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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Plain-language explainers on the big ideas, from what neurodivergent means to burnout, spoons and neuroqueer, for anyone just finding their way in.
Neurodivergent means thinking, processing, learning and responding in ways that differ from the majority. A plain-language guide to what the word means, who it includes and what it is not.
What neuroqueer means: Nick Walker's definition, where the word comes from, how it differs from neurodivergent, and what neuroqueering looks like in everyday life.
Autistic burnout and depression can look the same from the outside but need different support. The differences, where they overlap, and what helps each.
What spoon theory means for Autistic people: how everyday tasks use up limited energy, why spoons run out faster, and how monotropism and burnout fit in. Includes a free how-to-use guide and…
Zine No. 3 — Foundations What the paradigm actually claims. What it means to say variation instead of disorder.
Access now Exclusively available until November 18th! Featuring more than 50 neuroaffirming resources from dozens of advocates and practitioners, this is a truly unmissable collaboration offering…
NeuroHub’s own podcast has launched its second season with an episode on ‘existential diversity’, an idea that asks what is wrong with the world around autistic people rather than what is wrong with…
NeuroHub’s podcast Autistic Identity With NeuroHub has started its second season with an episode on existential diversity, an idea that asks what is wrong with the world around autistic people rather…
NeuroHub’s own podcast has released its first episode, in which David Gray-Hammond and Helen Edgar argue for asking what is wrong with the world around a struggling person, not just what is wrong…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thewiderexistence.co.uk When a person is struggling, the first question is almost always the same: what is wrong with this person? In…
Just What Does Spider-Man Have to Do with Demand Avoidance? by Stephen Ashfield and Dr Claire Stubbs The new Spider-Man movie sees our hero battling villains aplenty (though not the ones I want to…
I always thought that one of the biggest problems I've ever had is that I'm just clumsy and accident prone. Often I thought of myself as the Inspector Clouseau of journalism. I'd get my story in the…
What is a Body without Organs? In this post from my Neuroqueering Deleuze series, I read Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus through Autistic lived experience: plateaus and rhizomes, the egg,…
In an essay on the NeuroHub Connect blog, David Gray-Hammond asks whether he can feel Autistic at all, and concludes that being Autistic feels like being himself. (AI-written · AI fact-checked.)
When a person is struggling, there are two questions available. The first is always asked: what is wrong with this person? The second hardly ever gets asked: what is wrong with the world around them?…
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The result is what Foucault calls the production of docile bodies. PolScience, Michel Foucault: Discipline and Punish Explained | How Modern Power Controls Us The decisive question is no longer…
Yesterday’s article made one move; from asking what is wrong with this person? to asking what is this distress responding to? Today is about what the ecosystem is actually made of, and why distress…
What does neurodivergent spirituality mean? In this episode of The Mycelial Mind: NeuroKin Conversations, hosts David Gray-Hammond and Adele Murray explore neurodivergent spirituality, isolation and…
What does neurodivergent spirituality mean? In this episode of The Mycelial Mind: NeuroKin Conversations, hosts David Gray-Hammond and Adele Murray explore neurodivergent spirituality, isolation and…
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.
There are two observable questions made available when a person is struggling. The first gets asked constantly “What is wrong with this person?” It positions the problem inside a bodymind and…
Welcome to October’s Neurodiversity Newsletter October is both AAC Awareness Month and ADHD Awareness Month, designed to dispel myths and spread understanding. Augmentative and alternative…
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…