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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 Community: 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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Two identities: The problem common to both autism and asexuality
Both autism and asexuality are identities that are often misunderstood by the general public. Myths abound about both of them, some more…
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Parallels: My autistic identity and my asexual identity
I only recently publicly admitted to being asexual. It was a great weight off of my shoulders, although I don’t believe that…
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A thing of beauty: Living authentically autistic
For many years I was at odds with my autistic self. I blamed all of my struggles on being autistic, and truth…
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The impact of no healthy autistic asexual representation
I recently realised that I am on the asexual spectrum. More specifically I am greysexual. This means that I rarely feel sexual…
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Simple acts of Radical Kindness: Maintaining my own wellbeing
As those who have followed my writing will know, I have a number of complex mental health issues as well as being…
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My hope for the autistic future
The autistic community and the neurodiversity movement at large has been active online for what has easily been a decade at this…
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[GUEST POST] On I walk: An autistic story of exercise addiction
Written by Ginny Grant It’s COVID isolation mark one. We’re allowed out for exercise each day but my brain – needing something…
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UK: We owe our NHS a debt of gratitude that I fear we can never repay
I’m taking a brief break from the regular autism, addiction, and mental health topics to write about something that I think is…
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Keep choosing recovery: the things that motivate me to stay sober as an autistic addict
Recovery from addiction is complicated. It challenges those of us experiencing it every day. Even now, approaching five years of sobriety, I…
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The cost of autistic masking
Many of us, as Autistics, are well versed in masking. For so many of us, it is an involuntary reflex that happens…
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Surviving and recovering from the holidays and avoiding autistic burnout
Out of the last 48 hours, I have just spent 22 of those hours preparing and cooking Christmas dinner to be delivered…
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Men, it’s okay to cry: my autistic perspective
Tonight I watched “A street cat named Bob”. The film is adapted from a book, which is the true story of a…
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