Autistic Mental Health Is A Rights Issue
A collection of blogs and more to help you understand Autistic mental health better
Autistic mental health has been talked about, theorised over, and pathologised for decades. What it hasn’t been, nearly enough, is understood on our terms, in our language, by us.
Over the past couple of months, we’ve been building a body of writing at NeuroHub that attempts to do exactly that. Below you’ll find four articles that approach Autistic mental health from the inside out, as a lived reality shaped by systems, environments, and a world that was not designed with us in mind.
We’ve also got two unmissable events coming up, one free, one the biggest thing we do all year, and we’d love to see you at both.
New from the NeuroHub Blog
The Essential Guide to Autistic Mental Health
If you’re looking for somewhere to start, whether you’re Autistic yourself, supporting an Autistic person, or working in a professional context, this is it. This piece offers a grounded, accessible introduction to Autistic mental health that centres the world we actually live in, rather than a clinical abstraction of it.
Autism and Mental Health: The System Wasn’t Built for Us
The numbers are stark. Autistic people experience mental health difficulties at significantly higher rates than the general population, yet routinely find themselves excluded from, failed by, or actively harmed by the very services that are supposed to help. This article examines the systemic reasons why; and what genuinely supportive, Autistic-informed mental health provision could look like.
Autism, Complex Mental Health, and the Right to Be Fully Human
Complex, co-occurring mental health experiences aren’t the exception for Autistic people; they’re the rule. So why does so much of the support on offer fail to account for that complexity? This piece explores what it means to approach Autistic mental health holistically, and argues that anything less is a denial of our full humanity.
Lilipadding, Monotropic Split, and Autistic Burnout
Co-authored with Tanya Adkin
This is one of our longest and most practical pieces to date; a 12-minute read that’s worth every minute. If you’ve ever wondered why Autistic and monotropic people are so vulnerable to burnout, or felt like you were running on empty no matter how hard you tried to manage your capacity, the frameworks of monotropic split and lilipadding offer something genuinely useful; not a productivity hack, but a path toward sustainable living that actually works with how our minds operate.
FREE EVENT — Autistic Stim & Glim Online Party
Thursday 18th June 2026 · 4pm BST · Online · Free
Autistic Pride Day is coming, and we’re celebrating it the way it deserves to be celebrated, with our NeuroKin, stimming freely, and sharing the glimmers that make life worth living.
The Stim & Glim Online Party is a free, joyful, low-pressure online gathering for Autistic people. Come as you are. Bring your stims. Share your glimmers. Be around people who just get it.
This is a space made by and for Autistic people; no masking required, no performance expected. This event is 100% free to all members of our online community, or you can access it for £10. I recommend joining the community and getting the free ticket!
2026 Autistic Mental Health Conference
14–16 August 2026 · Hybrid (Online + In-Person, Brighton) · Tickets from £50
In partnership with Autistic Inclusive Meets
This year’s conference is built around a theme that sits at the heart of everything we do at NeuroHub: Ecosystemic Causes of Mental Health Issues, because Autistic mental health cannot be understood in isolation from the environments, systems, and structures that shape our lives.
Across three full days (10am–6pm BST), you’ll hear from a rich line-up of neurodivergent-led voices: lived experience speakers, researchers, and practitioners who approach Autistic mental health from the inside. The programme includes 40-minute talks, lightning sessions, and pre-recorded contributions, all recorded and made available to ticket holders after the event.
Online access is available for all three days. Saturday 15th August also offers an optional in-person day in Coldean, Brighton & Hove, with stalls, food, and community alongside the live sessions.
NeuroHub Community members receive a 33% discount on all ticket prices. Contact our admin team for your discount code.
For The Professionals: Upcoming Training & CPD
We believe Autistic voices should lead the conversation about Autistic lives. Everything we produce at NeuroHub, our writing, our events, our community, exists to make that possible.
We are excited to let you know that our six-point framework for Supporting Autistic People is releasing as a course and toolkit, pre-orders and access to the live webinar can be purchased now for 50% off, meaning it costs just £9.99 for access to the full offering.
Thats:
The six-point framework toolkit
Live webinar
Circles of control toolkit
Sustainable advocacy toolkit
All available for £9.99 if you pre-order it now.
David & the NeuroHub Team