekly VR meetups Meta Quest social practice, peer-led 🔹 Job Accommodation Network (JAN) – Autism Workplace adjustments: noise cancelling, flexible hours, written instructions

⚖️ 5. Skeptics & good-faith debate

Scientific pushback, institutionalization, cure debates

🔹 Kimberly Kitzerow – comment threads Glutamate receptors, plagiarism accusations, Matilda effect 🔹 Life With Severe Autism – genetics & group home debate Vaccine/environment, medical marijuana, institutionalization safety 🔹 ScienceNaturePage (again) – core tension Neurodiversity vs severe parents – real time debate 🔹 Diagnostic Nihilism (NIH full text) “The danger of denying neurodevelopmental disorders entirely”

🌍 6. Cross-cultural & global

Low-income countries, UN data, collectivist cultures

🔹 Frontiers in Psychology (2024) – LMIC employment 15–20% employment rates, informal work & stigma 🔹 UN Disability & SDGs Global data on inclusion, education, and policy gaps 🔹 WHO – Disability & neurodevelopment Country-level reports + intersectoral interventions 🔹 Cultural adaptations in autism support (NAS UK) South Asian, Black, and migrant communities

🌀 7. Embodied knowledge & culture

Posthumanism, neurodivergent culture, identity politics

🔹 Culture & Psychology – beyond neoliberal identity Karen Barad, agential realism & neurodivergent agency 🔹 Autistic Empire – Embodied knowledge library Stimming as communication, sensory citizenship 🔹 @autistictic (IG) Daily embodied culture, low-text infographics

🔍 8. Easy search starters

Pre-made search links (Google / PubMed / Facebook)

🔹 Google: peer-reviewed autism employment 🔹 Google Scholar: mGLU5 autism 🔹 Facebook search: autism dads group 🔹 Facebook search: autismo grupo apoyo (Spanish) 🔹 PubMed (NIH): thalamic autism neurobiology