Internalized Ableism Workshop and
Self-Assessment

Internalized Ableism Workshop and Self-Assessment

November 8th, 2025

Learn how to spot internalized ableism in the context of an adult Autistic/AuDHD life, how it may be affecting you in ways you’ve been trained not to notice, and tips to start dismantling your own neuro-ableism.

Includes an in-depth questionnaire to help you get a sense of how much neuro-ableism is affecting your life. This is information you can use to make better informed choices.

Designed for and from an Autistic/AuDHD perspective.

Saturday, November 8th, 2025

12 PM PST | 3 PM EST | 8 PM GMT | 9 PM CET |

6 AM AEST (Nov 9) | 9 AM NZST (Nov 9)

 

Can’t make the time?
The recording and transcript will be available afterwards.

This is just a quick note to invite you to a workshop I’m putting together on how to identify and start to dismantle internalized ableism in the context of an adult Autistic and AuDHD life.

And specifically on how to notice how it may be affecting you in ways you’ve been trained not to notice, ways that you may be discriminating against yourself, and giving yourself a harder time than you really need to, because it’s been so normalized in our culture that of course you should take the blame, and push yourself, and get on your own case for things that you don’t actually need to.

By the way, internalized ableism is a huge factor in negative self talk and autistic burnout. And we’re gonna be talking about that as well.

I’ve also created an in-depth questionnaire, that I spent over a year working on and refining and fine-tuning, about internalized ableism against our own Autistic and AuDHD brains, so you can get a better picture of how you’re doing, how much this is really affecting your life. Fair warning, it will probably bring up some areas that you hadn’t realized were neuro-ableism, and that might be uncomfortable. But once you notice what’s really going on, you can start to do something about it. You can make intentional choices of if you want to do something about it, and then what.

And in the workshop I’ll be talking a little bit about how to get started dismantling your own neuro-ableism.

So if this sounds of interest to you, and you’d like to approach this from an Autistic and AuDHD perspective, the live workshop will be on November 8, it’s only $25 including the self-assessment and recording. And and yes, it will be recorded and transcribed so if you don’t want to attend live, can’t make the time, want to review it again, or if you find out about this later, you can still get access to all the info and the assessment.

You can get more info and register at www.autismchrysalis.com/ia (for internalized ableism). I hope to see you there.

Internalized Ableism Workshop and Self-Assessment

A workshop and questionnaire to help you get a sense of how much ableism is affecting your Autistic/AuDHD life.

What will this workshop cover?

Have you encountered the terms “ableism” and “internalized ableism,” and want to finally get a good grasp on what they mean? And how they are affecting your life?

Or have you already been learning about them, but are frustrated at not finding much clear info, and are ready to go deeper? 

Do you want to look at this specifically from an Autistic/AuDHD perspective?

That’s what this workshop and self-assessment are for! 

In this 90 workshop, you’ll learn:

  • What internalized ableism is, specifically in the context of an adult Autistic/AuDHD/neurodivergent life.
  • The structural conditions and messages that trained you to discriminate against yourself. 
  • How it breeds negative self-talk.
  • How it contributes to autistic burnout.
  • How to spot neuro-ableism in yourself.
  • Tips to begin dismantling it from your thinking and (eventually) your behavior.

Then dive in deeper with a self-asessment designed to help you become more aware of how much neuro-ableism is affecting you daily, and over the course of your life.

What is the Internalized Ableism Self-Assessment?

This is a tool to help you find ways where you’ve personally been affected, and where you’ve turned ableist messages back on yourself.

It’s over 100 questions, including various real-life scenarios, and some generalized patterns of behavior. There’s also (optional) space for self-reflection along the way, so you can write down thoughts as they come up.

As you go through it, you’ll get a sense of how much ableism is showing up in your life. There might be areas where you think, “Oh, yeah, I guess I do do that,” or “Oh, I didn’t realize I did that,” or “Ooh, that’s ableism? Hunh.” Some of it might feel uncomfortable, while other areas might reveal things you can feel good about.

The idea is to use this as a tool for personal growth, noticing areas of ableism in your life.

Because awareness is the first step towards making progress. Once you start noticing it, you can choose if you want to take action, and how.

About accessibility

  • This is an inclusive, gender-affirming, trauma-sensitive,* and BS-free zone. ALL are welcome.
  • The workshop will be conducted via Zoom Meeting. You are welcome to participate with camera off or on, to listen quietly or communicate via chat or voice, to fidget, move, stimm, tic, or look away throughout. 
  • Live automatic captions will be on. You may turn the chat/self-view off or on as you like.
  • For executive function help, reminders will be emailed at T -1day, -3hrs, -1hr, and an optional SMS at -15min only if phone number is entered on signup.
  • You may submit questions in advance to be answered during the workshop, in case you cannot attend live, and to guide the presenter in making the content.
  • You’re welcome to request other accommodations as needed.


*The presenter is trauma informed and trauma sensitive, but you are the best judge of what you can handle at the moment. Please take care of yourself.

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