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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We write this from lived experience. As neurodivergent people with our own experiences of attention, imagery and unusual sensory life, we come to these ideas from the inside as well as from the…
If Helen De Cruz designed a learning space, what would it look like? Helen Edgar follows wonder and awe through monotropism, glimmers, flow and Cavendish Space.
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.
Week 39 runs Sunday 2026-09-20 through Saturday 2026-09-26. The day headings below carry their dates. The companion piece is Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 39 2026: From the Street to the World,…
Week 38 runs Sunday 2026-09-13 through Saturday 2026-09-19. The day headings below carry their dates. Best Accomplishments Helen Edgar stopped being a contributor to this work and became a peer in…
Mapping Monotropism in Education is new: Helen Edgar on what the map means at school. It comes from the Yellow Ladybugs panel she gave with Dr Wenn Lawson in June 2025, and it is for teachers,…
Draw a map is new, and version one has not gone anywhere. They ask different questions. The marking tool asks where you are on Helen's map; the new one hands over blank ground and a tray of shapes…
The map's author read the forty passages Stimpunks wrote onto her map, and sent notes on eighteen of them. Those notes are now the pages. This is the part of the process the site was built around:…
monotropicmap.org exists. The Map of Monotropic Experiences has its own home, built on Helen Edgar's go-ahead with joint Stimpunks and Autistic Realms attribution settled first. What is here Both…
Limerence read as monotropic attention rather than as a disorder — Glass, Beethoven, Huxley and García Márquez held against the line in Browning where a love poem stops climbing and comes down to the…
Exploring Bagpuss through a neurodivergent lens: monotropism, slow attention, and the quiet beauty of restoring meaning to lost and overlooked things.
Why this cabinet has a sibling built on science: the fox and the hedgehog from Archilochus to Berlin to Gould, two public-domain animal poems that end in the same place, and the spiky profile the…
Monotropa uniflora, the ghost pipe: a plant with no chlorophyll that feeds off fungi, the flower Emily Dickinson called the preferred flower of life, and the Greek root it shares with monotropism.
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.…
Birds cross oceans by using their inner compass. What if we could do the same? A reflection on migration, monotropism, and self-trust.
What if the thing that made Odysseus remarkable wasn't his many turns, but the one thing that never turned? A personal, AuDHD read on Homer's Odyssey and the words polytropos and monotropos.
A plain-language guide to monotropism, wonder and awe — what happens when Autistic and ADHD attention is given space to notice, and stay
Autistic burnout, monotropism, meerkat mode, AuDHD, neurodivergent reflection, liminal states, executive dysfunction, flow state
A reflection from Stimpunks Solidarity Sesh on otters, monotropism, and co-regulation, and what watching them together each week teaches us
Multisensory Play Ideas: Little Fluffy Clouds Sensory Session
Monotropa Uniflora & Monotropism: A Tribute to Dinah Murray
Helen Edgar explores monotropism, awe, and Autistic identity through a personal constellation map — weaving quantum physics, Deleuze, and star stuff.
What does Wuthering Heights look like through a neurodivergent lens? An Autistic personal reflection on monotropism, intensity, and love.
In this episode of Autistic Storytime With David, we explore two interconnected concepts developed by fellow advocate and researcher Tanya Adkin: monotropic split, the cognitive injury that occurs…