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Why Difference Comes First
From cosmic background radiation to Deleuze's smooth space to Autistic regulation — why difference, not sameness, is where everything begins.
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Neuroqueer Becomings
Neuroqueer thinking, art and refusal, from rhizomes and Rothko to weird pride and the invention of normal.
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Spotlight on Neurodivergent Theatre with Autistic Polish-British Theatre-Maker and Linguist Maks Marzec
Do you find joy in patterns? Do you notice details, echoes or tiny changes other people miss? Have you spent years achieving, adapting and looking “fine” from the outside? Then this might have been…
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Intersecting identities: The Double Rainbow | David w/ Ausome Charlie (Charlie Hart) & Azi
Two identities. One conversation. Infinite connection. What happens when being neurodivergent and being LGBTQ+ collide? Spoiler: it's more common than you think; and way more interesting than most…
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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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My Monotropic Galaxy: A Constellation of My Autistic Self
Helen Edgar explores monotropism, awe, and Autistic identity through a personal constellation map — weaving quantum physics, Deleuze, and star stuff.
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No Space Is Neutral: Safe Spaces, Imagined Neutrality, and the Work of Belonging
: No space is neutral. Exploring minority stress, the Double Empathy Problem, and what it really takes to build safer, neuroqueer spaces together.
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Mycelium & Rhizome: Ecological Metaphors for Autistic, Neurodivergent & Disabled Lives
Mycelium and rhizome as metaphors for Autistic community, care, and neurodivergent becoming — moving beyond deficit toward interdependence and identity.
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Expanding the Mycelial Network of Care: Autistic Community, Safety, and Rhizomatic Futures
The article explores the Autistic community as a living ecology, utilising the concepts of rhizomes and mycelium to illustrate support systems that facilitate belonging and recovery from burnout. It…
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Autistic Burnout and Liminal Sleep Threshold: Hypnopompic and Hypnagogic Experiences
Explore the possible link between Autistic burnout and liminal sleep states such as hypnopompic and hypnagogic experiences through a neuroqueer lens.
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Autistic Burnout Recovery as Ecological Re-assembly (Part 3)
Explore Autistic burnout recovery through ecological re-assembly. Learn how rest, environment, sensory safety, and identity support sustainable healing and renewal.
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Re-worlding Neurodiversity: Monotropism, Ecological Belonging and Neuroqueer Futures (Part 1)
Explore how monotropism shapes neurodivergent attention, learning and wellbeing. This accessible guide explains rhizomes, mycelial care networks and re-worlding through neuroqueer and ecological…
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Weird Pride in a Hostile World
Weird Pride is a practice of becoming. A refusal to shrink. A quiet, feral devotion to staying alive as ourselves in a world that keeps trying to make us something else.
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The Autistic Rhizome: Community, Liminal Spaces & Belonging
Autistic belonging grows through community, from liminal spaces, not conformity.
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Autistic Identity As Becoming: The Fluidity Of Autism
This episode explores Autistic identity not as a fixed label, but as something living, responsive, and shaped over time. Rather than treating “realising you’re Autistic” as the end of a journey, this…
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Masking, Meaning, and Becoming Yourself
This episode of Autistic Identity With NeuroHub is an invitation to slow down and sit with Autistic identity as something lived, negotiated, and continually re-formed; not a static label or a…
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Stimming as Embodied Sensory Language
Reframing stimming beyond “behaviour” as embodied sensory language, monotropic flow, and neuroqueer, interdependent connection with the world.
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Folding Worlds: Monotropism & Neuroqueering Attention
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.
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From Autistic Realms to More Realms: Exploring Other Ways of Being
By Helen Edgar, Autistic Realms At the heart of everything I do is a belief that lived experience and Autistic lives matter. What if support for Autistic children began with listening to Autistic…
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From Autistic Realms to More Realms: Exploring Other Ways of Being
Journey from Autistic Realms into More Realms—where neuro-affirming support meets creative, sensory, and neuroqueer explorations of other ways of being.
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Neuroqueer Learning Spaces: Free Training for Reimagining Education
Neuroqueer Learning Spaces: Free Training for Reimagining Education By Autistic Realms & Stimpunks Foundation
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The Power of Monotropic Flow: Reclaiming Ourselves Through Creative Practice
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…
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An Open Framework For Neuroqueer Learning Spaces
In Neuroqueer Heresies, Nick Walker (2021) describes embracing neuroqueering as a verb. When considering Neuroqueer Learning Spaces, we need to reinterpret, rethink, redefine, and reimagine what…
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Neuroqueer Learning Spaces
“Intentionally liberating oneself from the culturally ingrained and enforced performance of neuronormativity can be thought of as neuroqueering” (Walker, 2021). This blog is published on Stimpunks…