We host regular monthly virtual hangouts designed as low-pressure spaces for autistic and neurodivergent people to connect, unwind, and be in community. These gatherings are conversational, flexible, and shaped by the people who show up, with no agenda and no expectation to speak — you’re welcome to join with your camera on or off, participate actively, or simply listen.
Hosted by our NAP Liaison, Deborah, these hangouts take place online on the 3rd Thursday at 6:30 pm of each month in our Jitsi room. Jitsi requires no account or login and can be accessed easily through a web browser or the Jitsi app.
These gatherings offer a consistent point of connection each month and a welcoming space to spend time with others in community.
Monthly Virtual Hangouts
Deborah - NAP Liaison
We Are Celebrating Our First Year of Autistic Pride with Two Events and You Are Invited!
Upcoming Events
Learn more about these events and other regular meetings and hang outs at our upcoming events webpage by clicking the button below.
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Regress & Rest
A Neurodiverse Community Retreat
Regress & Rest Retreat is Autistic Pride Chattanooga’s 18‑and‑up Neurodiverse lock‑in with flexible drop‑in hours, five community‑pace spaces, games, movies, infodumping, and a safe‑food potluck with pizza. Sliding‑scale admission supports Autistics for Safe Food and our community care and education series, "How to Be Autistic." Held at UUCC; APC is not religiously affiliated. Pajamas encouraged.
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Autistic Pride Day in Chattanooga features four floors of adventures, special guests, interactive experiences, a silent auction, open mic, and community celebration — built by and for autistic people.
Autistic Pride Chattanooga Gooogle Calendar
Event Calendar
Our public Google Calendar includes all of our upcoming gatherings, workshops, virtual hangouts, Meet the Board sessions, and community events. It’s the easiest way to stay up‑to‑date on what’s happening, with real‑time updates whenever new events are added or details shift. You can view it online or add it to your own calendar to keep everything in one place.
Autistic Pride Chattanooga is Turning One, and We Have Two Ways to Celebrate
Join us at Urban Stack for milkshakes (Saturday, September 26th at Noon) at the place where the idea for holding an Autistic Pride Day was born, and from that, Autistic Pride Chattanooga grew into the community we are today. We have accomplished a lot together and changed Chattanooga for the better for everyone. This is a great event for all to attend, especially allies. In lieu of gifts, please donate to Autistics for Safe Food.
Birthday Milkshakes
Neurodiverse Community Retreat
This one is just for us Neurodiverse Adults and you can learn more by scrolling just a little bit more down
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Partner With Us
Autistic Pride Day brings together community organizations, creators, and businesses from across the region. If you would like to host a table, share resources, or participate as a vendor, this is where you can learn more and apply.
Partnership opportunities include:
Step into Your Community
Step Forth: Virtual Volunteer Summit
We’re bringing our community together to step forward, share our strengths, and help shape the work ahead. During the summit we’ll create committees and projects together, based on volunteers’ special interests, skills, and passions.
Inside this group you can:
Introduce yourself
Share your interests and talents
Help shape committees and focus areas
Stay updated on planning and next steps
This space is collaborative, supportive, and community-led. Whether you’re here to organize, create, research, advocate, or help behind the scenes—there’s a place for you.
Step forth. Your strengths belong here.
A First Look at Autistic Pride Day
Something big is coming.
At our March Meet the Board gathering, we’ll be unveiling the full vision for Chattanooga’s first autistic-led Autistic Pride Day.
We’re revealing the location.
We’re revealing the adventures.
We’re revealing the special guests.
We’re revealing how to become a vendors or how to host community tables.
And we’re sharing how four floors of side quests and interactive experiences will come together to amplify, center, and empower autistic voices in a celebration built for us, by us.
This isn’t just an information session.
It’s the first public look at what this day will actually become.
If you want to see how this celebration is taking shape — and be in the room when it’s announced — this is the moment.
Meet the Board - March Gathering
Saturday, March 7th
2–5pm
Downtown Chattanooga Library — First‑Floor Auditorium
This gathering is an open invitation to connect with board members, ask questions, learn more about Autistic Pride Day, and be present for the venue announcement and big reveals. It’s a casual, community‑centered space where people can show up, participate, and help shape what comes next.
Thank you to Our Underwriter
With your support of the first Autistic Pride Day in the Southeast, you are showing how community strengthens community through autistic leadership.
Join Our Market
Our vendor area highlights artists, makers, and small businesses — especially those from autistic, neurodivergent, and disability communities.
Vendors have the opportunity to share and sell their work while connecting directly with the community. This space celebrates creativity, entrepreneurship, and the many ways autistic and neurodivergent people contribute to the cultural and creative life of our region.
Autistic Pride Day is proud to be the first autistic-led pride celebration of its kind in the Southeast, created by autistic leadership for our community. We are looking for vendors who bring unique, thoughtful, and creative work to the event — from art and books to handmade goods, oddities, and curated finds.
Our vendor hall takes place indoors on the 4th floor event space of the library. To respect the library environment, all vending is limited to this designated space, creating a lively and welcoming market atmosphere throughout the day.
This space also hosts one of the event’s main attractions — the Open Mic Info Dump hosted by Barking Legs Theatre— which brings steady foot traffic and an engaged audience into the vendor hall. The market becomes part of the main-event energy of Autistic Pride Day.
Booth spaces include a table and chairs and are available in multiple sizes, allowing vendors to select one or more spaces and curate the layout that works best for them.
Vendor participation helps make Autistic Pride Day possible. Vendor fees directly support the creation of this community celebration.
If you create art, crafts, books, handmade goods, or other products you would like to share, we invite you to join us.