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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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Autism: What CAMHS Really Say
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) fails autistic kids. Their focus on deficits, not strengths, and support of harmful therapies shows…
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The Internet on Autism Awareness Month and acceptance
The debate over April revolves around whether it should be “Autism Awareness Month” or “Autism Acceptance Month”. Some charities focus on fundraising,…
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It’s World Autism Day: CAMHS are still failing our children
World Autism Day is an opportunity for CAMHS to support the autistic community, but their efforts seem performative. Their lack of post-diagnostic…
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Destinations and maps: A reimagining of neurofuturism
This short essay explores neurofuturism within the context of the neurodiversity movement. It offers a definition for what neurofuturism means in this…
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Late-diagnosis of autism is creating a mental health crisis
Late-diagnosis of autism may be driving a mental health crisis that could cost lives. Is it possible to mitigate this effect?
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CAMHS Fails Autistic Children, and the NHS ignores it
Every day, it seems, brings new heartbreaking stories of autistic children failed by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). It’s no…
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Autistic Burnout: When the Autistic brain overloads
Think you understand autistic burnout? It might be more complex than you think. Could YOU be experiencing burnout without even realizing it?…
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CAMHS: Burnout, School Avoidance, and gaslighting
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) have been a focus of mine for quite some time now. I have talked about…
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Dynamic Support Register: CAMHS cop out or actually helpful?
The Dynamic Support Register (DSR) aims to reduce inpatient admissions for Autistic and Learning Disabled individuals through risk identification and coordinated support.…
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CAMHS are responsible for suicidal Autistic adults
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) focus on improving the mental health of children and young people but often fail to…
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Autistic Parenting: Parenting through burnout
Adulting is hard enough, parenting is hard enough. Together they come with a number of considerations for how we can be effective…
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Restrictive practice and autism in the inpatient setting
TW: Restraint, Seclusion, Death Restrictive practice, meant to reduce immediate harm, has evolved into a behavior management tool, commonly seen in schools…
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