Neurodiversity Resources
Books
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Dr. Elaine Aron
The Highly Sensitive Parent: Be Brilliant in Your Role, Even When the World Overwhelms You by Dr. Elaine Aron
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin
Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed for You by Jenara Nerenberg
Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities by Nick Walker
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Adults by Paula Prober
A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD: Embrace Neurodiversity, Live Boldly, and Break Through Barriers by Sari Solden
Mirror Touch: Notes From a Doctor Who Can Feel Your Pain by Joel Salinas
Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined by Scott Barry Kaufman
Wellspring of Compassion: Self-Care for Sensitive People Healing from Trauma by Sonia Connolly
Presence After Trauma: Reconcile with Your Self and the World by Sonia Connolly
Embodying Hope: Living in Difficult Times with a Difficult Past by Sonia Connolly
Making Work Work for the Highly Sensitive Person by Barrie Jaeger
Sensory Exotica: A World Beyond Human Experience by Howard C. Hughes
Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman
Milkweed Editions announcement of Multiverse, a literary series devoted to different ways of languaging
Talks
The World Needs All Kinds of Minds by Temple Grandin @ TED2010
Unlocking the Secret Power of Sensitivity at Work by Caroline Ferguson @TEDxDrapanosWomen
The Orchid and the Dandelion by Dr. Thomas Boyce @TEDxPaloAlta
Gifted, creative and highly sensitive children by Heidi Hass Gable @TEDxLangleyED
Harvard Neurologist Joel Salinas w/ The Neurodiversity Project on Synesthesia
Blogs, Articles, Facebook, and YouTube Channels
NeuroQueer 2014 Article, Neurodiversity: Some Basic Terms and Definitions
Thrive Global 2020 Article, Why we can no longer ignore "Sensory Intelligence" in the workplace
Greater Good Science Center 2023 Article, The Superpowers of Sensitive People
Jenara Nerenberg's 2020 Medium Article, What the Future of Psychology Looks Like
The Highly Sensitive Person 2017 Article, About High Sensitivity, Autism, and Neurodiversity
Autism in Adulthood 2021 Article, Towards a NeuroQueer Future: An Interview with Nick Walker
Pocket 2022 Article, ‘A Lot Fell Into Place’: The Adults Who Discovered They Were Autistic—After Their Child Was Diagnosed
Mel Atkins' 2022 Article on Puttylike, Living the Good Life as a Multipotentialite With ADHD
Forbes 2018 Article, Take Good Care of Your Highly Sensitive Team Members
PNAS 2015 Article, Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic
New York Times Magazine 2016 Article, What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
Yahoo 2017 Article, Introducing Yahoo’s Neurodiversity Employee Resource Group
Fast Company 2017 Article, What Neurodiversity Is And Why Companies Should Embrace It
Forbes 2016 Article, Your Sensitivity Is A Career Superpower. Here’s How To Use It
10 Principles of Disability Justice (PDF) by Patty Berne and Sins Invalid
Roy Richard Grinker's University of Chicago Press 2019 Article, Autism, “Stigma,” Disability: A Shifting Historical Terrain
The Neurodivergent Rebel Site, Blog & Podcast
The Neurodivergent Rebel’s list of Autism & Neurodiversity Resources
Your Rainforest Mind Blog by Paula Prober
The Embracing Intensity Community with Aurora Remember Holtzman
How to ADHD on YouTube
René Brook’s site & blog, Black Girl. Lost Keys. Educating & Motivating Women with ADHD
The Neurodiversity Project on YouTube
NeuroQueer: The Writings of Dr. Nick Walker
Maggie Rogers YouTube Interview (example of synesthesia)
Neurodiversity page on Wikipedia
RSA Animate YouTube Video on The Divided Brain
Sins Invalid, a disability justice performance project that centers people of color, queers, nonbinary and trans people with disabilities
Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)
The Art of Autism (nonprofit) website
Positive Disintegration blog and podcast with Emma Nicholson and Christiane Wells
Free Assessment Tools and Resources
Cognitive Processing Inventory (free, Online) offered by LDinfo Publishing
Highly Sensitive Person Self-Assessment by Dr. Elaine Aron
Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) Assessment
Excitability Self Assessment from Aurora Remember at Embracing Intensity
ADDitude Magazine’s ADHD Self-Test for Women
Dabrowski's Overexcitabilities and the Theory of Positive Disintegration
Self Compassion Self Assessment from Dr. Kristin Neff