By Helen Edgar, Autistic Realms
At the heart of everything I do is a belief that lived experience and Autistic lives matter.
What if support for Autistic children began with listening to Autistic people?
That was the the question I had in mind when I first created Autistic Realms in 2022. I wanted it to be a space that I wish had existed many years ago when I was first trying to understand and support my own children, myself and the families I worked with as a teacher.
As an Autistic parent and someone who’s lived through cycles of burnout and the barriers that come with being misunderstood, I wanted to build a space that speaks from within the experience. A space that affirms our way of being and helps parents, carers, professionals, and young Autistic people themselves feel less alone.
What Is Autistic Realms? A Practical, Neuro-Affirming Support Hub
Autistic Realms is where I share grounded, neuro-affirming support for families, educators, and allies to support Autistic people, especially those facing barriers to education, burnout and systemic misattunement.
It’s mainly a family-focused space rooted in lived experience, academic research, community wisdom, and the need for real support that respects Autistic minds and bodies.
Topics I regularly explore:
- Monotropism, deep focus, and flow
- Autistic burnout
- Supporting children who are experiencing barriers to education
- Sensory processing and interoception differences
- Autistic communication, play, masking, and identity
- Neuro-affirming reading lists and community signposting resources
Explore My E‑Books
Over the past few years, I’ve created a growing library of over 20 practical, neuro-affirming eBooks and 100s of infographics, mostly focused on supporting Autistic young people and their families.
Many are completely free to download, covering topics such as sensory processing and managing transitions, low-demand parenting, support for executive functioning difficulties, and finding out about the theory of monotropism.
Browse the full eBook collection here
These guides are ideal for sharing with schools, therapists, and support networks—or simply for finding your own sense of understanding and validation.
Step Through the Portal Into More Realms
There’s also another thread woven through everything I do and love….
A slower, stranger space for art, literature, poetry, philosophical unravellings, and deep neuroqueering ways of becoming.
Which is why I have now created More Realms, a companion site for creative flow, theoretical and philosophical exploration, and the more sensory relational side of neurodivergence.
More Realms is where I draw on my background and love of Literature and Art alongside lived experience and neuroqueer ways of sense-making, to explore ideas through poetry, story, image, and more-than-human connection. Rooted in neuroqueering, posthuman thought, and ethodivergent sensory relationality, this space will host reflective writing, collaborative projects, and community-rooted explorations of art, literature, and alternative ways of becoming.
It’s a space to spiral, stretch, and reimagine, where words tangle with moss and metaphor, and where Autistic and disabled creativity is not marginal, but central.
I am hoping that More Realms will help me keep Autistic Realms clear and accessible for those seeking practical support, while also honouring my own creative process and flow.
More Realms is for you if you’re curious about:
- Neuroqueering time
- Mad studies
- Posthumanist ideas
- Deleuzean inspired philosophy
- Poetics, liminality, and more-than-human belonging
- Creative storytelling from the margins
- Nature, rhythm, and spiralling attention
More Realms is a space of becoming, for those who long to wander deeper—into the wild edges of thought, where nature invites pause, neuroqueer ideas take root, and sensory worlds unfold.
A place to linger.
To meander through tangled textures.
To drift in spiral time.
To create our own maps.
Curious?
You’re warmly invited through the portal.