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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Understanding autistic burnout, telling it apart from depression, and finding slow, kind ways back to ourselves.
Getting sober as a neurodivergent person isn’t a straight line. It’s more like a tide chart drawn by someone who feels weather in their bones. Some days the sea is calm. Some days it throws cutlery…
Glass Half Interesting is a blog about sober living, alcohol-free drinks, and the quiet, radical act of choosing what you put in your body. I’m nearly ten years into recovery from drug and alcohol…
In this episode of Autistic Story Time With David I explore what the concept of “mental illness” means to me as a Schizophrenic and recovering addict. The full version of this podcast is available to…
In this episode, David Gray-Hammond discusses more of his experiences with Autistic burnout. He explores the risk of pushing too hard and too fast during the rehabilitation process and how we can get…
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Autistic mental health is often framed through a narrow, deficit-based lens — one that focuses on pathology, risk, and what’s “wrong.” But this view leaves out the richness of autistic lives, the…
Inspired by Betsy Selvam’s talk on Art as a Therapeutic Tool, delivered at Stimpunks Seeds of Cope event 17th May 2025, and the amazing Neuroqueering Your Creative Practice Course I am on with KR…
“Once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.” [And that may even be a…
Rest can become a radical act in a world that often equates our worth with productivity, especially for Autistic or otherwise neurodivergent people navigating the tides of burnout, where even our…
When Autistic people are in burnout, we’re often told to “rest”, to slow down, take time off and pull back from pressure. These suggestions don’t work for me as rest doesn’t feel restful when it’s a…
Kieran Rose (2018) describes autistic burnout as a ‘crash where you keep on crashing’. This resonates deeply. I have experienced cycles of burnout throughout my life due to systemic unmet needs…
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In this episode, I explore my journey through psychosis as an Autistic person and the path to my schizophrenia diagnosis. I discuss being a psychiatric inpatient, and the burnout to psychosis cycle…
In episode 2 of my podcast I tell the story of my journey into drug and alcohol addiction. For greater detail on the specifics of my experience, please consider buying my book Unusual Medicine:…
Neuroqueering in Liminal Spaces “By silencing our bodyminds, they (neurotypical society) have halted the growth of a chaotic self. We are no longer able to move fluidly through our experience,…
In this episode David and friends discuss David's sobriety journey and some of the realities of addiction. This episode contains subsjects that may be difficult for some listeners. Unusual Medicine…
David is joined by Jaesic Wade of Queer Cult to discuss neurodivergence and substance use. This is an area of particular focus for David and promises to be an interesting episode! Jaesic on Facebook…
In this episode David and Kelly (AKA Behind the Mask) talk about their experiences with sobriety as neurodivergent people. Kelly's Facebook page David's Books