Grateful to Ave Astra for publishing this poem, that is really special to me as it outlines ideas of #neuroqueering the spaces where most connections and thus opportunities are made, which are currently incredible #neurotypical
#ActualAutistic #AutieType #poetry #LoudReading

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...

Excellent webinar! Dr Brian Irvine’s approaches remind me of bell hooks’ #TeachingToTransgress ✨

#neuro-affirming
#neuroqueering

Slow of Speech, Not of Truth | Parashat Shemot Emphasis my own, unless otherwise stated. > **A text that is truly infinite doesn’t flatten with repetition. It deepens. Each encounter exposes something new, not because the text has changed, but because we have.** That’s precisely why we start reading the Torah at the very moment we finish reading it. As we change, so does Torah. That’s what makes it eternal and infinite. > [Exodus, or _Shemot_] centres autistic and disabled experience and uses that lens to unsettle familiar assumptions about leadership, authority, communication, and belonging. This isn’t a diagnostic project. I am not claiming Moses “was autistic” in any modern sense. That kind of framing is beside the point. The question here is hermeneutical, not cognitive: what becomes visible when we read Moses through an autistic lens? What does the story disclose about difference, power, ableism, and survival when we stop forcing it into neuronormative categories? > > **To read Torah neuroqueerly is to refuse the idea that interpretation is neutral. Neuroqueer Torah actively resists the ableist, cisnormative, heteronormative, and masculinist assumptions that shape so much traditional exegesis.** It isn’t just about recognising ourselves in the text. It’s about changing what kinds of readings are permitted to count as serious, legitimate, and faithful. When marginalised readers engage Torah, we don’t distort it. We reveal fault lines that have always been there. > **This in-betweenness is deeply familiar to autistic experience. Alienation doesn’t always come from explicit rejection. Often it comes from perpetual misattunement — being close enough to participate, never close enough to belong.** Masking becomes a way to reduce friction, but it doesn’t create safety. It produces exhaustion. What does it do to a person’s sense of self to grow up always adapting, always translating, always wondering which part of them is unacceptable this time? > Moses’ way of perceiving the world also sets him apart. When he encounters the burning bush, he doesn’t rush past it. He doesn’t dismiss it. He pauses. He turns aside. He wants to understand why it burns without being consumed. This isn’t incidental detail. It’s a description of attentiveness. > > Many autistic people recognise this immediately: the pull toward depth, pattern, and anomaly. A refusal to skim. A need to stay with what doesn’t resolve quickly. In a culture that values speed, efficiency, and surface-level comprehension, this way of perceiving is often pathologised. And yet here, it is precisely this attentiveness that makes encounter possible. **Moses meets the Divine not through conformity, but through sustained noticing.** > What Moses actually does in the text is remarkable. He doesn’t ask to be fixed. He doesn’t promise to try harder. He names his limits and refuses to pretend they don’t exist. That isn’t resignation. It’s clarity. > > And the response isn’t “cure”. It’s accommodation. > > The Divine tells Moses that he will accommodate his disability with someone to support him. > > Moses’ brother Aaron isn’t some consolation prize. He’s a structural necessity. Leadership reorganises itself to include Moses as he is. > > **This isn’t a story about overcoming disability. It is a story about refusing to exclude it.** > Reading Moses through an autistic lens doesn’t flatten him into pathology, but rather restores complexity and allows us to read leaders in a new light. It allows us to see leadership as something other than performance and dominance. **It shows us authority that depends on accommodation, collaboration, and honesty rather than erasure.** > > It also forces a harder reckoning with alienation. How many autistic humans live like Moses — moving between communities, never fully at home, tolerated until inconvenient? How often is difference only acceptable when it is useful?

Nice response to the curric & assess review. In case it’s paywalled for you, @missgoodyear.bsky.social & @samgibbs.bsky.social conspicuously don’t go down the ‘implementation’ of ‘what works’ (ie data-farming) path, but instead go with attuning to & meeting actual needs.

Happy #neuroqueering! 🦋

Ooh, is now the time to talk about #neuroqueering?

Neuroqueer Learning Spaces …intentionally liberating oneself from the culturally ingrained and enforced performance of neuronormativity can be thought of as neuroqueering. Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradi...

Which often leaves individual staff members - and some specialist settings - #neuroqueering their curriculum & environment, at least to some extent.

stimpunks.org/projects/neu...

💥 Oh my #looner #popper #neuroqueering #balloons

Dancing 🕺🏽 in leather pants #2pups1podcast #neuroqueering #nonbinaryartist

Autism and Psychedelics: A Continuing Conversation with Nick Walker and Daan Keiman - OPEN Foundation Join Dr. Nick Walker and Daan Keiman for a deep dive into the evolving intersection of psychedelics, autism, and neurodiversity. This follow-up conversation builds on earlier insights, exploring how p...

Coming this Wednesday!

#psychedelics #psychedelictherapy #psychedelicscience #psychology #psychotherapy #therapy #mind #cognition #consciousness #neurodiversity #neurodivergence #autism #autistic #neuroqueering

open-foundation.org/events/onlin...

Neurodiversity & Neurodivergence: What Really Is It? Understanding what makes neurodivergent people neurodivergent

How do we know neurodivergent people are truly neurodivergent? That is the question I have attempted to answer. What are your thoughts?

www.davidgrayhammond.co.uk/p/neurodiver...

#Neurodivergent #neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #neuronormativity #Neuroqueering

Here's the video of my 6/26 conversation on "Neuroqueering Somatics," hosted by the International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association.

#neuroqueer #neuroqueering #neurodiversity #somatics #psychology #consciousness #cognition #awareness #embodiment

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

The Autistic Rhizome: Reclaiming Knowledge, Rewriting Reality A tribute to the growth of Autistic community

My most in-depth discussion of the Autistic rhizome so far. I hope that people find value in it!

www.davidgrayhammond.co.uk/p/the-autist...

#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticRhizome #NeuroqueerTheory #Neuroqueering #neurodiversity

Anlässlich des Autism Pride Days im Pride Month sprechen wir nachher im Stream mal n bisschen über #neuroqueering und #autigender und gucken uns n paar Sachen dazu an. Ca 14:30/15 Uhr auf twitch.tv/bommel

Episode 7 - Exploring the Burden of the Gender Binary with Anna Thomas (They / Them) Queering Internal Family Systems (IFS) · Episode

Podcast - exploring the burdens of the gender binary. #skyifs #internalfamilysysyems #queerpodcasting #neuroqueering #ifspodcasts #genderisaconstruct open.spotify.com/episode/54Qq...

Managing Fear & Anxiety With Neuroqueer Resistance My Journey From Avoidance To Resistance In the background is the article cover picture with the same words

How neuroqueer theory has supported my mental health recovery process

www.davidgrayhammond.co.uk/p/managing-f...

#NeuroqueerTheory #neuroqueering #ActuallyAutistic #MentalHealth

Finding My Self In Queered Realities Madness, Psychosis, Insight

My subscription platform where I explore my more personal and philosophically oriented thoughts is slowly building.

www.davidgrayhammond.co.uk/p/finding-my...

#ActuallyAutistic #neuronormativity #NeuroqueerTheory #Neuroqueering #neurodiversity

Episode 5 - Queering Sexuality in Internal Family Systems (IFS) - The P of Passion Queering Internal Family Systems (IFS) · Episode

open.spotify.com/episode/1yM7...

Another episode of Queering IFS featuring a conversation around sexuality in internal family systems (IFS). With guest Ali Bushell.

#skyifs #internalfamilysystems #queering #neuroqueering #podcasting #neurodivergentifs #ifs

Beyond Neurotyping: Towards the Liberation of Neurocognitive Identity - Emergent Divergence Neurodiversity is, at it's core, an axis of biodiversity (Chapman, 2023) . It is a paradigm built on the assumption that human bodyminds are unique and variable (Walker, 2021) while remaining responsi...

Here is a blog I wrote based on my reading of the work of @drrobertchapman.bsky.social and @dr-nicky.bsky.social

emergentdivergence.com/2025/02/08/b...

#NeuroqueerTheory #neuroqueering #neurofuturism #Autistic #AutisticIdentity #neurodiversity #Identity #neurodivergent

Episode 3 - IFS and Pronouns - Why They Matter Inside and Out! Queering Internal Family Systems (IFS) · Episode

New Podcast! Available on Spotify and Apple. IFS and Pronouns, why they matter inside and out.

#IFS #internalfamilysystems #queeringinternalfamilysystems #pronounsmatter #queering #neuroqueering #queerpodcasting #IFSpodcasts

open.spotify.com/episode/4I5s...

Queering Internal Family Systems Podcast · Jude Carn, Alessio Rizzo · A new podcast by two Internal Family Systems (IFS) psychotherapists, Alessio Rizzo and Jude Carn uses the lenses of queering, neuroqueering, queerness and neurodiv...

Here is my podcast - it is neurodivergent and queer AF. open.spotify.com/show/0vmdG7h...

#internalfamilysystems #IFS #neuroqueering #queering #podcast #queer #spotifypodcasts #IFSpodcast #neurodivergenttherapistsrock

How to #neuroqueer your school and improve accessibility for #autistic and other #neurodivergent children without saying you’re #neuroqueering. Framing this as ‘learner effectiveness’ is very cool and nicely subversive ✨

Reclaiming Neurofuturism: Rhizomatic communities and the Chaotic Self - Emergent Divergence I have recently begun to explore the idea of the Autistic Rhizome as a futurist ideal of what the Autistic community could look like. In this concept, we explore communities that exist of networks wit...

Seeing as my latest article was quite well received on here, I thought people might be interested in this piece that arose from mine and @autisticrealms.bsky.social love of Deluze & Guattari.

emergentdivergence.com/2023/04/30/r...

#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticRhizome #neuroqueering #NeuroqueerTheory

Beyond Neurotyping: Towards the Liberation of Neurocognitive Identity - Emergent Divergence Neurodiversity is, at it's core, an axis of biodiversity (Chapman, 2023) . It is a paradigm built on the assumption that human bodyminds are unique and variable (Walker, 2021) while remaining responsi...

New Article! Beyond Neurotyping: Towards the Liberation of Neurocognitive Identity

emergentdivergence.com/2025/02/08/b...

#ActuallyAutistic #autism #Autistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neuroqueering #neuroqueertheory

Is #neurodiversity a Global Northern White paradigm?.

another eye-opening article I've come across while writing my #neuroqueering digital youth work chapter.

Nair, V. K., Farah, W., & Boveda, M. (2024) #Autism,

LINK:journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1362361...

text on white: Acknowledging that “neuroqueering is open to everyone but requires a lot of unlearning, relearning, creating and recreating” (Boren & Edgar, 2024: n.a.), I recognise my own limitations during this early process of conceptualisation of neuroqueering in the context of digital youth work. With nearly a decade of experience as both a digital youth worker and a researcher in digital youth work, I have observed the gradual transition of this practice from the periphery to the mainstream of non-formal education. Consistent with existing scholarship in the field, I maintain that digital youth work requires further research and systemic support to better understand its role and impact within digital society. However, while my background in digital youth work research and practice is extensive, my knowledge and experience with neuroqueering remain relatively limited. As a peripherally white, 40-year-old Polish migrant in the UK, my ADHD diagnosis two years ago was both shocking and liberating. By framing my personal experiences in education—as a student, youth worker, and researcher—within the neurodiversity-affirming paradigm, I am gaining a critical understanding of the systemic barriers and structural challenges neurodivergent people might face in educational settings. My evolving understanding of neurodiversity also informs my work as a researcher and educator, but it has made me acutely aware that my process of re-learning how to learn may be a lifelong learning experience. However, despite my limited experience of neuroqueering, I find reassurance in Walker’s non-conceptualisation of neuroqueering as a practice that is inclusive and open to all. Advocating against authoritative framing of what neuroqueering should mean and who can engage with it, she states in her “Anyone who engages in any of those [practices that fall within the definition of neuroqueering] practices can call themselves neuroqueer anytime they damn well want” (2021:166).

this chapter on #neuroqueering digital youth work has taken me longer then anticipated & the editors have just provided me with a wee extension - for the 2nd time.

i know my stuff in digital youth work, but #neuroqueering is super new to me. its exciting, fascinating, confusing, and scary 🌈🧠