The Neurodiversity Hive

19/02/2026

It's the month of love, and we gotta lotta love for this birthday girl!

20/01/2026

Three years of NDH

A hive built by women, inspired by bees, each of us with a role, moving with purpose, creating something bigger together.

This all-female team has been doing the brave, thoughtful work of making honey: neurodiversity-affirming care, built cell by cell.

Grateful for every bee in this hive and the community that lets us do what we love.

Here’s to the buzz, the honey, and three sweet years.

12/01/2026

12/01/2026

How do you make autistic Barbie?

Like this!

05/01/2026

As we pause to reflect on 2025, we’re deeply proud of what our small, committed, neurodiversity-affirming team has held, supported, and created together.

Between us, this year looked like:

19/12/2025

As this year comes to a close, we just want to pause and say thank you.

Thank you for trusting our therapists with your stories, your children, your growth, your vulnerability, and your hopes. It is a privilege we never take lightly.

The Neurodiversity Hive team will be resting, recharging, and tending to our own nervous systems over the holiday period, so that we can return feeling grounded, regulated, and ready to show up fully for you.

🌿 We’ll be back on 5 January, with renewed energy, clear minds, and open hearts.

Until then, may your days be gentle, your moments spacious, and your holidays filled with whatever brings you comfort and joy.

Thank you for being part of our Hive, we’re so grateful for you 💛🐝

21/11/2025

Its the most wonderful time of the year!

The Hive Mind spent some time creating, eating and spending time together outside of the office.

04/11/2025

20/10/2025

Monotropism is a cognitive style characterised by a deep and focused attention on a narrow range of interests at one time, rather than spreading attention across many things (polytropism).

This can lead to intense focus, expertise, and "flow states" but may also make switching tasks, handling interruptions, and dealing with setbacks more difficult.

The theory of monotropism was developed to help explain key aspects of autism and is also associated with ADHD.

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16/10/2025

The double empathy problem is a theory that describes the communication and empathy breakdown that can occur between neurotypical and neurodivergent (particularly autistic) individuals due to different communication styles and social expectations. 

It proposes that misunderstandings are mutual, not a deficit on one side, meaning that both autistic people and non-autistic people can have difficulty understanding each other. 

The issue lies in the incompatibility of two different social and communication frameworks, not a one-sided lack of empathy.

15/10/2025

The "intense world theory of autism" proposes that the core of autism is a brain that hyper-perceives, hyper-attends, hyper-remembers, and hyper-emotionalises, making the world feel overwhelmingly intense.

A study measured information gain in the brains of autistic children in a resting state and found that they produced "42% more information" compared to a control group.

This theory suggests that the sensory and emotional overstimulation leads to strategies for coping, such as avoiding social interaction, focusing on patterns and routines, and seeking quiet spaces to reduce sensory input.

This neurological hyper-functioning is proposed to stem from hyper-reactive and hyper-plastic neural microcircuits, which can lead to a state of sensory overload that requires extensive self-regulation.

Does this description feel familiar or validating to you?

14/10/2025

Autism is not actually well understood. We're still figuring it out, and that's okay. But it does leave the door open to Tylenol type talk. So, rather than defend, argue, and fret, let's look at some theories that have been researched well.