Embracing Our Autistic Selves
Starting This Friday
There is a question I keep returning to when I think about Autistic identity; not “what is autism”, but what does it mean to actually live inside it, on your own terms, without having to justify yourself to anyone?
That question is the whole reason I built Embracing Our Autistic Selves.
It starts this Friday, 1st May, at 6pm UK time, and runs for five weekly sessions on Zoom through to 29th May followed by a live Q+A session.
This is not a course that will tell you what autism is. You already know what autism is, you live it. This course is part of the Mindfully Divergent program over at NeuroHub.
What it will do is give you space. Space to explore how your relationship with your Autistic identity has been shaped; by diagnosis, by other people’s language, by systems that were never designed with you in mind. Space to sit with the complexity of that without being pushed toward resolution or positivity. Space to be in a room with other Autistic people who are also figuring this out.
We will move through three areas across the five sessions:
How we “know” autism: the histories, frameworks, and narratives that have defined it, and what it means that those definitions were largely written by people who weren’t Autistic.
Embodying autism: not just as an idea, but as something carried in the body. Sensory worlds, energy, fatigue, burnout, and what the bodymind knows that the mind alone doesn’t always catch.
The Autistic ecosystem: community, connection, and what it looks like to build a life that actually fits you, rather than one you’ve had to fold yourself into.
Each session is discussion-based and runs approximately 90 minutes. There are no lectures. There are no right answers. There is guided mindfulness practice adapted for neurodivergent ways of being, which means movement is welcome, eyes open is always an option, and “just relax” will never be said.
There are two ways to join:
If you’re already a paid member of the NeuroHub Community, this course is included in your membership. Log in at connect.neurohubcommunity.org and you’ll find the Zoom link waiting for you. Sign up for the community at the button below.
If you’re not yet a member, you can purchase the course directly from the website at the button below for £50/$68. That gets you access to all five live sessions, plus the Q+A.
The first session is this Friday, May 1st, at 6pm UK time. I’d love for you to be part of it.
David
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