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Trust Isn't a Number
Photo by Jack Guo on Unsplash Erik was the first dyslexic person who let me in. He let me see how he experienced the world. A Navy brat, his learning disability wasn’t caught until he was seventeen —…
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Finding Our People
Why neurodivergent community matters, and how we build spaces where we truly belong.
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In the Interest of Full Transparency
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,”…
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Why Gang Culture Can Be Attractive to Autistic People
Gang involvement among Autistic people is rarely discussed in neurodivergent-affirming spaces, and when it is discussed at all, it tends to be framed through a criminological or risk-management lens…
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THE MAG PRIDE SPECIAL
THE MAG PRIDE SPECIAL Introduction Welcome to THE MAG PRIDE SPECIAL. It's going to be a busy few weeks in Brighton & Hove with so much going on.. Anyone who lives in this city will be used to the…
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Declaring Victory While the Monster Still Lurks
I melted down one month after I was laid off from my job of 15 years. The layoff happened right as we were moving into our new home. We were facing a fresh mortgage, and our income divided in half.…
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Stimpunks Solidarity and Otters
A reflection from Stimpunks Solidarity Sesh on otters, monotropism, and co-regulation, and what watching them together each week teaches us
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Let's talk about labels
“Neurotypical” isn’t the problem. Neither is “neurodivergent.” Both words describe your brain. Neuro-privilege describes the deal you get. Those aren’t the same thing. They aren’t even on the same…
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THE MAG EXTRA
THE MAG EXTRA Introduction Welcome to THE MAG EXTRA, my companion blog to THE MAG which was launched at the end of June. Thank you for the positive response shown to that and it is well worth paying…
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Spotlight on Embedding Neurodiversity into the Curriculum in Helping Professions: The Wholeness Solution with Mamood Ahmad, Psychotherapist and Author
Mamood Ahmad is a tutor, speaker, and author of A New Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy. He founded the #TADF community, which works proactively with training organisations to support the…
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Midnight Musings
Sometimes I see someone talk about Substack feeling more genuine, about people bringing authenticity and publishing it for all to examine. People here are wrestling with big questions, and they are…
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Watching from the Edge
Names of family members have been changed. Elaine called for Craig softly. Someone nearby echoed her call, a little louder. My husband heard a need — Elaine wanted his cousin’s attention — and used…
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An Introduction to THE MAG by Stephen Ashfield
If someone had suggested to me a few months ago that I would be writing this blog, I would have probably looked at them in sheer disbelief. I turned 65 on June 19 but it was only in mid-May of this…
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Neurodiversity Infinity Symbol: History, Time, and Collective Becoming
The neurodiversity infinity symbol has a story worth knowing. Rotate it and it becomes an hourglass holding time, community, and collective becoming.
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Empathy, Becoming, and Belonging: On what it really means to be met across difference
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…
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THE MAG
THE MAG Welcome to THE MAG by Stephen Ashfield July is going to be a very busy month on the Brighton autism/ADHD scene and just wait until August comes along. There are plenty of events taking place…
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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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Stimming, Glimmers & Solidarity: Celebrating Autistic Pride Together
What is Autistic Pride Day? Explore its history, stimming, and glimmers with NeuroHub Community, Stimpunks & Autistic Realms.
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Get Help
Content warning: trauma, assault, medical abuse, chronic pain, death, grief. Names changed. Photo by Maddi Bazzocco on Unsplash Dr. Andrews sent my husband home with a dire warning. “Get help or your…
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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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Your Self-Knowledge Is Not Up for a Vote.
I am a bisexual woman married to a woman. And it’s pride month and I’m going to talk about it. Because if you relate, if you’re struggling with taking up space, with owning the fullness of who you…
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Spotlight on Autistic Pride with Marion McLaughlin, Managing Director of Aurora Autistic Consulting, and founder of Autistic Pride Aberdeen
Marion McLaughlin is the Managing Director of Aurora Autistic Consulting. They have a varied career background including stable hand, road safety officer, primary school teacher, and Autistic led…
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The Neurodivergent Therapy Community Has an Echo Chamber Problem
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…
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The Privilege of Going Back: What It Means to Join Pride, Year After Year
There is a specific kind of aliveness that happens when you turn a corner and the street opens up — the sound before the sight, the drums and the bass finding you in the chest before your eyes have…
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Ordinary Chemistry
We have a tankless water heater in our attic. It produces condensation, and a CPVC pipe carries that condensation out of the house. The pipe had to turn at one point, and there was a brass coupling…