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The Mycelial Mind: NeuroKin Conversations Ep. 4 | Neurodivergent spirituality, Isolation, And Belonging
What does neurodivergent spirituality mean? David Gray-Hammond and Adele Murray explore spirituality, isolation and Autistic belonging.
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Matter and Anti-Matter: Being Multiply Neurodivergent in Addiction and in Recovery
I spent the first eighteen years of my life feeling like a broken neurotypical.The most common thing I heard from teachers and…
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What Does Autism Feel Like?
I am Autistic. I know this, not only because I was diagnosed after extensive assessment, but also because of my feeling of…
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Welcome to NeuroHub Connect: Autistic-Led Autism Support, Community and Training
Autistic-led autism support in one place: a free neurodivergent community, one-to-one peer mentoring, autism training and consultancy for professionals, Autistic Mental Health…
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Autism & How To Solve The NEET Problem
In recent dates the news in the united kingdom has been discussing how 25% of young people are not in education, employment,…
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Understanding Autism: The Ecosystemic Model Of Distress
Building on Luke Beardon’s golden equation of ‘autism + environment = outcome’ this article proposes that distress and mental health problems are…
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Supporting Autistic People: A Six-Point Framework
DGH Neurodivegent Consultancy uses a six point framework to support Autistic people. This article explains the basic principles behind this framework that…
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Lilipadding Through Autistic Burnout: A Practical Guide to Rehabilitation
Autistic burnout is a profound exhaustion stemming from unmet societal expectations. It manifests as brain fog, physical depletion, and loss of coping…
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Living Between Lilipads: A Philosophy For Neurodivergent Thriving (Part 1)
For Autistic and otherwise neurodivergent people, life often feels like an endless demand to leap; from one task to another, from one…
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Lilipadding for Autistic People: Reducing Transitional Trauma for Monotropic Minds
Monotropism, and the subsequent work of Tanya Adkin in conceptualising Monotropic split, has been an incredibly meaningful set of ideas for the…
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Autistic people and the experience of pain
When it comes to Autistic people and the experience of pain, there is a lot to be said. Many of us anecdotally…
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CAMHS: Can they really help your Autistic child?
In previous articles I have spoken extensively about the myriad ways in which Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) fail Autistic…
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Reclaiming Neurofuturism: The Liminal as a space of Queer potential
Further to my response to Edgar (2024a) addressing the litigious nature of neurodivergent embodiment (Gray-Hammond, 2024), is Edgar’s response considering the neuroqueering…
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CAMHS: Coping with parent carer burnout
The campaign against Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services failures for Autistic children highlights the impact on children, but what about parent…
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Teaching your child Autistic pride while CAMHS fail them
“It’s okay for us to admit that being Autistic is a core part of who we are. The problem is that when…
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CAMHS in Crisis: Wait Times Are Harming Autistic Children
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) have significantly long wait times, with over 400,000 children on waiting lists as of May…
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Reclaiming Neurofuturism: Responding to “The Double Empathy Problem is DEEP” by Edgar, 2024
Responding to Edgar (2024), David explores how the double empathy divide has been intentionally weaponised, preventing the connection and collective power of…
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CAMHS: My Autistic Child’s been referred… Now what?
Your child has been referred to CAMHS, but what are you supposed to do now? This article contains advice on interactions and…
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The AuDHD Burnout to Psychosis Cycle: A personal experience
“Psychosis adds an interesting spiciness to this experience. When I start sinking, my brain tells me that someone else is pulling me…
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CAMHS: The Silent Epidemic Stealing Our Autistic Children
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in the UK have been failing Autistic children, leading to tragic outcomes. At least 46…
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Is autism a disorder?
Is autism a disorder? This has been a point of contention for a long time. In this article, David explores this question…
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CAMHS: “Your child is Anxious because they’re Autistic”
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) have repeatedly failed Autistic children, particularly through diagnostic overshadowing. This practice involves attributing symptoms to…
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