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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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We need to talk about cigarettes, nicotine, and being autistic
A more up to date take on this can be found here. Nicotine addiction is rarely talked about when discussing addiction, but…
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An open letter to autistic addicts
My fellow autistic addicts, As we approach the end of a historically difficult year, I hope that you can look back and…
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A reflection on the distance I have travelled as an autistic addict
I can’t really remember the exact date upon which the shit hit the fan for me. I know it was towards the…
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Growing up atypical and learning to accept myself
My mother used to encourage me to be myself, to be proud of myself. In many ways I was privileged for having…
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I am autistic, I am an addict, I am mentally ill
As self-advocates, we are often met with suggestions of how we should discuss ourselves. It’s deeply frustrating because it suggests that we…
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Limits of the traditional twelve-step program for autistic folk
Anyone who is even vaguely familiar with the addiction recovery community will likely have come across the twelve-step program in one form…
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On being an autistic advocate and the difficulty finding support
I would like to start by thanking my good friend for bringing this issue to my attention. I would not have thought…
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OPINION: Sia’s “Music” film represents the ableism inherent in todays world
By now I’m sure some of you will have come across discussion surrounding a debut feature film by Sia, if you haven’t,…
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Finding sobriety: The seemingly insurmountable challenge
Many people ask me how I found sobriety, what changed in me to trigger that growth. I honestly think that might be…
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2020: Reflecting on the year from my autistic perspective
Perhaps I am a little early on this, after all, we still have around 6 weeks left of this year, but it…
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OPINION: Stop referring to sober addicts as “clean”
Growing up alongside an addict I had heard the phrase “clean and sober” thrown about by many people (interestingly, not my family).…
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Autism and the future of diagnostic criteria
Diagnosis is a privilege, it’s a fact known by many in the autistic community. Beyond this, there are other issues with diagnostic…
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