The Library of Neurodivergent Alexandria
An open archive of neurodivergent voices: writing, talks, podcasts and stories, gathered by the NeuroHub community.
A hall of the Library
On the double empathy problem, epistemic injustice and the long work of being taken at our word about our own minds and bodies.
"Autistic people lack empathy." If you're Autistic, you've probably heard it more times than you can count. In reality, many of us experience empathy so intensely it's almost disabling. What's…
Content note: this essay discusses psychosis, tactile hallucinations, physical illness, health anxiety, medical dismissal and premature death. It does not describe self-harm or crisis in detail. In…
Content note: this post discusses psychosis, hallucinations, delusions, psychiatric labelling and coercive psychiatric practice. I experience hallucinations, I experience what psychiatry would call…
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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.
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…
In an essay on the NeuroHub Connect blog, David Gray-Hammond asks whether he can feel Autistic at all, and concludes that being Autistic feels like being himself. (AI-written · AI fact-checked.)
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Nobody arrives at an Autistic identity alone. David Gray-Hammond describes coming to his own identity through the online Autistic community and the neurodiversity movement, and argues that identity…
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…
Octavia Butler's hyperempathy, which Sami Schalk reads as a disability with no real-world equivalent, and the Autistic people who have been describing it under the same name for years.
What is autism? Not a list of deficits. In this video I explain what autism actually is, why the best-known theories about Autistic people are wrong, and which ideas genuinely explain Autistic life.…
The world of academia and knowledge-production is renowned for it’s disinterest in lived experience. While it is true that anecdotes are almost impossible to generalise in the statistical sense, the…
The world of academia and knowledge-production is renowned for it’s disinterest in lived experience. While it is true that anecdotes are almost impossible to generalise in the statistical sense, the…
If I were to include every resource I signpost to in my work as a counsellor it would be a very extensive list. Nothing works for everyone, even if the topic covered feels highly relevant. But the…
This is the first image I’ve used AI to create. Look what you made me do, Substack. Once upon a time, a caveman figured out how to cook meat over fire. Another caveman was furious. “It’s better raw,”…
Diagnosis has a terrible history. That is not a sentence therapists say often enough. We like to imagine the history of mental health as a steady march toward truth: each generation becoming more…
Helen Edgar – Autistic Realms / More Realms June 2026 “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” — Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person (1961) “Becoming is not…
I did not choose addiction, I chose survival in the only ways available to me at the time, and that distinction matters in ways I am still finding language for. It is not a deflection of…
One of the things I love most about the neurodivergent community is that we challenged expertise. For decades, autistic people were studied but not listened to. ADHDers were talked about but rarely…
Exploring relational quantum mechanics, the Double Empathy Problem, ethodiversity and what it means to be Autistic in a world made of relations, not objects.
Most people think communication problems are about personality. One person is “too sensitive.” Another is “too blunt.” One “expects mind reading.” The other “doesn’t pay attention.” Breaking The…
: No space is neutral. Exploring minority stress, the Double Empathy Problem, and what it really takes to build safer, neuroqueer spaces together.
Anne Borden King is an autistic woman who co-founded Autistics for Autistics (A4A), the Canadian self-advocacy & education group. With her leadership, A4A helped open public funding for AAC, speech…