Resources

These resources for further support and education center lived experience. 

Emergency Supports

Crisis Support Disclaimer:
If you are in crisis, remember that you are not a problem to solve; you are a person deserving of care, dignity, and support.

  • If you or someone you know is in immediate, life-threatening danger and you are considering calling 911, pause for a moment first.

  • Emergency response systems in the United States are not always trauma-informed, and responders may not be trained to support individuals in mental health distress.

  • If you’re unsure about your safety, consider reaching out to a warm line, a peer support network, or an identity-affirming crisis service instead.

Warmlines

Warmlines don’t call the police

Hotlines

Hotlines are places you would call that are like 911 but for mental health

  • Maryland Crisis Line 2-1-1

  • Howard County Crisis Line: 410-531-6677

  • The Trevor Project (24-hour crisis intervention/suicide hotline for LGBTQ youth): 866-488-7386

  • Crisis text line- text HOME to 741741

  • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 9-8-8

  • National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233 or text START to 88788

Additional Crisis Support Resources

  • Offers a Crisis Toolkit with resources for people in crisis, and people supporting loved ones in crisis, using a consent based approach.

    • In this resource for providers, we suggest steps on how to best support an autistic LGBTQ+ individual with active or passive suicidal ideation. We also include common terms, myths, and experiences relevant to suicidality in autistic LGBTQ+ individuals.

  • The peer support groups included here can be valuable for building connection, community, and ongoing support systems with folks sharing in lived experience.

  • This team has created multiple resources for supporting Autistic folks experiencing suicidal ideation and the health professionals they interact with.

Neuro Affirming Resources

    • That’s Me! Autistic Lives Unfiltered - Hosted by Kory Andreas, LCSW-C where she explores the worlds of late diagnosed, high masking adults through real, unfiltered conversations.

    • Full Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent kids with Debbie Reber

    • Divergent Conversations
      The Divergent Conversations Podcast is hosted by Patrick Casale and Dr. Megan Anna Neff, two AuDHD mental health professionals and entrepreneurs, as well as features other well-known leaders in the mental health, neurodivergent, and neurodivergent-affirming community.

    • Neuroversity
      A weekly podcast about neurodiversity with a purpose to expand our understanding of what that term means, elevate the life experiences of the neurodivergent, and advocate for a more inclusive and informed culture.

    • AuDHD Flourishing with Mattia Mauree
      Host, Mattia Maurée (they/them), shares research findings, lived experience, and what they've learned from coaching over 120 neurodivergent folks.

    • Two Sides of the Spectrum
      A place where we explore research, amplify autistic voices, and change the way we think about autism in life and in professional therapy practice.

    • The ADHD Lounge
      The ADHD Lounge podcast is hosted by Katy Weber & Alex Gilbert. Whether you are someone with ADHD or a learning disability, or just curious to learn more, this is the podcast for you.

    • Women and ADHD with Katy Weber
      A late diagnosis turned her world upside down. Join Katy Weber each week as she interviews other women who discovered they have ADHD and are finally feeling like they understand who they are and how to best lean into their strengths, both professionally and personally.

    • Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)
      The Autistic Self Advocacy Network seeks to advance the principles of the disability rights movement with regard to autism. ASAN believes that the goal of autism advocacy should be a world in which autistic people enjoy equal access, rights, and opportunities.

    • Autistic Women & NonBinary Network
      The mission of Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN) is to provide community support, and resources for Autistic women, girls, transfeminine and transmasculine nonbinary people, trans people of all genders, Two Spirit people, and all people of marginalized genders or of no gender. AWN is committed to recognizing and celebrating diversity and the many intersectional experiences in our community.

    • Lives in the Balance
      Lives in the Balance advocates against punitive, exclusionary disciplinary practices in schools, families, and treatment facilities, and advocates for interventions that are effective, compassionate, proactive, and collaborative, including the model we disseminate, Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS). We provide vast, free resources on the CPS model on this website, and provide training on the model globally.

    • PDA North America - a non-profit, 501(c)3, that offers a number of resources, trainings and supports to the PDA community & professionals that support them.

HAES Resources

    • Maintenance Phase - Hosts Michael Hobbes and Aubrey Gordon debunk the junk science behind health and wellness fads.

    • The Body Trust Podcast - a podcast for collective healing

    • Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison - a podcast dedicated to critiquing diet and wellness culture.

    • Rethinking Wellness with Christy Harrison - Critical thinking and compassionate skepticism about wellness and diet culture, and reflections on how to find true well-being.

    • What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon - Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive of plus-sized people’s experiences. Unlike the recent wave of memoirs and quasi self-help books that encourage readers to love and accept themselves, Gordon pushes the discussion further towards authentic fat activism, which includes ending legal weight discrimination, giving equal access to health care for large people, increased access to public spaces, and ending anti-fat violence. As she argues, “I did not come to body positivity for self-esteem. I came to it for social justice.”

    • “You Just Need to Lose Weight” and 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon - In “You Just Need to Lose Weight,” Aubrey Gordon equips readers with the facts and figures to reframe myths about fatness in order to dismantle the anti-fat bias ingrained in how we think about and treat fat people. Bringing her dozen years of community organizing and training to bear, Gordon shares the rhetorical approaches she and other organizers employ to not only counter these pernicious myths, but to dismantle the anti-fat bias that so often underpin them.

    • Wellness Trap by Christy Harrison - From the paradigm-shifting author of Anti-Diet comes a deep dive into the underbelly of modern wellness culture and how it stands in the way of true well-being “It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle.” You've probably heaAnti-Dietrd this phrase from any number of people in the wellness space. But as Christy Harrison reveals in her latest book, wellness culture promotes a standard of health that is often both unattainable and deeply harmful.

    • Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison - In Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison takes on diet culture and the multi-billion-dollar industries that profit from it, exposing all the ways it robs people of their time, money, health, and happiness. It will turn what you think you know about health and wellness upside down, as Harrison explores the history of diet culture, how it’s infiltrated the health and wellness world, how to recognize it in all its sneaky forms, and how letting go of efforts to lose weight or eat “perfectly” actually helps to improve people’s health—no matter their size.

LGBTQIA+2S Affirming Resources

Recent Resources

Stay tuned here for my most recent reads and listens - on deck for this week:

Nervous System Care & Healing Podcast Episode with Liz Zhou: Nervous System Regulation: Why Self-Care & Collective Care Matter

Gender IQ Podcast Episode with Jess Romeo PMHNP, LCSW-C: On Raising Trans Kids with Rebecca Minor

ADHD Body and Mind: A Compassionate Guide to Rewilding Your Nervous System with Neuroscience, Nutrition and Gut-Brain Health by Dr. Miguel Toribio- Mateas

The New Perimenopause By Dr. Mary Claire Haver