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Spoon Theory and Autism: Energy, Burnout and Monotropism
What spoon theory means for Autistic people: how everyday tasks use up limited energy, why spoons run out faster, and how monotropism and burnout fit in.
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Burnout and Coming Back
Understanding autistic burnout, telling it apart from depression, and finding slow, kind ways back to ourselves.
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Autistic Burnout vs Depression: How to Tell the Difference
Autistic burnout and depression can look the same from the outside but need different support. The differences, where they overlap, and what helps each.
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Predicting Autistic Burnout
This event is completely free (or you can donate). You don’t need a ticket fee, a membership or a subscription. Register on Humanitix and we’ll send you everything you need to join. What if you could…
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Lilipadding And Monotropic Split
In this episode of Autistic Storytime With David, we explore two interconnected concepts developed by fellow advocate and researcher Tanya Adkin: monotropic split, the cognitive injury that occurs…
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When the Ecology Fractures: Monotropism and Autistic Burnout (Part 2)
Autistic burnout exploring monotropism, sensory stress, masking and relational environments. Learn why burnout happens and how support can help.
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Autistic Burnout Recovery as Ecological Re-assembly (Part 3)
Explore Autistic burnout recovery through ecological re-assembly. Learn how rest, environment, sensory safety, and identity support sustainable healing and renewal.
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The Extended Mind: Symphrenia, Rhizomes and Making-With
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…
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Symphrenia
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…
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Free Resources for Autistic Adults: The Thriving Autistic Discovery Programme
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.
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Mapping Monotropism in Education
Mapping Monotropism in Education is new: Helen Edgar on what the map means at school. It comes from the Yellow Ladybugs panel she gave with Dr Wenn Lawson in June 2025, and it is for teachers,…
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Betwixt Wall & Window: Neuroqueering from the Liminal & Hiraki Sawa’s art
Tired, fragmented and looping, I found my experience of Autistic burnout in a ghostly figure from Hiraki Sawa's silent video Souvenir IV. This piece follows her through hauntology, plurality and the…
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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 professionals was that I was incredibly intelligent, but failing to…
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What Is Autism? The Myths, And What Actually Explains Us
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.…
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How Recovery Changed My Perception Of Life
I frequently return to Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell as a kind of guide on my life. In parituclar, I am drawn to a section of the text entitled The Revelation of Sonmi-451. It reads as follows: To be…
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Flowing In The Afterglow
Autistic burnout, monotropism, meerkat mode, AuDHD, neurodivergent reflection, liminal states, executive dysfunction, flow state
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How Community Gave Me The Strength To Find Recovery
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…
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An Ecology Of Experience For Autistic People
In this episode of Autistic Identity With NeuroHub, David Gray-Hammond explores the Ecosystemic Model of Distress and Wellbeing; a framework for understanding neurodivergent experience not as a…
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Autistic Identity and Performative Allyship in April
Explore how performative allyship during Autism Awareness Month impacts Autistic identity, burnout, and belonging. A neurodivergent-informed perspective on moving beyond awareness to real connection…
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Autistic People Failed Between Services
There is a place many Autistic people end up that doesn’t exist on any official map. It’s not a clinic, or a service. It’s not even acknowledged as a system failure. Yet, it is one of the most…
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Neuroqueering Relational Ecologies: Autistic Weathering and the Body without Organs
A posthuman exploration of Autistic embodiment, neuroqueering, monotropic attention and ethodiversity. Rethinking burnout, sensory climates and relational ecologies.
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Expanding the Mycelial Network of Care: Autistic Community, Safety, and Rhizomatic Futures
The article explores the Autistic community as a living ecology, utilising the concepts of rhizomes and mycelium to illustrate support systems that facilitate belonging and recovery from burnout. It…
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Autistic Burnout and Liminal Sleep Threshold: Hypnopompic and Hypnagogic Experiences
Explore the possible link between Autistic burnout and liminal sleep states such as hypnopompic and hypnagogic experiences through a neuroqueer lens.
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Autistic Identity As Becoming: The Fluidity Of Autism
This episode explores Autistic identity not as a fixed label, but as something living, responsive, and shaped over time. Rather than treating “realising you’re Autistic” as the end of a journey, this…
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Nobody Warned Me That Sobriety Would Still Hurt
Getting sober is often sold as a before-and-after photo. Before: chaos, pain, mess, regret. After: clarity, joy, healing, gratitude, sunrise yoga. That story is comforting but woefully incomplete.…