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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Mental health seen through the whole picture: the people, places and systems around us, not just what happens inside one head.
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…
For more than a century, the dominant Western approach to mental health has rested on a single assumption; that distress lives inside the person. If someone is struggling, something must be wrong…
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…
There’s a question I’ve been asking for years, and I want to ask it here before I tell you anything about conference tickets or timings: Who taught you that your distress was your fault? Because…
David Gray-Hammond explores his concept of the ecosystemic model of distress and how it explains mental health problems in Autistic people. David will be presenting on this topic with Tanya Adkin at…
The law needs a culprit. Criminal law has a job to do, and that job requires an individual. It requires a person who intended an outcome, or foresaw an outcome, or whom caused an outcome through…
Content note: this post discusses psychosis, hallucinations, delusions, psychiatric labelling and coercive psychiatric practice. I experience hallucinations, I experience what psychiatry would call…
Helen and I put a lot of work into the things we write and create, it costs a lot of time and energy in order to be able to make these things happen, and that means that we need to earn income from…
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…
Content note: this essay discusses psychosis, psychiatric diagnosis, burnout, and the institutional treatment of Mad people. It does not describe self-harm or crisis in detail. Support links are at…
I spent the first eighteen years of my life feeling like a broken neurotypical. The most common thing I heard from teachers and professionals was that I was incredibly intelligent, but failing to…
Townes Van Zandt, Vincent van Gogh, Sylvia Plath and Kurt Cobain, read against the myth that made them: four records in which the work was not the symptom but the thing that was going well.
An Essay — Foundations An ethic you can only point at a person is an ethic that will keep finding the fault in the person.
Zine No. 83 — Star Stuff On the root that opens a channel, the lawn that stays compacted, and why we keep asking survivors to do systems change.
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.…
The world of academia and knowledge-production is renowned for it’s disinterest in lived experience. While it is true that anecdotes are almost impossible to generalise in the statistical sense, the…
Therapy either upholds neuronormativity and pathologises Autistic people, or challenges normative values and supports Autistic wellbeing through neuroaffirming resistance. That’s the premise of my…
If you are Autistic, waiting for an assessment, or supporting an Autistic child, you have probably seen the headlines. People “incentivised” to get diagnoses, an overdiagnosis crisis, a government…
It’s no secret to the neurodivergent community at large that performing a neurocognitive style that differs from the neuronormative standard of our given culture is a challenge that is often…
Autistic Mental Health Conference 2026: Ecosystemic Causes of Mental Health Issues
Libby Hill is a consultant speech and language therapist (SLT) with a fascination for autism, including PDA, selective mutism and developmental language disorder. She has been an SLT for 40 years and…
Gang involvement among Autistic people is rarely discussed in neurodivergent-affirming spaces, and when it is discussed at all, it tends to be framed through a criminological or risk-management lens…
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Mamood Ahmad is a tutor, speaker, and author of A New Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy. He founded the #TADF community, which works proactively with training organisations to support the…