The Library of Neurodivergent Alexandria
An open archive of neurodivergent voices: writing, talks, podcasts and stories, gathered by the NeuroHub community.
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Posts from neurodivergent writers and the blogs the Library follows.
We write this from lived experience. As neurodivergent people with our own experiences of attention, imagery and unusual sensory life, we come to these ideas from the inside as well as from the…
Week 41 runs Sunday 2026-10-04 through Saturday 2026-10-10. The day headings below carry their dates. The companion piece is Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 41 2026: From the Kitchen to the Pub,…
16 October 2026 — Glimmer Wire Nine papers read end to end, the most in eight editions — and a headline that puts a word in quotation marks which nobody on the page is ever quoted as saying.
Could you imagine that that might be you too? And this story is for you. — Then & Now, How to Make a Fascist I think fascism comes in a very large part from a fear of chaos. It is in some way, then,…
Yesterday’s article made one move; from asking what is wrong with this person? to asking what is this distress responding to? Today is about what the ecosystem is actually made of, and why distress…
I couldn’t go to a gas station without somebody asking me about it or trying to figure out how they could get their own. Jake Simpson, a kei truck importer in Pennsylvania, in Japan’s ‘Kei’ trucks…
For more than a century, the dominant Western approach to mental health has rested on a single assumption; that distress lives inside the person. If someone is struggling, something must be wrong…
This week Stimpunks.World got somewhere to eat, drink, and sit down. Hey, Good Cookin’ is a community kitchen where nobody is turned away. Pekoe and Purrs is a cat café where every cat is waiting for…
An Autistic ADHD, symphrenic reading of Yeats’s “The Second Coming”: why the centre cannot hold, and how community without a centre can hold us instead.
If Helen De Cruz designed a learning space, what would it look like? Helen Edgar follows wonder and awe through monotropism, glimmers, flow and Cavendish Space.
Content note: this post discusses psychosis, psychiatric diagnosis, burnout and dehumanisation. It does not describe self-harm or crisis in detail. Support links are at the end. In Brief Symphrenia…
I think it knows and doesn’t itself want to cope, and that is the society’s problem, not mine. — Maya Angelou, Bill Moyers Journal, 1973 When I was young, I knew a lot. Now I don’t know nothing,…
Week 40 runs Sunday 2026-09-27 through Saturday 2026-10-03. The day headings below carry their dates. The companion piece is Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 40 2026: From the Proposal to the Vote,…
9 October 2026 — Glimmer Wire Five papers read end to end, and every one of them from the same archive — because four of their publishers could not be reached at all.
Content note: this post discusses psychosis, hallucinations, delusions, psychiatric labelling and coercive psychiatric practice. I experience hallucinations, I experience what psychiatry would call…
Helen and I put a lot of work into the things we write and create, it costs a lot of time and energy in order to be able to make these things happen, and that means that we need to earn income from…
What does neurodivergent spirituality mean? In this episode of The Mycelial Mind: NeuroKin Conversations, hosts David Gray-Hammond and Adele Murray explore neurodivergent spirituality, isolation and…
This week our Board voted, and our governance pages stopped describing what it was about to decide. Twelve documents are adopted, our unpaid Co-Creative Directors are indemnified, and Mila Krambo…
A theme I return to again and again is the importance of Autistic community and connecting with our neurokin. In the UK and elsewhere, accessing formal support often requires meeting opaque…
Content note: this essay discusses psychosis, psychiatric diagnosis, burnout, and the institutional treatment of Mad people. It does not describe self-harm or crisis in detail. Support links are at…
Masking is what we do to survive. Internalised ableism is what we are taught to believe. Imposter syndrome asks whether we belong. Helen Edgar gently untangles all three.
Free, self-paced videos, guides and tools for recently identified Autistic adults, from the Thriving Autistic Discovery Programme. What it is, who it is for, what it covers, and how to explore it.
There are two observable questions made available when a person is struggling. The first gets asked constantly “What is wrong with this person?” It positions the problem inside a bodymind and…
Week 39 runs Sunday 2026-09-20 through Saturday 2026-09-26. The day headings below carry their dates. The companion piece is Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 39 2026: From the Street to the World,…