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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 covers six topics in total and has been developed over the course of three years. All topics are available below. They are ‘understanding yourself’, ‘energy accounting’, ‘exploring your identity’, ‘setting yourself up for success’, ‘understanding others’ and ‘moving forward’.

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 for episodes 3 & 4

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

Meet our presenter and autistic young people for episodes 5 & 6

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

Understanding other people

Understanding others Guide

This is a downloadable guide – all about helping you explore how to navigate relationships with other people and offering some tips for understanding others. It’s written and led by autistic people.

See our guide to Understanding others

Moving forward

Moving forward guide

This is a downloadable guide – all about helping you to explore how to approach transitions, independent living and adult responsibilities to help you in life moving forward.

See our guide to Moving forward

One-page profile

This is a downloadable interactive profile. It is an optional tool that it mentioned in the Moving forward guide.

See our One-page profile

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.