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Author: David Gray-Hammond

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  • David Gray-Hammond is an Autistic, ADHD, and Schizophrenic author. He wrote "The New Normal: Autistic musings on the threat of a broken society" and "Unusual Medicine: Essays on Autistic experience and drug addiction".

    He works as a consultant, mentor, trainer, and advocate, with a particular focus on the intersection between Autistic experience and substance use/complex mental health concerns.

    He has worked with Clinical Commissioning Groups on harm reduction schemes and to represent the rights of neurodivergent people in substance use treatment. He can be found online, or spending time with his family.

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Monotropism, neurodiversity, Lilipadding, Mental Health, Autistic Wellbeing, General Wellbeing, Neuroqueering, ADHD, AuDHD

Lilipadding Through Autistic Burnout: A Practical Guide to Rehabilitation

by Tanya Adkin, David Gray-Hammond 0
Autistic burnout is a profound exhaustion stemming from unmet societal expectations. It manifests as brain fog, physical depletion, and loss of coping strategies.... Read more.
Theory In Practice, Monotropism, neurodiversity, Neuroqueering, Mental Health, Autistic Wellbeing, Neurofuturism, Autistic Rhizome, Autistic Sensory Experience, Autistic Culture

Living Between Lilipads: A Philosophy For Neurodivergent Thriving (Part 1)

by Tanya Adkin, David Gray-Hammond 0
For Autistic and otherwise neurodivergent people, life often feels like an endless demand to leap; from one task to another, from one conversation to the next, from... Read more.
Autistic Rhizome, Theory In Practice, Monotropism, Trauma, neurodiversity

Lilipadding for Autistic People: Reducing Transitional Trauma for Monotropic Minds

by Tanya Adkin, David Gray-Hammond 2
Monotropism, and the subsequent work of Tanya Adkin in conceptualising Monotropic split, has been an incredibly meaningful set of ideas for the neurodivergent community.... Read more.
Autistic Parenting, neurodiversity, disability, Autism, Autistic Rights, Harmful Cures, Society

The Facebook Group Claiming Autistic Kids Are Telepathic

by David Gray-Hammond 0
The Telepathy Tapes is a podcast with an extraordinary claim: non-speaking Autistic people are telepathic. Unsurprisingly, this has stirred a lot of talk online,... Read more.
Autism, neurodiversity, Autistic Rights, disability, Autistic Pride, Society, Autistic Culture

Why Autism Awareness & Acceptance Are Relevant To Autism Diagnosis

by David Gray-Hammond 0
Every April Autistic people find themselves under fire in online spaces. The key debate that causes this comes down to whether April should be known as Autism Acceptance... Read more.
Autistic Education, Autistic Wellbeing, Society, disability, neurodiversity, Autistic Rights

New UK Government Education Hub Now Overtly Discriminates Against Neurodivergent Children

by David Gray-Hammond 1
On March 12th, 2025 the Department for Education launched it’s new Education Hub. It is immediately clear from the accompanying social media posts that this... Read more.

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