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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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Is it okay not to be okay?
In recent years there has been a significant increase in the acceptance and removal of stigma surrounding mental health conditions. Let me…
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Diagnosis and the solipsistic conundrum
Solipsism is the idea that only the self can be known. It is impossible to know the world through the eyes of…
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Fighting the void: What is autistic burnout?
In the online autistic community, it is not uncommon to hear about something called “burnout”. This phenomenon is, sadly, quite common, and…
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“I am no longer that person”: An autistic addicts journey to self-forgiveness
Many people praise me for my kindness, and ability to engage in open and honest communication in the name of helping people.…
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Autism and disability: Reframing our view
Recently i have seen a lot of articles and posts on social media distancing the autistic neurotype from the word disability. For…
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What is MMS and why has it been in the news?
If you’ve been on social media recently you may have noticed stories appearing about people feeding their children bleach in a misguided…
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Professional language surrounding autism
I have spent a lot of time reading about the link between autism and addiction (some may call it a special interest…
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Antivaxxers and Ableism
Back in 1998, a now disgraced former doctor named Andrew Wakefield published a paper called “Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental…
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Recovery services as an autistic adult
In my previous article i discussed the frustration of being autistic in a recovery service that was not designed for people like…
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Standing on the corner: Where autism and addiction meet
As an autistic individual, i have faced many challenges over the years, but one of the greatest challenges i have faced was…
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