Support Group Finder for Autistic and ADHD Adults
National organisations and directories where an autistic or ADHD adult can find a group, each checked for whether it serves adults and whether it costs money.
Searching for an autism or ADHD support group near you mostly returns your own state's chapter, a Psychology Today page for whichever city Google guessed, and a lot of organisations that turn out to be for parents of autistic children.
These are the national starting points, filtered by the two things that actually waste your time: whether it serves adults, and whether it costs money.
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Showing 8 of 8 national starting points.
CHADD — chapter locator
National ADHD organisation with local chapters listed by state. Has a separate adult track rather than only parent and caregiver groups.
Before you go: Chapters are run locally, so what each one actually offers varies a lot. Check the individual chapter page before turning up.
Psychology Today — group directory
Searchable by location and by concern, including ADHD and autism. The largest general directory of groups in the US.
Before you go: Most listings are clinician-run therapy groups, which usually cost money and may bill insurance. Free to search, not free to attend.
ASAN — affiliate groups
Autistic Self Advocacy Network. Affiliate groups run by and for autistic self-advocates, listed by state and region.
Before you go: These are advocacy groups rather than support or social groups. Good if you want to do something with other people; less so if you want a place to talk about a hard week.
Meetup
General events platform. Searching for autistic or neurodivergent adult groups in your city often surfaces social meetups that no directory lists.
Before you go: Nothing is vetted, and a group with a recent event page may still have stopped meeting. Check the last event date before travelling.
GRASP
Autistic and neurodivergent-led nonprofit. Describes itself as "an Autistic and Neurodivergent led 501(c)3 non-profit improving and enriching the lives of our Autistic and Neurodivergent community."
Before you go: Coaching and assessment services are fee-based. Confirm the cost of a specific group before signing up.
Autism Society — local affiliates
Around 70 local affiliates across 34 states and DC, offering information, referral, and support.
Before you go: 🔴 Not adult-specific. Affiliates serve the whole lifespan, and many focus on parents and children. Check whether a given affiliate runs anything for adults before contacting it.
ADDA
Adult-only ADHD organisation running virtual peer groups organised by theme — newly diagnosed, career, couples, LGBTQ, and others.
Before you go: 🔴 The groups require paid membership. Its own page states "Support Groups and Workshops are open only to ADDA Members." It is often recommended as a free adult resource; it is not.
Wrong Planet
A long-running online forum for autistic and ADHD people. Useful when there is nothing near you, or when leaving the house is not going to happen this week.
Before you go: Describes itself as being for "individuals (and parents / professionals of those)" — so threads mix autistic adults with parents and clinicians.
Every link here was opened and checked on 2026-08-20. These are national organisations, directories, and platforms — deliberately not a list of individual local groups, because those close, move, and change their meeting times faster than any page can track. Nothing here is vetted or endorsed by us, and we cannot tell you whether a particular group is currently active or a good fit.
Why this is a list of directories, not a list of groups
There is no national directory of local groups for autistic and ADHD adults. If you search, what you get is whichever state or city chapter happens to rank — North Carolina, San Diego, Baltimore, New York, Orange County. Each is real, and each covers one place.
We are not going to fix that by inventing a national list of local groups. Individual groups close, change their meeting night, move to a different room, or quietly stop without updating anything. A directory that lists a group which stopped meeting in 2024 is worse than no directory, because someone will travel to it.
So this lists the entry points — the organisations and platforms that maintain their own local listings, and are therefore in a position to keep them current. From there you search your own area.
Search results for adult autism support groups are dominated by regional chapters, each covering a single state or city.
The two filters that matter
Does it serve adults? This is the big one. A large share of autism organisations are built around parents and children. Their language, their programmes, and their events are for families, and an autistic adult who contacts them often finds there is nothing for them. We have marked each entry as adult-focused or mixed, and where an organisation is genuinely lifespan-wide rather than adult-specific, we say so plainly.
Does it cost money? Also not obvious from the outside. ADDA, for example, is frequently recommended as the adult ADHD organisation — which it is — but its support groups require paid membership. Its own page states that support groups and workshops are open only to members. That is worth knowing before you spend an evening on it.
What we did not include
We left out one organisation that is probably relevant, AANE, because its site returns a bot-protection challenge to us and we could not open the page to check what it currently offers. We would rather leave a gap than describe a page we have not read.
We also left out individual local chapters, city groups, and Facebook groups — not because they are bad, but because we cannot keep them accurate.
If nothing here works
Several things on this list are online rather than in-person, which is sometimes the more realistic option. A forum you can read at 2am with no obligation to speak is a different kind of thing from a weekly meeting, and for some weeks it is the only kind that is going to happen.
If you find something good that is missing here, we would like to hear about it, particularly if it is adult-focused and national. We will check it before adding it.