Autistic Parents' Support Group

Meetings this month and next

The meetings listed below are online chat meetings (text-based). To view the meeting details (including a link to our chatroom), you must first join our Meetup.com group (and be logged in to Meetup.com) if you have not done so already.

• Thursday, May 2, at 7:00 PM. (See meeting details, find chatroom link, and RSVP here.)

• Thursday, June 6, at 7:00 PM. (See meeting details, find chatroom link, and RSVP here.)

About the Autistic Parents' Support Group

The Autistic Parents' Support Group is an autistic peer-led group of parents who are, themselves, on the autism spectrum. (Their children may, or may not, be autistic too.) The group's purpose is to support each other in coping with the responsibilities of being a parent..

We aim to be a demographically diverse group, welcoming autistic parents of all ages (18+), races, national origins, sexual orientations, and gender identities.

Meeting times will be listed, for now, on the Meetup site of Autistic in NYC / Queens.

Some relevant online resources.

Below are resources we think many autistic parents will find helpful and/or relatable.

Note: We do not necessarily endorse the entire contents (including wording choices and larger agendas) of all of the resources below. However, if you feel or believe that any of the articles below contain anything harmful or offensive, please feel free to bring this up in one of our chat meetings.

• How to Parent as an Autistic Person: "How Autistic Adults Raise Kids," by Lisa Jo Rudy, updated on October 22, 2023

• The Strengths and Struggles of Being Autistic Parents by Jeremy Brown, Autism Parenting Magazine, November 27, 2023.

• Autistic parent of an autistic child by Ronnie Pinder, Living Autism.

• Interview: Mothers with autism: "I mothered my children in a very different way": "Women with autism are twice as likely to be undiagnosed as men. Amelia Hill speaks to four mothers who only recognised their own condition after researching their children's behaviour," by Amelia Hill, Guardian, UL, April 15, 2017.

• Navigating Autistic Burnout as an Autistic Parent by Danielle Aubin, LCSW, "My Autistic Therapist," Autism Spectrum News, October 2nd, 2023

• The Strengths and Struggles of Being an Autistic Parent

• The Joys and Challenges of Being a Parent With Autism by Sarah DeWeerdt, The Atlantic, May 2017

• Being a parent on the autism spectrum (PDF), March 2017