Dive into a collection of articles that amplify neurodivergent voices, support a more thorough understanding of neurodiversity, and challenge common misconceptions.
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Author
- Abs S. Ashley
- Adam Fare
- Aimee Fletcher
- Aisling Sheehy
- Ann Memmott
- Antonia Aluko
- Callum Stephen Howes
- Cassandra Lovelock
- Cassandra Lovelock and El Dewar
- Charli Clement
- Claire
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- Darren O'Reilly
- Dr Virginia Carter Leno
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- Harriet Axbey
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- Iqra Babar
- Jill Corbyn
- Kai Schweizer
- Katrine Callander
- Kay Louise Aldred
- Krysia Waldock
- Kyra Thompson
- Lizzie Smith
- Lucy Gilbert
- Meena Kumari
- Molly Anderton
- Nick Ransom
- Reesha Zahir
- Remie Colledge
- Rhiannon Williams
- Rod Landman
- Rose Matthews
- Sarah Douglas
- Sarah Boon
- Sascha Bellamy
- Sophie Broadgate
- Stop Oxevision
- Thomas Barnett
- Tina
- Trauma Geek
- Warda Farah
From Belonging to Overwhelm: The Daily Reality of Shifting Spaces
Guest contributor, Remie Colledge, is optimistic that parts of society are showing glimmers of becoming more Neurodivergent-affirming… And yet, intolerance and discrimination still plagues marginalised communities.
In this blog, Remie explores what it is like to exist in a world where Neurodivergent people are both accepted and welcomed AND invalidated and excluded.
Navigating my relationship with change
A Guest Contributor shares reflections on their experience of change as an Autistic person with ADHD, and explores how they can be supported to navigate life’s inevitable changes.
‘I didn’t feel my grief was validated’ - An Autistic experience of navigating grief
Guest Contributor, Kyra Thompson, shares a deeply personal insight into her experience of grief as an Autistic woman from a Caribbean household.
When Your Challenge Becomes Your Calling: My ADHD Journey
Guest Contributor, Dr Darren O’Reilly, shares his unique personal and professional perspectives as a Chartered Counselling Psychologist, Founder of ADHDdegree and person with lived experience of ADHD.
Exploring the connections: dysregulation, burnout, and mental health
In this blog, Remie Colledge, Guest Contributor, shares reflections on her lived experience of mental health recovery, exploring the connections between cycles of dysregulation, Autistic burnout, relapse and recovery.
Awareness? Acceptance? Appreciation.
In acknowledgement of World Autism Awareness Day 2025, Lizzie Smith, Neurodiverse Connection’s Communications Lead, explores what awareness, acceptance and appreciation of Autism would actually look like.
My Embodied Experience of Autistic Joy
For Neurodiversity Celebration Week, Neurodiverse Connection’s Development Lead, Kay Louise Aldred, shares her personal exploration of Autistic joy as an embodied experience.
An Autistic journey of Anorexia recovery
In recognition of Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2025, Molly Anderton, NdC Lived Experience Advisor and Development Lead, shares a deeply personal account of how her experience of being a late diagnosed Autistic adult has impacted and informed her recovery from Anorexia.
Supporting an autistic loved one with an eating disorder
Our guest contributor shares a lived experience perspective on how families and loved ones of autistic individuals with eating disorders can navigate the complexities of offering support.
9 lessons learned from working in a non-Neurodivergent-affirming environment
Reflecting on their recent experience, NdC Development Lead Kay Louise Aldred shares some key lessons she learned from navigating a non-Neurodivergent-affirming workplace environment.
- ABA
- abuse
- accessible
- ADHD
- adults
- advocacy
- affirming
- aging
- assessment
- autism
- autistic parents
- black autistic
- building design
- burnout
- childhood
- children
- co production
- coercive control
- communication
- community
- culture
- depression
- Designing Homes for Sensory Differences Summit 2024
- diagnosis
- disability
- dyslexia
- eating disorders
- education
- empathy
- employment
- environment
- ethics
- family
- friendships
- GCC Summit 2023
- gender
- government
- grooming
- guidance
- health
- healthcare
- holiday
- housing
- human rights
- identity
- illness
- inclusion
- inpatient
- intersectionality
- joy
- language
- late diagnosed
- learning disability
- LGBTQIA+
- lived experience
- masking
- medicalisation
- meltdown
- mental health
- monotropism
- mothers
- nervous system
- newly diagnosed
- NHS
- online
- pain
- parents
- peer support
- play
- psychiatric care
- PTSD
- quality of life
- race
- racism
- reasonable adjustments
- relationships
- research
- resources
- routine
- school
- self diagnosis
- self regulation
- sensory environment
- sensory overwhelm
- sensory processing
- services
- sexism
- special interests
- spirituality
- stimming
- stress
- suicide
- support
- therapy
- training
- trauma
- trauma-informed
- women
- workplace
- young people
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