Moving from fixing towards understanding. For Autistic people, for families and carers, and for the educators, therapists and practitioners who support them.
Re-Storying Autism is a step-by-step online course created by Autistic co-authors, parents and educators Helen Edgar and David Gray-Hammond. It follows the course book, Re-Storying Autism: A Framework For Autistic People, Carers and Supporting Practitioners, and offers a gentler story than the deficit-based one many people are handed after diagnosis: an Autistic-led framework you can bring into everyday life, the classroom or your practice, at your own pace. It covers sensory needs, meltdowns and overload, burnout, trauma, identity, play and community.
The Ultimate Course Bundle
The full video course, the Course Book and Companion Workbook, plus Helen Edgar’s Neuro-Affirming Glossary e-book and 222-card deck.
Launch price · £49.99 when you join our mailing list, otherwise £99.99
Or £19.99 a month (minimum 6 months). Instant access, no deadlines.
Just the course? £39.99 when you join our mailing list (otherwise £79.99), or £12.99 a month. See all prices.
Most autism advice is written about Autistic people, not by them. Much of it is rooted in behaviourist ideas: managing behaviour, pushing for “independence”, correcting what looks like a problem. Many families tell us this leaves everyone more exhausted, disconnected and worried. You are not alone in noticing this.
Maybe you are a parent noticing your child arrives home from school with nothing left. A carer who senses that the usual strategies are making things worse. Or an Autistic adult, newly identified, wondering why nobody explained any of this years ago.
Re-storying is not about positive thinking. It is about gently making sense of how a nervous system learned to survive, how environments shape distress, and how we can build conditions where Autistic people live with dignity, agency and wellbeing.
See attention, communication and sensory experience from the inside, so “difficult” behaviour starts to make sense.
Recognise overload, burnout and trauma early, and know what actually helps instead of what usually makes it worse.
Use language and approaches that protect self-trust, wellbeing and belonging for the long term.
Draw on the collective wisdom of Autistic people, and connect your family to it.
“When we change the story, we change what becomes possible.”Helen Edgar and David Gray-Hammond, Re-Storying Autism
Each module combines video teaching with the matching chapter of the course book, broken into short lessons that most people read in 1 to 3 minutes. Pause a video and come back to it whenever you like: it picks up where you stopped.
Begin with a shift in worldview: how monotropism, the double empathy problem, the ever-changing Autistic self, lilipadding and Autistic culture explain what is often mistaken for difficulty. Drawing on monotropism (Murray et al., 2005) and the double empathy problem (Milton, 2012).
Explore identity-first language, neurodivergence as a socio-political identity, why functioning labels harm, and how the social model and neuronormativity shape everyday life.
Meet the eight-sense world, including interoception and alexithymia, and learn why overload, stimming, co-regulation and safe retreat are regulation, not misbehaviour.
Discover why Autistic play looks different, why repetition is meaningful, and how interest-led, low-pressure learning supports flow, connection and emotional safety.
Understand Autistic burnout (Raymaker et al., 2020) as an ecosystemic crisis of connection: how it shows up, how it differs from tiredness, how AuDHD changes it, and how reconnection heals.
See how cumulative sensory, relational and systemic trauma shapes the nervous system, and how boundaries, predictability and a trauma-informed emotional environment rebuild safety.
Learn from Autistic culture, collective knowledge and relational ethics, and imagine a future of co-creation, dignity and neurodivergent thriving.
Every lesson has the video and the full course book text. Use either, or both.
Answer the reflective questions right on the lesson page. Your answers and notes save privately, and you can download them any time.
Tick off lessons when you’re ready. Pick up exactly where you left off, including inside videos.
Download your reflections, earn a certificate of completion, and return whenever you need.
“To re-story autism is to meet a person where they are, not where we expected them to be.”Helen Edgar and David Gray-Hammond, Re-Storying Autism
“Autistic people do not thrive through pressure. They thrive through safety.”Helen Edgar and David Gray-Hammond, Re-Storying Autism
The framework understands Autistic wellbeing as emerging when we attend to:
Rather than isolating “the individual” as the problem, the framework recognises that distress emerges between people, environments and systems.
The first edition was a #1 Amazon bestseller, rated 4.7 out of 5
“Re-Storying Autism offers a rare blend of Autistic-led theory, science, lived experience, and practical application that reshapes how families understand support. I especially appreciate how it centers sensory experience, interoception, burnout, identity, and belonging as foundational, not secondary. The reflection questions woven throughout consistently guide curiosity and thoughtful growth. This is the kind of resource that helps people build environments where Autistic people can live with more felt safety, dignity, and self-trust. Highly recommend.”
“Re-framing is the first step toward a new paradigm. ‘Re-Storying Autism’ invites us to move beyond deficit-based narratives and into the neurodiversity paradigm, where Autistic ways of being are understood as valid, meaningful, and human. When we re-story, we shift from fixing people to questioning systems, and from performance to authenticity. At Stimpunks, we see authenticity as our purest freedom: something to be respected, protected, and made possible through environments that allow people to be fully themselves. ‘Re-Storying Autism’ respects, protects, and makes possible our freedom to be authentically ourselves. Highly recommended.”
Helen and David are Autistic, ADHD and multiply neurodivergent adults, and also parents, carers and professionals. Helen is a late-identified Autistic and ADHD parent and a former SEND Early Years and Primary teacher of over 20 years. David is an award-winning neurodiversity professional, named on the Diversity Power List for 2025/26. They created the framework from years of community work, consultancy, research and lived experience, because Autistic people were never failing for lack of skills. The stories about them erased context, power and humanity.
Read more about Helen and David
Launch price
£39.99 if you join our mailing list (for our first 25 customers), otherwise £79.99.
£77.94 over the minimum term, then cancel any time. Access lasts while you subscribe.
The course and both books, plus Helen Edgar’s Neuro-Affirming Glossary e-book and card deck.
Instant-access digital product: by buying you agree access starts immediately and you lose your 14-day right to cancel. Details
It is for Autistic people (including late-identified and self-identified adults) who want language and understanding for their own experience; for parents, carers and family members who want to support an Autistic loved one in a way that works with them; and for practitioners, such as teachers, SENCOs, therapists, OTs and social prescribers, who support Autistic people in their work. It follows our course book, Re-Storying Autism: A Framework For Autistic People, Carers and Supporting Practitioners. It is not for anyone looking to change, cure or normalise an Autistic person.
Instant access to 7 modules and a welcome video, broken into short, bite-size lessons (most take 1 to 3 minutes to read), about 4½ hours of video you can pause and come back to, the full workbook text for every lesson, interactive reflection prompts, progress tracking, and the 2027 course book and Companion Workbook as free PDF downloads.
The course is £79.99. For our first 25 customers it is £39.99 if you choose to hear from us by email about similar courses and resources (optional: a box you can choose to tick at checkout). The £39.99 launch offer for our first 25 customers has sold out. You can also pay £12.99 a month, with a minimum of 6 months (£77.94); after that you can cancel any time. The Ultimate Course Bundle adds Helen Edgar’s Neuro-Affirming Glossary e-book and card deck: £99.99 (£49.99 for the remaining launch places, with the mailing-list box), or £19.99 a month for at least 6 months.
Because the course is an instant-access digital product, you are asked at checkout to agree that access starts straight away and that you lose your usual 14-day right to cancel once it does. If the course is faulty or not as described, your statutory rights are not affected, so please contact us. Read the full details on our refunds and cancellation page.
You pay £12.99 a month and get access straight away. It is a subscription with a minimum term of 6 months (£77.94). After the minimum term you can cancel any time, and your access ends when the period you have paid for ends. If you would rather own the course for life, pay once instead.
Mark lessons complete as you go and the course shows your progress for each module and overall, remembers the last lesson you opened, and resumes videos where you stopped. There are no deadlines, streaks or scores. Your progress, reflections and notes are saved privately to your account, so they follow you across your phone, tablet and computer, and you can save and download all your notes and reflection answers from the Reflections page whenever you like. Only you can read your reflections.
Yes. When you buy, we email you a link to choose a password, and you log in with your email and password. If you forget it, use “Forgotten your password?” on the login page.
No. Start wherever feels most useful. The course is designed so that you can follow it step by step from the beginning, or dip into the lessons that matter most right now, and come back to the others when you are ready.
Start with these plain-English guides from the course material.
Autistic people flourish when there is safety, agency, sensory consideration and belonging. You’re warmly invited to join us.
From the Neuro-Affirming Glossary of Key Words and Terms (2026 Edition) by Helen Edgar, Autistic Realms.
Read all 222 words free on Helen’s glossary page at autisticrealms.com. Thank you to Helen for writing them.