Autistic Identity With NeuroHub

What does autism feel like? It sounds like a simple question. It isn’t. In this episode of Autistic Identity with NeuroHub, David sits with a puzzle that has followed him for years: whether autism has a distinct “feel” at all, and what it means to try to describe an inner world using a language that was never designed for Autistic experience. Drawing on ideas around the double empathy problem, lin...

Who gets to tell the story of autism? For many of us, our earliest understandings of autism came from professionals, reports, and systems that framed Autistic lives through deficit, risk, and correction. Long before we encountered Autistic voices, we were often handed stories about what autism is ; and what it supposedly means for a person’s future. In this episode of Autistic Identity with NeuroH...

We usually meet autism through other people’s stories. Through diagnostic language. Through books, posts, memes, and threads. Through words that try to explain us before we’ve had a chance to explain ourselves. In this episode, David explores autistic identity as something we don’t simply discover, but slowly write. An identity shaped by lived experience. * By sensation. * By memory. * By relation...

This episode explores Autistic identity not as a fixed label, but as something living, responsive, and shaped over time. Rather than treating “realising you’re Autistic” as the end of a journey, this conversation sits with what happens next; how identity shifts as our environments change, as safety grows or disappears, as burnout, recovery, community, ageing, and connection reshape how we relate t...

This episode of Autistic Identity With NeuroHub is an invitation to slow down and sit with Autistic identity as something lived, negotiated, and continually re-formed; not a static label or a checklist of traits. We explore how Autistic identity emerges through relationship, memory, masking, unmasking, and the stories we’re told about who we are allowed to be. Rather than treating identity as some...

What is the history of autism? How does history shape our identity? In this first podcast of Autistic Identity With NeuroHub, David Gray-Hammond explores the long history of autism, which has come to shape how Autistic identity is formed in contemporary society. Future episodes will be a mix of short, informational offerings, alongside episodes that are longer, with deeper discussion. To find out...