Neurodiverse Self Advocacy Forum
The meeting place for the neurodivergent community.
We are a not-for-profit organization
run by autistic volunteers.
We offer an online forum and community
of neurodivergent people who support each other,
problem-solve together and advocate for ourselves as a group.
We want to transform attitudes to autism in society
and develop new services, relevant to us.
Our strengths:
- We are run by autistic adults for autistic adults – we understand you and can provide advice based on our own insight and lived experience.
- We can respond and act on what users are saying (e.g. by developing new services and advocating as a group).
- Users can remain anonymous.
“I entered the autism space by advocating and dealing with my children’s diagnosis and SEN provisions at school. However soon I realised that autism, or then Asperger, was the name for what was happening to me all my life. Watching my girls, I know building positive autism identity is hugely important. I came across some demeaning and dehumanising con-versations about autistic people and realised that equality is not a forgone conclusion. We need to work for it for us and for thesake of our children. So I joined with others to start this group.”
Maria
