Neurodiversity Resources
Books
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive 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
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
Women with Attention Deficit Disorder 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
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
Neurocosmopolitanism 2014 Article, Neurodiversity: Some Basic Terms and Definitions
Thrive Global 2020 Article, Why we can no longer ignore "Sensory Intelligence" in the workplace
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
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
Neurodivergent Rebel 2016 Article, What is Neurodiversity? Does it Include People with Severe Disabilities?
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
Aspergers Growth YouTube with Thomas Henley
Highly Sensitive Professionals Group with Linda Binns on Facebook
Maggie Rogers YouTube Interview (example of synesthesia)
Neurodiversity page on Wikipedia
RSA Animate YouTube Video on The Divided Brain
The Art of Autism (nonprofit) website
Free Assessment Tools & 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