HELPING NEURODIVERSE PEOPLE THRIVE BY CREATING A WORLD WHERE WE CAN, THINK, MOVE, AND FEEL, WITHOUT FEAR OF JUDGMENT, TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL.  

Xabilities is a platform made by neurodiverse people for neurodiverse people, we host professional and community development, to better support the movement of inclusion and diversity for those who are or wanting to be a part of neurodiversity.  Neurodiversity meaning; those who think or feel in a diverse way to the average person eg. diagnosis like Autism, ADHD, Bipolar are part of this neurodiverse community. ¼ of New Zealanders are disabled, 80% of those people have invisible disables.  Xabilities is Aotearoa’s first Neurodiversity center, we hope with education and implementing the voices of those living with neurodiversity that we can make catalytic change for those currently faced with being outcasted for thinking, feeling and moving invisibility different. This acceptance and difference is why the smallest action from Xabilities makes the largest difference.

Xabilities is coordinated and Founded by Tamara Grant and the information and operation is support by the Xabilities committee, a group of neurodiverse volunteers being to learn about how it is within a working environment, well sharing their voice to amplify change for others. There is currently a gap in the world with lack of accessibility for those with invisible differences/diversity, weather it is gender equality, love rights, cultural respect or accessibility for disability.

 The struggle is trying to represent those with “invisible disability” as a diverse and fluid range of people walking on a large spectrum range, rather than the current view point of, if you look normal you must act accordingly. This view point has been a large contribution to some of the negative impacts for our community including larger suicide rates, high drug use , increased crime and gang numbers and extensive mental health rates, as it is 3 times more luckily for an autistic person to commit suicide than the average person. These issues and environmental impacts are some of the common stories behind our Founder of Xabilities , Ms Tamara Grant  who had first hand experience of trying to gain accessibility for her own basic needs of education, employment and to have opportunity for independence and this is a battle Xabilities has accepted to help change, and we plan to do this in our neurodiverse way, as it is something that hasn’t yet been done in Aotearoa, and is already showing huge impact. 

These are all rights given to typical humans, and yet, as a diverse person on the spectrum, gaining these rights, for a lot of us, has felt like a constant uphill battle. Our team wishes to make change to allow people of the spectrum to be able to gain and find support, easier without constant push back. We wish to support people to thrive in all aspects of their life and to learn how live happily and freely as their authentic selves, without fear or worry.