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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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CAMHS: The triple-empathy problem and autism diagnosis
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) are known for failing to support the mental health of Autistic children. Unfortunately this is…
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How the uncertainty in CAMHS processes harms Autistic children and families
Autistic people are somewhat renowned for struggling with sudden change and uncertainty. While not necessarily universal, it is prevalent enough to be…
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I just watched the channel 4 documentary on Autistic inpatients: thing need to change
On Channel 4 in the UK there is currently a documentary from their dispatches series called “Locked Away: Our autism scandal”. This…
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Is there an autism epidemic?
The article addresses the detrimental perception of autism as an “epidemic.” It presents studies suggesting autism’s strong genetic basis, with heritability rates…
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Understanding Autistic people’s relationship with drug use
The post discusses the substantial problem of addiction among individuals with Autism. It highlights the tendency for Autistic people to self-medicate using…
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CAMHS Crisis: An Autistic parent speaks out
Since this campaign to change the way that CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) treats Autistic children and young people started,…
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The shocking state of autism diagnosis in the UK
Autism is under-diagnosed. This fact has been a truth within our online Autistic spaces for as long as I’ve been in them.…
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On being the neurodivergent child of an alcoholic parent
This article is an anonymous guest post I was informally diagnosed with C-PTSD in 2017, aged 41, then formally diagnosed aged 46.…
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AuDHD and the politics of neurodivergent embodiment
When living life as an AuDHD (Autistic and ADHD) person, we often find ourselves falling prey to the propaganda of Western society’s…
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I asked Autistic people about their experience of CAMHS: Here’s what they said
I asked Autistic Twitter/X about their experiences with CAMHS, here’s a handful of their responses.
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Being an Autistic bullying victim led to my schizophrenia
I was bullied into a state where I no longer knew what was real or who I could trust. Teachers and students…
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What is unique about my experience as an AuDHD Schizophrenic person?
Over the years, I have spoken about my experience of psychosis and autism from the perspective of its uniqueness. However, over the…
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