Resources
I cannot vouch for all the services listed, but they are a place to start.
Lower Cost Therapy & Support
(None of these are autism specific.)
Pay What You Can Peer Support
Warmlines
NYC Well Talk Text Chat 1-888-NYC-WELL
Open Path Psychotherapy Collective
Footprints Mental Health Counseling
National Institute for the Psychotherapies Treatment Center
Diagnosis
(I don’t diagnose autism.)
Thriving Wellness Center
Bethanie Milford, LCSW
Spectrum Psych Services/Kate Cody, PsyD
Self diagnosis is valid, but please note if you expose yourself to diagnostic tools before an evaluation, the validity of its results might be affected.
With that out of the way, Embrace ASD has a bunch of good stuff.
If you are a licensed health care professional who is
Autistic Friendly and Knowledgeable
Please consider joining the TriState Directory & Network
Autistic Adults 101 for Clinicians
Why Everything You Know About Autism Is Wrong, Jac den Houting’s TedTalk
Interview with Amara Brooke, PhD
Autism in the Therapy Room by Caroline Hearst
Milton’s Double Empathy Problem
Donna Henderson’s new books
Critical Discourse on The Narrative (selections)
Interrogating Normal: Autism Social Skills Training at the Margins of a Social Fiction by Karla McLaren
M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness
Nick Walker, Neuroqueer Heresies
Autism, Inc.: The Autism Industrial Complex, Broderick & Roscigno
Robert Chapman on Psychology Today
Autism Info (by Autistics)
Neuroclastic (good place to start might be here)
Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism
The Inside of Autism by Kieran Rose
Fergus Murray on Monotropism
Autistic Burnout
Dora Raymaker’s presentation for Seattle Children’s Hospital on AASPIRE’s research
Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network’s infographic guide.
Amelia Nagoski, co-author of Burnout, has a YouTube channel.
Doing More by Doing Less, article by two Australian autistic therapists.
Autism as a Disability
(some autistic people identify as disabled and some do not—it’s complicated)
Autistictic lays out Models of Disability
Tiffany Hammond in medias res on the subject
Andrew Solomon on invisible disability
Autistic people might refer to spoons they do or do not have
Complicating kindness towards disabled people by Rebekah Taussig (AKA a gentle introduction to ableism)
Masking
Pierson & Rose, A Conceptual Analysis of Autistic Masking: Understanding the Narrative of Stigma and the Illusion of Choice
Jodie Smitten’s master’s thesis
I am not a coach.
But if it’s what you need…
These people offer more concrete guidance:
Executive Functioning/Organization
Learn from neurokin, eg. How to ADHD
Friendship & Social Life
Autistic Adults NYC Meetup Calendar
Felicity House
Devon Price’s Guide to Making Friends