From the Edge of the Gyre: Yeats, Symphrenia and the Centre that Cannot Hold
An Autistic ADHD, symphrenic reading of Yeats’s “The Second Coming”: why the centre cannot hold, and how community without a centre can hold us instead.
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An Autistic ADHD, symphrenic reading of Yeats’s “The Second Coming”: why the centre cannot hold, and how community without a centre can hold us instead.

Content note: this post discusses psychosis, hallucinations, delusions, psychiatric labelling and coercive psychiatric practice. I experience hallucinations, I experience what psychiatry would call…

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…

I did not choose addiction, I chose survival in the only ways available to me at the time, and that distinction matters in ways I am still finding language for. It is not a deflection of…

Anne Borden King is an autistic woman who co-founded Autistics for Autistics (A4A), the Canadian self-advocacy & education group. With her leadership, A4A helped open public funding for AAC, speech…

Who gets to tell the story of autism? For many of us, our earliest understandings of autism came from professionals, reports, and systems that framed Autistic lives through deficit, risk, and…

This episode is an exploration of my experiences with healthcare professionals, and the experiences of the countless Autistic people I have met and worked with. I explore the impact of Doctors and…
Honouring the brilliant philosopher Helen De Cruz, whose work on wonder, thinking, and inclusion helped shape and inspire our Neuroqueer Learning Spaces and Cavendish Space. Her ideas continue to…