membership COMMUNITY
Monthly Socials Just For Us
See our Community Guidelines for details on Autastic Live Events.
Everyone deserves access to a community of peers.
Access to all Autastic social clubs are free for three months.
After, choose to cancel or contribute $9.99/mth to fund the same access opportunity for others.
If you’re autistic and you’re a person of colour, odds are good that the many ways that you experience life aren’t often reflected back at you. That can be isolating and make life harder than it needs to be.
Community + Belonging = Joy
Come be in community with people who understand the real deal of living in our gorgeous, melanated skin.
This is 100% social time. This space is for us to relax, have a laugh, and get to know others who experience life in familiar ways. No lessons. No homework. No pressure.
Your first three months of live events are *FREE* to attend. On the fourth month, your membership fees will begin. All fees directly fund the cost of maintaining Autastic. You’re free to cancel at any time (contact-free!)
Autastic was founded by me, Diane. In everything I do, I strive to put melanin first. My identities include being a multiply invisibly disabled, #AuDHD, biracial Black woman. I approach everything in my life through an Afrocentric, disability justice-informed lens.
Even though I have facilitated group discussions and workshops for 15+ years and am formally educated in inclusion and accessibility practices and trauma-centred approaches, Autastic remains #ByUsForUs. Every member co-creates the experience we wish to have. It takes a village.
We are a “come as you are” community so however you arrive is brilliant. Take breaks. Hang in the chat. Build that model plane you’ve been working on. It’s all good. Participate as you feel comfortable.
Pro tip: pets are always welcome.
Autastic clubs are your social time. Skip some events or just hang out off-camera. Make the most of your membership in ways that work for you.
Community is a gift to ourselves and many of us make it the one priority every month we look forward to. If you can’t make it? You can still feel good about supporting an experience of belonging for others. Win!
Wondering what’s okay to say or if someone’s crossed a line? All Autastic communities follow one core set of values and one shared code of conduct: The Autastic Community Guidelines.
I’m overwhelmed in a good way because, for the first time ever, I’m in a space where I can just be me without all the extra work.
Coming from a military background, it’s great to find a space where I can explore my new identity with people who see me.
*Identities withheld for privacy. Images are models.
Come experience what it’s like to belong.
Autastic BIPOC Social Club.
Every 1st Monday @ 1PM PT.
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