This is a site for people in Virginia looking for resources and the community of neurodiverse advocates, therapy, help, like minds.

Are you a parent, crushed under the weight of a new diagnosis? Do you feel like your child will suffer, never fitting in, forever stigmatized?

Are you a young person who cares deeply about some things but finds people sometimes baffling?

Are you wondering about the people in your life, family, friends, perhaps yourself, feeling something different about you, something that's made you exceptional at some things, but also confused, isolated and even wounded?

You are not alone — it's going to be ok. Great, even! Some day you'll see the confusion, fear, anxiety and shame of this time and realize those feelings signaled the start of your life's most profound and purposeful journeys. Believe it or not, you will be grateful. You will find joy.

Have you been made to feel that you act wrong, you care about the wrong things too much and other things too little?

Have you been told in a million tiny ways that were born broken, that you're a splinter or a puzzle piece, a weird, ruptured thing? That you must be fixed or solved or corrected or trained? That your only hope in life is to act normal, perform tricks, pretend you're someone else, and fake-it through life? Have you been made to feel ashamed?

Are you looking for a place where you can finally release this burden of shame, relax into your own ways and be accepted, for once, not as a broken object, but a living, whole person?