Welcome to Autistic Realms Newsletter!
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I’m excited to invite you to the Autistic Mental Health Conference 2025, on 16th August 2025 a groundbreaking hybrid event exploring the lived experiences and urgent challenges within Autistic mental health systems and support.
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As a valued supporter of my work, you’re welcome to enjoy a special 20% discount on your ticket.
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This year’s lineup of speakers offers deeply insightful perspectives, including:
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Katie Munday – Shares the experience of transgender and gender-diverse Autistic adults, focusing on feelings of (un)belonging.
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Tanya Adkin – Presents a thought-provoking talk based on Creating Autistic Suffering: Language, Survival, And The Work Of Change
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Priscilla Eyles – Explores how systems of inequity can pave a pathway to cult abuse.
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Ed Shearer – A powerful story of confronting systemic failures and driving neurodivergent-led change.
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Amanda Hind – Offers her unique insights on a yet-to-be-announced topic.
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Nikki Smith – Highlights the transformative power of early intervention and timely diagnosis.
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David Gray‑Hammond – Critically examines how psychiatric systems sustain power in the lives of Autistic people.
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Ready to join us?

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​Use code NEWSLETTER20 at checkout to apply your 20% discount when purchasing tickets here. ​
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We hope you’ll be part of this vital conversation and help pave the way toward more inclusive and equitable mental health support

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Recent Blogs from Autistic Realms
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​Going Deeper: Rest, Burnout, and Monotropic Flow​
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Autistic burnout doesn’t always need “switching off.” Sometimes we heal by going deeper into flow, into interests, into monotropic spiral time. Rest can look like immersion, not stillness.
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​Reclaiming Rest: Autistic Burnout, Monotropism, and Resistance​
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Free training resource slide deck in now added to blog.
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​Summer Rhythms for Autistic Parents & Carers​
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Exploring low‑demand parenting, managing energy & sensory needs for the whole family. FREE EBOOK & PRESENTATION. ​
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​Glimmers: Autistic Joy and Monotropism
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​Glimmers are small, powerful moments of Autistic joy that emerge when we’re deeply immersed in what matters to us. Discover how monotropism & flow create space for joy in an overwhelming world

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​Published work

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​Neurodiverse Connection published my article ‘Why PBS is harmful for Autistic and Neurodivergent young people‘ as part of their
​ Against ABA and PBS Campaign.
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Read more here and add your signature to support this important campaign.
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Blog for Neurodiverse Connection: Why PBS is Harmful for Autistic Young People

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New Companion website
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Discover More Realms

Autistic Realms is where I share grounded, neuro-affirming support for families, educators and allies to support Autistic people…

But there’s another thread woven through everything I do…

A slower, stranger, space for art, literature, poetry, philosophical unravellings, and deep neuroqueering ways of becoming…

Curious….?
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You’re warmly invited through the portal into More Realms.
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This is a space for those who long to wander deeper, into the wild edges of thought, where nature invites pause, neuroqueer ideas take root, and sensory worlds unfold.
A place to linger, to meander through tangled textures, and to drift in spiral time.
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Enter More Realms

​From Autistic Realms to More Realms: Exploring Other Ways of Being​
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Journey from Autistic Realms into More Realms—where neuro-affirming support meets creative and neuroqueer explorations of other ways of being……

​Ethodivergent Hearth Building: A Relational Neuroqueering Community Practice​
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Explore ethodivergent hearth building as a neuroqueer, relational practice of care, kinship, and more-than-human community with Autistic Realms & Stimpunks.
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​Mingling with the universe: Autistic Perception​
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​Mingling with the Universe” exploring Autistic meaning-making as sensory, felt, and more-than-human, where solitude becomes connection, and the world speaks in textures, rhythms, and resonance. It’s not about escaping, it’s about finding belonging otherwise.
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New Resources​
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The Neuro-Affirming Wheel of Life
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The Neuro-Affirming Wheel of Life is designed for neurodivergent & disabled people, this gentle tool helps you reflect on your energy, flow, sensory needs, and more. Honour your own rhythms and flow.
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This Wheel is not about fixing yourself or striving for symmetry. It’s about pausing, noticing what’s working, what’s hurting, and what needs more time and space.

It’s a chance to ask:

• What feels full?
• What feels stretched thin?
• What really matters to me right now?

You can colour it in, journal with it, or simply use it to guide conversations with a therapist, peer, or support worker. However you use it, this tool is here to meet you where you are — not where the world expects you to be.

You can download the FREE printable Wheel of Life template and an accompanying guided journal with prompts in my shop:
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FREE WHEEL OF LIFE

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Wheel of Life Journal

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Check out my other E-Books –
Over 20 PDFs to instantly download (mostly free)!

E-BOOKS

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Finally……. here is a Penguin Pebble for you all!
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​Penguin Pebbling is an Autistic love language. It is a way of showing you care by sharing a meme or a pretty stone to say “I’m thinking of you.” Inspired by penguins who gift pebbles to those they care about.
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Looking forward to sharing more blogs, resources, research and upcoming events soon!
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If you find this news letter valuable please do share and encourage people to sign up and visit Autistic Realms – pass on a Penguin Pebble!
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Best Wishes,
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Helen

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