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
Small sparks, big wonder and autistic joy: the moments that light us up and how to notice more of them.
Glimmers can be thought of as the opposite of triggers. Instead of heralding unpleasant thoughts, feelings, and traumatic memories, they bring joy. Deb Dana first used the term to describe…
What is Autistic Pride Day? Explore its history, stimming, and glimmers with NeuroHub Community, Stimpunks & Autistic Realms.
Exploring Bagpuss through a neurodivergent lens: monotropism, slow attention, and the quiet beauty of restoring meaning to lost and overlooked things.
If Helen De Cruz designed a learning space, what would it look like? Helen Edgar follows wonder and awe through monotropism, glimmers, flow and Cavendish Space.
Zine No. 111 — Star Stuff On a beginning with no location, an observable universe that does have a centre, and the difference between no preferred place and no preferred frame.
My physical body is your physical body, and just as the sun and stars are present in you, they are also present in me. […] we are all made of stars. Vietnamese Buddhist monk: Thich Nhat Hanh I find…
6 November 2026 — Glimmer Wire The week three papers were read in full and held anyway — because reading them is what showed the story on top was not the paper’s.
A new podcast from David Gray-Hammond and Helen Edgar sets out a ten-episode first season on distress, joy, burnout and the connected mind, looked at through an ecological lens. (AI-written · AI…
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30 October 2026 — Glimmer Wire The week the archive that had carried every full text here for five editions began asking its callers to prove they were not robots.
A glowing spherical network of interconnected white lines and luminous nodes floats against a vibrant cosmic nebula of blue, teal, green, red, orange, and golden-yellow clouds. The intricate…
23 October 2026 — Glimmer Wire The week this page withdrew one of its own measurements, because the number had been moving with the method rather than with the thing.
16 October 2026 — Glimmer Wire Nine papers read end to end, the most in eight editions — and a headline that puts a word in quotation marks which nobody on the page is ever quoted as saying.
9 October 2026 — Glimmer Wire Five papers read end to end, and every one of them from the same archive — because four of their publishers could not be reached at all.
2 October 2026 — Glimmer Wire Six papers read end to end — and the first story held because the only summary of it available was written by a machine.
25 September 2026 — Glimmer Wire Five papers read end to end — and six holds whose headlines each turn on a word the paper does not use.
18 September 2026 — Glimmer Wire The week four papers opened end to end — and the longest lag the axis has recorded, 330 days.
Helen Edgar on lost things, wonder, and the cabinets we keep for one another — Emily’s shop, the herbarium type specimen, Ole Worm’s unicorn horn, and attention that refuses to be filed.
Field Guide No. 22 — Field Guides eighteen borrowed and invented words for Autistic joy, and what is actually holding each one up
31 August 2026 — Glimmers It’s happening. It’s really happening. It’s finally happening.
31 August 2026 — Glimmers The pair that comes back clean is the one to worry about.
An Essay — Foundations Skepticism and wonder, learned at the same time and called uneasy neighbours.
11 September 2026 — Glimmer Wire The week the network answered — three papers read end to end, and the longest lag the axis has measured.
Shakespeare coined Miranda's name from the Latin for wonder at. A reading of The Tempest and Waterhouse's 1916 canvas: a boy actor, an editor who moved her hardest speech into her father's mouth, and…