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Resources for autistic teenagers

The Know Yourself series offers free resources (videos, PDFs, worksheets) to support autistic teenagers in understanding what being autistic means to them.

Welcome to our Know Yourself series

We know how important it is for you as an autistic young person to develop an understanding of your autistic experience. The Know Yourself series is a set of free resources which includes videos and downloadable guides aiming to support you and others like you to understand what being autistic means.

In the resources you'll hear from young autistic people talking about their experiences and what has helped them. The aim is to offer information and ideas that will empower you to begin to explore your own experiences and understand yourself more.

The series will cover six topics in total over the course of three years. The first four topics, ‘understanding yourself’, ‘energy accounting’, ‘exploring your identity’ and ‘setting yourself up for success’ are available below.

Understanding Yourself

Understanding Yourself guide

This is a downloadable guide, to help with understanding yourself. It’s written and led by autistic people.

See our guide to Understanding Yourself

Understanding Yourself worksheet

This is a downloadable worksheet to accompany the understanding yourself guide.

See our Worksheet: Understanding Yourself

Energy Accounting

Energy Accounting guide

This is a downloadable guide to help you to manage your energy levels, using a technique called energy accounting.

See our guide to energy accounting

Meet our presenter and autistic young people

Watch this short film where our presenter and young autistic people from the third and fourth films in the series introduce themselves;

Exploring your Identity

Exploring your identity Guide

This is a downloadable guide to help with exploring your autistic identity further. It’s written and led by autistic people.

See our guide to Exploring your identity Guide

Setting yourself up for Success

Setting yourself up for success Guide

This is a downloadable guide – all about making sure you have the tools and strategies to make sure you are able to support yourself. It’s written and led by autistic people.

See our guide to Setting yourself up for Success

Know Yourself other resources

Here are some additional resources we used or were made aware of while developing the Know Yourself series.

See our Know Yourself other resources

We want to say thank you to our funder Rayne Foundation.