Patrice Riley - Autistic Women Free Discussion Group - Online and Monthly!

Please note that this group is online and open to all who identify as autistic women all over the world.

Come together in community with other autistic women to share experiences, learn from each other, and be seen, known, and valued.

Each month we join on Zoom to explore one or more aspects of the autistic experience in depth, with an emphasis on how we experience autism as women, and how our experiences may present differently from men’s due to biology and gender conditioning.

This is a warm, inclusive space that aims to validate and affirm the gift of who you are.

In November we’ll begin our group with some introductory questions that all participants are welcome to answer. Then we’ll read an approximately 10-15 minute essay from Wired Our Own Way: An Anthology of Irish Autistic Voices, edited by Niamh Garvey.

The audio version will play, and the Kindle version will display simultaneously, for all to follow along. Afterwards, the group will open for discussion and sharing.

Please leave 90 minutes; the meeting length will depend on the size of the group and the number of shares.

Maximum group size is 15.

Camera on or off is okay.

All who identify as female are welcome.

Whether you’ve known you’re autistic for a long time, you’ve just newly discovered that you’re autistic, or you’re in a limbo space of wondering if you might be autistic at all, you are very welcome here.

Thank you to Niamh Garvey for permission to include the book.

To sign up: https://www.patriceriley.com/autistic-presence#women