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Here's a list of some of my favourite websites to do with neurodivergence, specifically Autism and ADHD. I'll add to the list if I find any more good ones. Let me know if you have any recommendations!

Neurodivergent Insights

Key Features: Blog, Shop, Community, Training, Digital Downloads

Content: Autism, ADHD, Education, Practical Advice, Lived Experience

Something I liked: The Autistic and ADHD Nervous System

NeuroClastic

Key Features: Nonprofit, Blog, Shop, Digital Downloads

Content: Autism, Education, Lived Experience, Research, Advocacy

Something I liked: What Is Autism?

Reframing Autism

Key Features: Nonprofit, Blog, Training, Digital Downloads, Podcasts, Webinars, News

Content: Autism, Education, Practical Advice, Lived Experience, Advocacy

Something I liked: Autism Essentials (free course)

All Brains Belong

Key Features: Nonprofit, Blog, Community, Training, Digital Downloads

Content: ADHD, Autism, Education, Advocacy, Lived Experience, Practical Advice

Something I liked: Everything Is Connected to Everything: Improving the Healthcare of Autistic and ADHD Adults

Neurodivergent Narratives

Key Features: Blog, Podcasts

Content: ADHD, Education, Lived Experience

Something I liked: Neurodivergence, Intersectionality & Me

Embrace Autism

Key Features: Blog, Screening Tools

Content: Autism, Education, Practical Advice, Lived Experience

Something I liked: Autism & Camouflaging

ADDitude

Key Features: Blog, Screening Tools, Shop, Community, Digital Downloads, News, Podcasts, Webinars

Content: ADHD, Education, Practical Advice, Lived Experience

Something I liked: Understanding Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria

Neuroqueer

Key Features: Blog

Content: Autism, Education, Lived Experience, Advocacy, Research

Something I liked: Throw Away the Master's Tools: Liberating Ourselves from the Pathology Paradigm

ASAN (Autistic Self-Advocacy Network)

Key Features: Nonprofit, News, Digital Downloads

Content: Autism, Advocacy, Education

Something I liked: Welcome to the Autistic Community

Autistica

Key Features: Nonprofit, Blog

Content: Autism, Education, Research, Lived Experience, Advocacy, Practical Advice

Idk when I was younger, you could just go and go and find exciting new websites full of whatever cool things you wanted to explore. An overabundance of ways to occupy your time online.

Now, it's just... Social media. That's it. Social media and news sites. And I'm tired of social media and I'm tired of the news.

You're right that the internet is smaller than it used to be, but there's still some cool stuff left in the corners. I'd recommend checking checking out Neocities if you haven't--it's an independent web hosting platform like Geocities of the old web, and there are hundreds of interesting and active pages discoverable both through their search function and through web buttons (links attached to small pictures with the title of a website) within the websites themselves. Here are three examples of web buttons you may find in link pages:

Most Neocities websites have link pages or button collections with anywhere from tens to hundreds of these. Don't be afraid to explore!

If you're looking for something more like a search engine, I can point you towards Marginalia. It's not a particularly smart engine, but it's perfectly usable if you've ever been taught to use search engines back when they were mostly run through keywords instead of full sentence comprehension. There's also an "about" and "tips" section on the front page with more information. The algorithm of Marginalia can be filtered by the user to allow, disallow, or require JavaScript depending on your needs, plus there are filters designed specifically to prioritize web 1.0 sites or mostly text-based ones. It is possible to search for modern websites with it, but it can return websites from just about any decade (since the invention of the web, obviously) so long as they contain the information you're looking for. For example, here are some random interesting sites I've found using Marginalia:

Native Languages of the Americas: Native American Cultures

BASIC HTML COMPETENCY IS THE NEW PUNK FOLK EXPLOSION!

Earthbound Text Labs by Bill Eager

The possibilities for discovery are truly endless.

Now you might want to know about directories. These make browsing for websites easier, but require you to read through and judge which ones to visit, as there aren't algorithms ranking the sites besides the whim of whoever coded the directory. Some of them have themes, others don't. Here are two that I've used:

Yesterlinks Directory

Ichigo Directory

Directories can be harder to come by just by surfing the net, but they aren't impossible to find. Many personal websites have their own directories of interesting sites hidden within them.

Webrings are similar to directories, but are actually more community-based. You have to register your website to be a part of a webring, usually by sending an email to whoever runs it and meeting some kind of entry criteria. For example, my personal website used to be a part of a webring called Sweet Dreams, which was for websites that heavily utilize color palettes and images of cute things, particularly sweets. Webrings will give you access to a widget upon entry that allow visitors and other members to browse between the registered websites in a massive ring, ergo, where the term gets its name. Webrings can have any theme or criteria for entry. If you can make a website about it, you can find a webring for it.

Now, you might be wondering about social media alternatives. I can't offer much, but I can nudge you towards the idea of forums. Here's one I found that could really use some traffic. I also browse a bit on MelonLand forum, which is actually closed right now--it's currently closed on Mondays--but on any other day of the week, you can find a fun community there dedicated to web revival. You can find it through MelonLand's main page. I'd also recommend checking out SpaceHey, which is a MySpace clone that's customizable and easy to use.

It's not common, but every so often I run across a baby mouse that has crawled into a discarded peanut shell. It's usually body armor but sometimes it can be headgear also.

I call them Peanut Knights. This fuzzy has a quite stylish open-face helmet!

Here she is without her helmet:

make a little mitten shape, a bump for the big thumb muscle, a line for where you want to knuckles to be (and where the fingers end), and you can work out how the hand does hand things~

you can make them more simple or more real, however you want! hands are weird, so don’t worry if they keep looking wrong for a while, once you figure out what works for you, it’ll click. If you practice like 10 or-so basic hand shapes, you can make slight variations on all those, and 10 turns into 20 different hand poses~

I use full fat Greek yoghurt and self-rising flour

Ratio by weight

Add a pinch of salt

Knead until no longer sticky, adding more flour if necessary

Roll them with olive oil instead of flour and fry in an otherwise unoiled, preheated pan (medium heat) (trust in the lord; it will seem like it's going to stick to the pan at first but they'll unstick in about 15 seconds)

Roll them thin but not too thin; mine take about 45 seconds on either side

Allow me to spread the word of Loose Ends. From their website:

“Loose Ends Project aims to ease grief, create community, and inspire generosity by matching volunteer handwork finishers with projects people have left unfinished due to death or disability.”