Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar)

Happy Weird Pride Day to all who celebrate!

I'm really happy with how it's coming together so far. I hope we'll see a good few people posting bits of writing and videos and things today, too, besides the things I've directly organised myself (with help from many others)...

Spotlight on Weird Pride Day with Fergus Murray, AuDHD Writer, Community Organiser and Science Educator Celebrating Weird Pride Day on March 4th

Spotlight on @weirdpride.day: I wrote a piece for @jadefarrington.bsky.social's excellent newsletter.
open.substack.com/pub/jadefarr...

Thank you to Fergus for writing this piece about today's Weird Pride Day!

Discover the origins and what's happening to celebrate.

Joanne on @zackpolanski.bsky.social: "he's like the neurodivergent person at the meeting, going 'I'm going to say the thing that everyone else is avoiding saying, because I don't know why they're avoiding saying it, because it's actually the point that they're talking round and round.'"

SO TRUE.

A Naomi C Fisher tweet: "Last month we interviewed @FrithUta for our new podcast, Let's Talk Neurosense: the psychology of neurodiversity. She touched on many of the themes in her @tes interview, in particular should we be dividing the autism spectrum into subgroups and how masking has affected the way that we understand autism. Here's our interview. @helenlewis @Docstockk @jon_severs Why we need to rethink the autism spectrum with Dame Uta Frith" [Substack URL omitted]

Daaaaamn. Of all the people I once admired who've ended up disappointing, Naomi Fisher appears determined to displace Judy Singer in the Most Disappointing stakes.

Here she is tagging Kathleen Stock and Helen Lewis in a tweet about her supportive interview with Uta Frith for her new podcast.

Yes - i feel really sad about it all.... it was too late to change our refs they we wrote this nearly 2 years ago now... it is sad though.

SPLENDID, thorough breakdown of what makes ABA toxic and abusive even when they try to soften the nature of a program that's designed to mold children into compliance and disregard for their own needs.

Autistic Burnout: Ecosystemic Disonnection Autistic burnout is more than exhaustion. It’s a crisis of connection across body, relationships, and systems. Learn signs, causes, and recovery.

Autistic Burnout: Ecosystemic Disonnection

Autistic burnout is more than exhaustion. It’s a crisis of connection across body, relationships, and systems. Learn signs, causes, and recovery.

Guided Meditation And Self-Regulation For Autistic Distress | NeuroHub | Mindfully Divergent YouTube video by David Gray-Hammond: NeuroHub Community

Being brave and using my Mindfulness teacher training to put some guided meditations out into the world. Here is my first one

youtu.be/Pi34XGp2JuU?...

#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticMeltdown #autism #MentalHealth #Mindfulness

Therapists Are Trained to Interpret. Autistic People Need to Be Heard. Is therapy trying to interpret something uninterpretable?

Shared via John Drury on LinkedIn

Therapists Are Trained to Interpret. Autistic People Need to Be Heard. Is therapy trying to interpret something uninterpretable?

jonnydrury.substack.com/p/therapists...

The Autistic Burnout Virtual Conference 2026 A two day conference on June 5th & 6th with neurodivergent speakers. A deep dive into autistic and other neurodivergent burnout and recovery

We are looking forward to joining The Autistic Burnout Network virtual conference later this year hosted by @vivdawes.bsky.social

Our founder and CEO @taraodk.bsky.social will be presenting about the experiences of Autistic adults and burnout.
Find out more:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-autist...

Guided Meditation And Self-Regulation For Autistic Distress | NeuroHub | Mindfully Divergent YouTube video by David Gray-Hammond: NeuroHub Community

This is great from @neurohubcommunity.org

Guided Meditation And Self-Regulation For Autistic Distress

youtu.be/Pi34XGp2JuU?...

Neuroqueer Learning Spaces: Free Training for Reimagining Education | Autistic Realms Neuroqueer Learning Spaces: Free Training for Reimagining Education By Autistic Realms & Stimpunks Foundation

@liamrenmac.bsky.social you may also be interested in this project I collaborated on with @stimpunks.org
autisticrealms.com/neuroqueer-l...

autisticrealms.com/neuroqueer-l...

eponine//eponym | Collection from DECA//BILL | 4 posts Get more from DECA//BILL on Patreon

there's some neuroqueer identity essays/poetry/hybridwhatevers in this collection

Oh hurrah - I am all connected now!

Neuroqueer Learning Spaces: Free Training for Reimagining Education | Autistic Realms Neuroqueer Learning Spaces: Free Training for Reimagining Education By Autistic Realms & Stimpunks Foundation

@liamrenmac.bsky.social you may also be interested in this project I collaborated on with @stimpunks.org
autisticrealms.com/neuroqueer-l...

autisticrealms.com/neuroqueer-l...

I highly recommend giving this short article a read. By framing fascism as a psychological or cognitive aberration, not only do we uphold neuronormative structures, but we also fail to see how fascism is a response to challenges to ruling class power in a state of crisis and decay.

White System, Black Therapist: Racism, Resistance and Reimagining Speech and Language Therapy In this book, Warda Farah brings a fresh perspective to the field of Speech and Language Therapy, challenging traditional approaches and opening crucial conversations about race, culture, and neurodiv...

Reading an advance copy of White System, Black Therapist by @wardasworld.bsky.social. Cannot recommend it highly enough: for understanding speech therapy, education, colonial institutions, and more. Its so well written and filled with great personal insight theoretical nuance. Preorder and read!

Neurodiversity is More Than... - Durham University

Ah yes... let's chat. I didn't realise you were there too. Exciting... there was more of this discussion yesterday where @neurohubcommunity.org and I presented with others - it was a v good event!
@ombretarragnat.bsky.social do you know about recordings?

www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

@dr-nicky.bsky.social @drrobertchapman.bsky.social :)

Ooooh.... nice!

@neurohubcommunity.org and I have been writing about this too...

From Neuroqueer Rhetoric to Neurocommunism: Ontology, Praxis, and New Forms of Life Some thinking I have been doing about 'Neurocommunism'

My first substack post is live!

‘Neurocommunism refers to a political ontology in which forms of collective life are organised around neuroqueer sensory, communicative and relational practices rather than normative capitalist productivity and communicability’.

2026 Virtual Summer Conference Dear all, We are excited to invite you to the Neurodivergent Music Studies Conference on June 26th (synchronous) and July 1st 2026 (asynchronous).  Our virtual event is held by the Neurodivergent...

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS

For the Neurodivergent Music Studies Conference: a two day, fully virtual conference on June 26th (synchronous) and July 1st (asynchronous).

theneurodivergentmusicnetwork.weebly.com/2026-virtual...

#MusicSky #AcademicSky #AutRes #Music #Research

Time to re-share this piece I made a year ago today about neurodiversity and neurodivergence, and why the important distinctions between them is not about grammar/linguistics.

It's my favorite holiday, WEIRD PRIDE DAY!

I'll be spending the day being weird (same thing I do every day, Pinky).

Here's a nice thread of Weird Pride events.

Or, you can celebrate Weird Pride Day by catching up on the Weird Luck webcomic!

#weird #weirdpride

weirdluck.net/weird-luck-c...

Dr Nick Walker, "Understanding Neurodivergence and Neuroexpansiveness" YouTube video by Heidi Lockwood

Here's the video of my February 25th talk for Southern Connecticut State University. Two hours (including lots of interesting Q&A), with ASL translation!

#neurodiversity #neuroqueer #neuroqueering #neurodivergence #autism #consciousness #mind #disability #academia

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL8j...

Thank you Helen for reposting this and for all you do @autisticrealms.bsky.social to create Windows of Safety...🧡💚🌈

Maybe what we really need is a Window of Safety a modest proposal on Weird Pride Day for we who are assaulted daily by the neuronormative world as we attempt to navigate it (and for allies who want to help us create sanctuary spaces)

A wonderful piece by @julialeebarclay.bsky.social about @weirdpride.day and 'Maybe what we really need is a Window of Safety.....'

julialeebarclaymorton.substack.com/p/maybe-what...

Maybe what we really need is a Window of Safety a modest proposal on Weird Pride Day for we who are assaulted daily by the neuronormative world as we attempt to navigate it (and for allies who want to help us create sanctuary spaces)

A wonderful piece by @julialeebarclay.bsky.social about @weirdpride.day and 'Maybe what we really need is a Window of Safety.....'

julialeebarclaymorton.substack.com/p/maybe-what...

Weird to me that flow state could be viewed pathologically(as a disease) when it's every coder's dream.
Also🤷
"Participants were treated as experts in autistic flow through their own lived experience, and were later invited to review the team's interpretations to ensure they felt accurate and true."