Neuroqueer identities and mental health

Neuroqueer individuals face significant challenges to their mental health. This is due to society's mistreatment of both neurodivergent and LGBTQ+ communities.

Neuroqueer: Authentic embodiment of mental health

In order to authentically embody our entire neurocognition, we first have to learn to co-exist with all of our experiences. This requires a ...

Intersex, Neuroqueer and Transmasculine Mental Health

These identities are not mental illnesses, but individuals within these categories often face specific mental health challenges due to societal ...

What can we learn from 'neuroqueer' theory? - QueerAF

It's a framework that intersects the fields of neurodiversity and queer theory. For many, it's a way of engaging in the 'queering' of one's own neurocognitive ...

Neuroqueer: Gender Identity and Autistic Embodiment

[…] Neuroqueer Theory and the ways that it can be applied to people's lives. We have considered gender identity, depathologising psychiatric ...

ADHD and Queerness: Living in the Neuroqueer Intersection

Neuroqueer is a relatively new term used to describe individuals who are neurodivergent and queer, and to address a truth that many ADDitude readers already ...

Neuroqueer and Proud: Claiming Identity and Community Despite ...

Neuroqueer and Proud:Claiming Identity and Community Despite and Through Theories of Theory of Mind In the mid 1980's, researchers first ...

[PODCAST] Episode 20: Embracing Neuroqueer Identity

The Divergent Conversations Podcast is hosted by Patrick Casale and Dr. Megan Anna Neff, two AuDHD mental health professionals and entrepreneurs, as well as ...

The positive impact of identity-affirming mental health treatment for ...

Additionally, clients who identified as neurodivergent but did not report an affirming medical diagnosis reported significantly worse mental ...

ADHD, autism and LGBTQ+ identities - the neuroqueer experience

Mental health professionals need to be equipped to understand and meet the specific needs of neurodivergent queer individuals. This includes ...

Living Out of Bounds: An Exploration of My Neuroqueered Autigender

... mental health, neurodivergence, or family issues” (BBC, 2024). The idea that gender and neuro divergence are inherently distressing, or identities with ...

Neuroqueer Inclusive Counseling, PLLC

... identities. I can provide a superbill for you to submit to your insurance ... Unlike therapy, which often addresses emotional or mental health concerns ...

Episode 20: Embracing Neuroqueer Identity - Apple Podcasts

Episode 20: Embracing Neuroqueer Identity: Queerness Explored Through the Lens of Autism and ADHD ... Statistically, 70% of Autistic individuals ...

Neuroqueering Childhood Cultures. by Aneesh Barai - Medium

Collectively, this world presents its audience with the possibility of the neuroqueer, a space where identities are not policed and suppressed, ...

NeuroQueer ADHD/Austism Coaching - QueerCME

As mentioned earlier, the intersection of ADHD, Autism, and LGBTQ identities often results in overlapping health concerns, including diminished ...

Experiences at the Intersection of Transgender and Neurodivergent ...

Existent medico-psychiatric literature has been found to describe neurodivergence and transgender identities as “co-morbidities” and hypothesizes ...

The kaleidoscopic value of neuroqueer knowledges - The Polyphony

... mental illnesses, and any experience that deviates from neuro-norms. ... identities, operating in a rhizomatic (non-linear, unpredictable) manner.

The positive impact of identity-affirming mental health treatment for ...

Medically diagnosed neurodivergent individuals report a high rate of co-occurring psychiatric disorders, such as depression, anxiety, conduct ...

ADHD and Queerness: Living In the Neuroqueer Intersection

Neuroqueer is a relatively new term used to describe individuals who are neurodivergent and queer, and to address a truth that many ADDitude ...

Neuroqueer: ADHD and Queerness - Beyond Clinics

Their identities are continuously used as pawns in social ... Mental Health Challenges for Neuroqueer Individuals. It will come as ...