Frequently Asked Questions
ND Connect is an intersectional mentorship and peer connections community by-and-for neurodivergent adults. On ND Connect, you can find mentors, friends, and an authentic, supportive community that gets you and wants to help you thrive.
Members have access to our platform designed to help you find meaningful professional and personal connections, ask questions, and share experiences. By joining, you also gain access to our member directory, community space, resources, weekly gatherings, events, open roles and more.
Our members are people who want to network authentically and form genuine, non-transactional, and non-performative connections with peers.
While our platform is mainly designed for current and aspiring neurodivergent professionals, ND Connect is open to all adults who self-identify as neurodivergent or feel like they relate to neurodivergent experiences. This includes people with dyslexia, autism, ADHD, mental health disabilities (e.g., Cluster B personality disorders, PTSD, anxiety, schizophrenia, OCD, psychosis, DID/plurality etc.), fetal alcohol syndrome, Tourettes, dyscalculia, dyspraxia, intellectual disabilities, and acquired neurodivergence (e.g., acquired brain injuries, aphasia, etc.).
Our community is filled with people from various backgrounds including: tech, entrepreneurship, art, design, science, care work, film, writing, legal, healthcare, academia, you name it.
Ultimately, people in our community want to meet cool people, do cool things, and help others along the way. Members are committed to being generous with their support while respecting their capacities đ
Yes! As a virtual clubhouse, ND Connect is open to everyone, with members in over 23 countries. We occasionally host in-person events in locations where our members are concentrated, with more opportunities for place-based connections as we grow.
Members need to:
- Self-identify as neurodivergent or feel they relate to neurodivergent experiences
- Be 18+
- Commit to following our community guidelines
- Be here for the primary purpose of forming genuine connections, asking for help, and giving help where possible.
Click 'Join the Community' to fill out a thoughtful application (it takes about 10-20 minutes). Our team will personally review it and reach out if we have any questions. If everything looks good, weâll send you a unique invite code so you can sign up, complete your profile, and start connecting with other members!
We personally review every application to help keep ND Connect a high-trust, high-quality space - free from bots, spam, and incomplete profiles.
Our goal is to foster an intentional, thoughtfully curated community where you can feel confident showing up authentically and forming meaningful connections.
This process helps makes sure that everyone is here for the right reasons and that profiles are genuine and informative, making it easier to find people you truly connect with.
ND Connect is a membership-based platform for three main reasons:
- Sustaining the space. Your membership helps us cover essential costs like server fees, compensating disabled collaborators, and paying our team a living wage. As a neurodivergent-led team, we want to provide a high-quality experience without burning out. (There have been times weâve self-funded and juggled multiple jobs to create this space - weâd really love to not have to job search again đ )
- Community-funded, community focused. Being community-funded is like an accountability policy which means weâll always have your best interests at heart. Weâre committed to protecting your privacy, staying ad-free, and we will never sell your data. Most social platforms are free because you are the product theyâre selling (this is why so many platforms try to maximize your time/attention on it - they profit from selling your data to advertisers or outside third parties). Your support lets us stay true to our values, having neurodivergent people guide all decisions every step of the way.
- A high-quality community. Weâve found that when people invest in a space, even a little bit, they tend to take better care of it. Your membership helps us cultivate a space where everyone feels valued and connected.
Your support helps us create a supportive space where neurodivergent people can thrive together through genuine connections and community building.
We offer sliding scale memberships for financial accessibility. Right now, you can join monthly for (USD):
- $24+ - pay-it-forward
- $16 - recommended
- $8 - accessible
- $3.38 - more accessible
All memberships are billed quarterly because building meaningful relationships takes time. Our platform is designed to foster long-term connections.
As a team with experiences being low-income, we never want financial barriers to stop you from accessing what you need.
If the most accessibly priced membership feels out of reach, please let us know youâd like a fully-funded sponsored membership. We process these on a rolling basis and are happy to help however we can.
At ND Connect, thereâs no one ârightâ way to show up.
To be accessible, weâre designing ND Connect to respect differing capacities, fluctuating energy levels, and busy schedules. Whether you're engaging as a mentee, peer, or mentor (most people in our community move between roles and do all three), you can connect asynchronously or synchronously, based on your availability and needs.
Instead of a one-size-fits-all program with a rigid curriculum, mentorship and peer connections here are guided by the people in the community. You can go at your own pace and decide when, how, and who you meet with based on what feels right for you and the people you connect with. Itâs all about forming real, sustainable connections that fit into your life - not the other way around.
We also design our events and workshops intentionally, so you can participate in the way that works best for you. Cameras on or off, typing in chat or speaking aloud, stimming, fidgeting⊠itâs all welcome here! And if you canât make something live, no worries - members get access to recordings of all mentorship hours in our resources library so you can catch up anytime without feeling like youâre missing out.
And of course, if youâre ever having a low spoons day, feeling burnout, or just overwhelmed, thereâs never any shame or judgement around rescheduling a meet or taking a step back when you need to. Weâve been there too.