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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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…
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…
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…
An Essay — Foundations An ethic you can only point at a person is an ethic that will keep finding the fault in the person.
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.…
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…
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…
Autistic Mental Health Conference 2026: Ecosystemic Causes of Mental Health Issues
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In this episode of Autistic Identity With NeuroHub, David Gray-Hammond explores the Ecosystemic Model of Distress and Wellbeing; a framework for understanding neurodivergent experience not as a…
Mycelium and rhizome as metaphors for Autistic community, care, and neurodivergent becoming — moving beyond deficit toward interdependence and identity.
What is community? Is it a tangible thing that we can reach out and hold, or is it a fundamentally philosophical endeavour that requires thought and exploration. This first episode of The Mycelial…
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…
There is a place many Autistic people end up that doesn’t exist on any official map. It’s not a clinic, or a service. It’s not even acknowledged as a system failure. Yet, it is one of the most…