Welcome. I am Helen Edgar, she or they, a late-identified Autistic and ADHD writer, educator, community facilitator and advocate. I am the founder of Autistic Realms and More Realms. Before this, I was a teacher for those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities for more than twenty years in the UK. On this page you can find out more about me, the ways I work with families, professionals and organisations, my presentations, events and writing, the communities I belong to, and how to get in touch. Choose a card to go deeper. If you’d like the longer story, there is a full About Me page too, read aloud in my voice.
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Welcome. I am Helen, an Autistic ADHD community educator, writer and advocate. Here you can find out more about me, the ways I work with families, professionals and organisations, and how to get in touch.
About Me
Who I am: a late-identified Autistic ADHD community educator, former SEND teacher of more than twenty years, author and founder of Autistic Realms.
For Families
Neuro-affirming resources, workshops and guidance for parents and carers supporting young Autistic people at home, at school and through burnout.
For Professionals
Bespoke neuro-affirming training, webinars and workshops for schools, universities, social care and healthcare teams.
Consultancy
Consultancy, research advisory roles and co-production with charities, universities and community organisations.
Talks and Conferences
Talks, conferences, webinars and podcasts on monotropism, Autistic burnout, barriers to education and neuro-affirming practice.
Partnerships
The community spaces, organisations and research partners I work alongside, building mutual support, solidarity and Autistic-led advocacy.
Writing and Resources
My books, book chapters, articles, guest blogs and e-books on monotropism, Autistic burnout, PMLD and neuro-affirming practice.
More Realms
My sibling site for longer, academic-adjacent writing on neuroqueer theory, monotropism, posthumanism and other ways of being.
Content Index
A full, searchable index of every guide, page and resource on Autistic Realms, updated as new content is published.
NeuroHub Community
I am Co-Director and Community Facilitator of NeuroHub, a neurodivergent-led community offering peer support, courses and training.
Stimpunks
I am Co-Creative Director of Stimpunks Foundation, a disabled and neurodivergent-led mutual aid and public education project, with Ryan Boren.
Contact
Get in touch about training, consultancy, collaborations or speaking, and sign up for my free newsletter.
The Faery Yurt is my corner of Stimpunks.World: a candlelit tent pitched at the edge of the campgrounds, past the treeline, where the light is soft and nothing moves unless you ask it to. Inside there’s a glimmer window that opens onto somewhere else, a gallery of Pre-Raphaelite dreamers, a regulation nook for when the world is too much, and a bowl by the door for leaving pebbles. Three oak doors open onto deep space and lead further in: a gothic Reading Room with every book I keep, a Music Room where my playlists spin on a gramophone, and a little picture palace where the films I love hang on old reels, from Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty to whale song, starlight and Gilmore Girls. Join the faeries, grow a garden, or simply sit by the candles. It’s a place to rest, wander and wonder, and to stay as long as you like.
Just like in the yurt, nothing moves until you press it, and pressing again clears it. The garden takes about fifteen seconds to grow.
Doorways into the yurt
My latibulum has a sister space online. On Stimpunks.World, the street Ryan Boren and I dreamt up with the wider Stimpunks community, I keep a candlelit yurt pitched at the edge of the woods in the campgrounds, where it is a bit quieter.
Inside you will find my Library, a Music room where you can listen to Faery Yurt’s Yarn, a regulation nook, a glimmer window full of things that bring me joy, a nature field notebook full of mushroom and forest photographs, and you can also meet my four cats, Benji the dog and Gibbles the hamster. The door is always open, so come in and stay as long as you need to, pop a log on the fire, make some coffee and get cosy. See you on the flip side! Helen x
Impact and the Growing Rhizome
A rolling picture of what Autistic Realms and More Realms reach, and how the rhizome of this work keeps growing: posts, resources, downloads, readers, talks, publications and the communities that connect them. Live counts update themselves; the people behind the numbers are the part no table can hold.
Find out my stats and how the rhizome is growing.
Feeling low on coffee & spoons!
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Many thanks, love and glimmers, Helen x