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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Personal essays on access, accommodations and neuroinclusion, and on the everyday systems that decide whether we get to fully exist.
Week 39 runs Sunday 2026-09-20 through Saturday 2026-09-26. The day headings below carry their dates. The companion piece is Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 39 2026: From the Street to the World,…
Tuesday morning, I asked my husband not to infodump. Since we retired, we spend a lot of time together. He loves to fill that time regaling me with tales of Warhammer 40k lore (for the Imperium),…
Why shouldn't all Autistic people have access to a positive sense of identity? #AutisticIdentity #AutisticEmpsthy #AutisticCulture #ActuallyAutistic #AutismDiagnosis
Why shouldn't all Autistic people have access to a positive sense of identity? #AutisticIdentity #AutisticEmpsthy #AutisticCulture #ActuallyAutistic #AutismDiagnosis
This week the loud site got a new name and a lot more street. Stimpunks.Love moved house to stimpunks.world and became Stimpunks.World: a campground past the treeline, an Outskirts past the last…
My husband got his hearing aids on Tuesday. The audiologist explained there will be an adjustment period. His brain will need to relearn how to process sound it hasn't had access to in years, and…
Every sheet that has somewhere to write now has a companion prompt — twelve of sixteen, up from ten. The four without one argue a position with no decision-maker at the other end. Sensory Access at…
Every page now has a card. Share a Why Sheet into Discord, Bluesky or Slack and the link arrives with the sheet's title and the moment you reach for it, set in the site's own type on white — a…
*A large number of neurodivergent folks are living with dynamic disabilities - diagnosed or not so while this does not speak to the overlap, it truly is about what so many neurocomplex folks are…
A Creed — Foundations Inclusion safety is not a reward for the worthy. It is the baseline we owe one another simply for being here.
Field Guide No. 21 — Field Guides a support nobody named is a support nobody defends
Every sheet on queering.earth in accession order, with what a sheet is, what a reading, an essay and a wall each mean, and what the numbers do and do not say.
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The changelog for Queering Earth: every sheet as it was mounted, every plate that came off again, and every label we corrected — including the attributions we got wrong and exactly how they were…
Before the betrayal | Photo by Amberhawk Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published My cat forgot he's a kitten. He forgot he's one of many in a family of love. He says…
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 —…
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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“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This morning I was reading an extraordinary piece by Germane Marvel, and a word found me. Gleaning. Short Sand Beach | The Ubuntu Journey Germane defines gleaning as accumulation — the way power…