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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How autistic and AuDHD attention gathers, flows and tunnels, and how the world could make room for it.
Explore how monotropism shapes Autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD attention. Dispelling myths, uncovering research and exploring why neuroaffirming support matters for our wellbeing.
Learn how monotropism differs from polytropism, plus research showing ADHDers and AuDHDers score higher on the Monotropism Questionnaire.
To live within the Autistic fold is to recognise that we are not separate from the world, but continuous with it, each of us a unique curvature in the greater flow of being.
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,…
Birds cross oceans by using their inner compass. What if we could do the same? A reflection on migration, monotropism, and self-trust.
Many approaches claim to be “interest-led,” but true neuroaffirming practice goes deeper. Being monotropism-informed means honouring Autistic attention, autonomy, and sensory safety; not using…
We write this from lived experience. As neurodivergent people with our own experiences of attention, imagery and unusual sensory life, we come to these ideas from the inside as well as from the…
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.
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.
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,…
Week 38 runs Sunday 2026-09-13 through Saturday 2026-09-19. The day headings below carry their dates. Best Accomplishments Helen Edgar stopped being a contributor to this work and became a peer in…
Draw a map is new, and version one has not gone anywhere. They ask different questions. The marking tool asks where you are on Helen's map; the new one hands over blank ground and a tray of shapes…
The map's author read the forty passages Stimpunks wrote onto her map, and sent notes on eighteen of them. Those notes are now the pages. This is the part of the process the site was built around:…
monotropicmap.org exists. The Map of Monotropic Experiences has its own home, built on Helen Edgar's go-ahead with joint Stimpunks and Autistic Realms attribution settled first. What is here Both…
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.
Limerence read as monotropic attention rather than as a disorder — Glass, Beethoven, Huxley and García Márquez held against the line in Browning where a love poem stops climbing and comes down to the…
Exploring Bagpuss through a neurodivergent lens: monotropism, slow attention, and the quiet beauty of restoring meaning to lost and overlooked things.
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.
Why this cabinet has a sibling built on science: the fox and the hedgehog from Archilochus to Berlin to Gould, two public-domain animal poems that end in the same place, and the spiky profile the…
Monotropa uniflora, the ghost pipe: a plant with no chlorophyll that feeds off fungi, the flower Emily Dickinson called the preferred flower of life, and the Greek root it shares with monotropism.
Violet, pansy, green carnation, and lavender were worn as code. Each was read by the people it was meant to escape and turned into the word that named you, and each was picked up again afterwards.…
Zine No. 94 — Young Readers There are patterns on flowers that your eyes have no part for, and they are really there — read-aloud science for four to eight, with every source kept on the page where…
Zine No. 84 — How We Got Here Nine links from Theia to Chicxulub, with the state of the land drawn at each one — and the finding that only three of them were moments.
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.…