Recent Blog Posts You Dont Want To Miss

Neurodiversity, ecosystems, and mental health

Dear friends, thinkers, wanderers, and those living between lilypads,

Life isn’t a straight line. It meanders, it breathes, it surprises us with deeper questions than we thought we had. In the past couple of weeks at DGH ND Consultancy, we’ve been walking these questions aloud; naming textures of experience, unsettling tired myths, and offering frameworks that feel alive rather than hollow.

Here’s what’s new, and why each piece matters:

An Inquiry That Matters: Autism and Psychosis: What Does the Research Really Say?

We unpack the scientific contours and the muddy myths around autism and psychosis, refusing sensationalism and instead inviting clarity.

Ecosystems of Burnout: AUDHD, Burnout & Psychosis: Mapping the Interwoven Terrain

This piece isn’t another checklist for productivity. It’s a terrain map for lived complexity; where exhaustion, sensory overwhelm, mismatch, and identity intersect.

Toward Better Care: A Statement on Autism & CAMHS Responses

A compassionate but unsparing look at current child and adolescent mental health services, where they fall short and what dignity-filled care might begin to look like.

History as Counterweight: The History of Autism: Beyond Myths & Misremembered Origins

Historical understanding is liberatory. This article traces how ideas about autism formed and why that matters for justice today.

Critical Appraisal of Claims: Leucovorin Isn’t a “Breakthrough Treatment for Autism”

We take apart the hype and look at evidence, ethics, and hope without selling miracle cures. Science is a tool, never advertising.

Trauma, Suffering & Creation Stories: Creating Autistic Suffering; A Cultural and Structural Analysis

This piece examines how suffering gets authored—not as individual failing, but as an ecological product of power and mismatch.

Toward an Integrative Lens: An Ecosystemic Model of Distress, Power & Mismatch

A conceptual frame to replace tired binaries like “illness vs strength.” Distress becomes visible as relational and systemic—not isolated.

A Practical Companion: An Autistic Guide to Healthcare

For anyone who’s ever felt lost in appointments, forms, systems that don’t speak human; this is heartfelt, grounded, and usable.

Why this matters

These pieces aren’t just articles to skim. They’re invitations; to rethink assumptions, to feel complexity without collapse, to treat knowledge as connective tissue between experience and justice. There’s no simple formula for thriving, but there are ways of speaking that honour reality and open space for richer meaning.

Thank you for being in this conversation. If these writings resonate, consider sharing them with someone who’s also been searching for language that feels true. Let’s build bridges instead of boxes.

Warmly,

David Gray-Hammond

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