We are documenting Autistic culture in our articles, and we are centring Autistic lived experiences via participatory Autistic research, by actively supporting Autistic research projects, by coordinating Autistic peer support, by catalysing the co-creation of NeurodiVentures, and by curating useful tools developed by neurodivergent people for neurodivergent people. As part of the neurodiversity movement, we are curating timeless concepts for nurturing and describing ecologies of care.

The Autistic Collaboration Trust is formally committed to never charge Autistic individuals and their families for any services delivered.

Below is a growing index of Autistic peer support initiatives and Autistic community projects that are designed to progress the neurodiversity movement. The Autistic Collaboration Trust actively coordinates several of these services and projects and refers to further aligned regional or local services and campaigns.

Coordination of related activities occurs in dedicated project specific online workspaces. Please use the form below if you would like to participate in / contribute to one or more of these services and projects.

Services

1. Ecologies of Care peer support model (incremental roll out)
2. Communal definition of Autistic ways of being
3. Articles on Autistic culture, Autistic community, and Autistic wellbeing
4. Autistic Collaboration TV
5. Tools for navigating the social world
6. Lived experience survey: Feeling Safe
7. Lived experience survey: Feeling Safe Growing Up
8. Education in the ND paradigm, the ND movement, and Autistic culture
9. Bullying alert system for employees
10. Employer rating service for inclusiveness and psychological safety
11. Psychological safety baseline data collection
12. Translation of AutCollab.org content

Coordination of related activities occurs in dedicated project specific online workspaces. Please use the form at the bottom of this page if you would like to participate in / contribute to one or more of these services and projects.

Centres of Autistic culture

1. Autism Dialogue, United Kingdom
2. Autistic Collaboration Trust, Aotearoa New Zealand and global
3. Autistic Mutual Aid Society Edinburgh, United Kingdom
4. Autism Rights Group Highland, United Kingdom
5. Edinburgh & Lothian Asperger Society, United Kingdom
6. Existential Autist, United Kingdom
7. National Autistic Taskforce, United Kingdom
8. Neuro Diverse Self Advocacy, United Kingdom
9. Participatory Autism Research Collective, United Kingdom
10. The Future is ND, United Kingdom
11. Autism-Informed Therapy Institute, Ireland
12. Neuroclastic, United States and global
13. Neurodivergent Infinity Network of Educators, Canada and global

Campaigns / projects

1. Ban of conversion therapies
2. A mosaic of Autistic lenses
3. Autistic communities in public libraries
4. Appreciation of neurodiversity in the education sector
5. Appreciation of neurodiversity in the healthcare sector
6. Neurodiversity documentary
7. The Autistic English Dictionary
8. #TakeTheMaskOff, an international campaign dedicated to masking
9. Me.Decoded
10. Activism and protests by Autistic Inclusive Meets, UK

Connect

If you are aware of further initiatives in any part of the world that should be included in this index, please use the form below to provide relevant details for inclusion. You can also use the form to inquire about joining any of the projects listed above.