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An open archive of neurodivergent voices: writing, talks, podcasts and stories, gathered by the NeuroHub community.
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ADHD and AuDHD in our own words and in the news: attention, energy, work, waiting lists and the lives we build around them.
A small Finnish-led brain-imaging study found that ADHD traits in adults, with and without a diagnosis, track differences in brain activity patterns. It supports the idea of ADHD as variation along a…
A new report from Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare estimates that more than 116,000 children aged 10 to 17 had an ADHD diagnosis in 2025. Officials and clinicians disagree on what the…
In New South Wales, family doctors can now train to diagnose ADHD and prescribe medication, and 300 more GPs are due to start training this month. It shows one way to cut the cost and wait of…
Being late diagnosed has changed my life. That really is the understatement of the year, believe me. It has taught me so much about myself. For the first time, I actually feel like I know myself…
Waiting lists are usually discussed as an inconvenience. New research suggests that for ADHDers, they are a question of risk. A meta-analysis published in JAMA Network Open links ADHD to a 70% higher…
Ticket Theory by Hilary Knutson, shared by Neuro Pride Ireland, offers an Autistic ADHD-friendly way to understand monotropism, spiky profiles, inertia and burnout. Some tasks simply never get a…
Kemi Badenoch has said young people with ADHD should not get disability benefits. Her party’s plan would also stop child Disability Living Allowance (DLA) cash payments for ‘mild’ learning and…
A UK qualitative study asked 260 autistic and ADHD trans and gender diverse adults what contributed to their eating disorder. Many described it as a way of coping with sensory overwhelm, body…
Dr Claire Stubbs is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist specialising in ADHD, trauma, attachment and neurodiversity. Her work integrates neuroscience, Internal Family Systems (IFS), attachment…
For half a century I attended football matches without a clue that I had autism and ADHD. I stood on terraces in all kinds of weather, but in recent years it has become a real struggle. After my…
Content note: this post discusses hunger, fullness, restriction and overeating as forms of regulation, and touches on eating disorders. Please read with care, and skip if you need to. Neurodivergent…
Deleuze and Guattari title one of the plateaus in A Thousand Plateaus “How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Organs?” (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987, p. 149). I have read that title many times, but only…
Just like a bus, you wait ages for one to come along and all of a sudden two make an appearance. I had been seeking a diagnosis to explain the problems I have encountered in my life not for years but…
Just What Does Spider-Man Have to Do with Demand Avoidance? by Stephen Ashfield and Dr Claire Stubbs The new Spider-Man movie sees our hero battling villains aplenty (though not the ones I want to…
Apologies to Lionel Bart for taking the title of his song from ‘Oliver!’ but it fits this article perfectly even though I’m more Scrooge than Fagin. Ever since I was diagnosed with autism and then…
Helen Edgar shares her Monotropic Galaxy, a constellation map of her Autistic ADHD inner life, and invites you to draw your own. A gentle introduction to the full piece on More Realms.
A UK survey of 166 dyslexic adults found strong support for identity-based terms like ‘dyslexic’ and rejection of labels such as ‘learning difficulty’. People who were also Autistic or ADHD were more…
A benefits advice website has gathered evidence of the extra costs Autistic people and people with ADHD, anxiety or depression face, from travel and food to sensory needs, ahead of two government…
Share I was already home. In my own house. Surrounded by familiar things. In a place where I was safe, where I belonged, where there was nowhere else I was supposed to be. And still, somewhere…
Waiting lists are usually discussed as an inconvenience. New research suggests that for ADHDers, they are a question of risk. A meta-analysis published in JAMA Network Open links ADHD to a 70% higher…
Neurodivergent means thinking, processing, learning and responding in ways that differ from the majority. A plain-language guide to what the word means, who it includes and what it is not.
I wasn’t invited to Paris Hilton’s ADHD event. There was no dramatic refusal. No principled rejection of a pink invitation. No publicist desperately trying to reach me while I weighed my values…
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.
I have been working my ass off lately. The kind of morning where you are doing seventeen things at once, holding twelve more in your head, and somehow still feeling like you haven’t done enough. The…