Re-Storying Autism
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Autism support course for parents, carers and Autistic people

Stop trying to fix. Start understanding. Learn how to support an Autistic loved one (or yourself) with safety, dignity and connection.

Re-Storying Autism is a step-by-step online course from Autistic experts Helen Edgar and David Gray-Hammond. It replaces the deficit stories you were handed after a diagnosis with an Autistic-led framework you can use at home tomorrow: sensory needs, meltdowns and overload, burnout, trauma, identity, play and community.

  • 4½ hours of video
  • 63 step-by-step lessons
  • 350+ page workbook included free
  • Track your progress
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Does this sound familiar?

You have read the leaflets. The advice still doesn’t fit.

Most autism advice is written about Autistic people, not by them. It tells families to manage behaviour, push for “independence” and fix what looks like a problem, and it leaves everyone more exhausted, more disconnected and more worried.

Maybe you are a parent watching your child unravel after school. 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.

People come to this course asking:

  • Why does my child fall apart at home after holding it together all day?
  • Is it a meltdown, sensory overload, burnout or something else?
  • How do I support them without pushing them to “mask” and fit in?
  • What language should I use, and what do the labels really mean?
  • Where do I find Autistic voices I can actually trust?
What changes when you re-story autism

From correcting behaviour to building connection

Re-storying is not positive thinking. It is making sense of how a nervous system learned to survive, how environments shape distress, and how to rebuild the conditions in which Autistic people can live with dignity, agency and wellbeing.

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Understand before you intervene

See attention, communication and sensory experience from the inside, so “difficult” behaviour starts to make sense.

2

Respond to distress with safety

Recognise overload, burnout and trauma early, and know what actually helps instead of what usually makes it worse.

3

Support identity, not compliance

Use language and approaches that protect self-trust, wellbeing and belonging for the long term.

4

Learn from Autistic community

Draw on the collective wisdom of Autistic people, and connect your family to it.

“Autism is not something people grow out of. It is something people grow into.”
Re-Storying Autism workbook
What you will learn

7 modules, 63 lessons, one clear path

Each module combines video teaching with the matching workbook chapter, so you can watch, read and reflect at your own pace.

Understanding Autistic Experience

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.

  • See Autistic attention, communication and identity from the inside
  • Replace "how do we change them?" with "how do they experience the world?"
  • Understand why many "problems" are really mismatches between people and environments

Identity, Language and Disability Models

Explore identity-first language, neurodivergence as a socio-political identity, why functioning labels harm, and how the social model and neuronormativity shape everyday life.

  • Choose language that respects Autistic identity
  • Question functioning labels and diagnosis as gatekeepers
  • Understand low-demand approaches and why belonging comes before behaviour

Sensory and Emotional Landscapes

Meet the eight-sense world, including interoception and alexithymia, and learn why overload, stimming, co-regulation and safe retreat are regulation, not misbehaviour.

  • Recognise the eight senses and how each can show up differently
  • Read sensory overload as a nervous-system signal, not defiance
  • Build a sensory-competent home and daily life

Autistic Play and Ways of Learning

Discover why Autistic play looks different, why repetition is meaningful, and how interest-led, low-pressure learning supports flow, connection and emotional safety.

  • Value Autistic play, repetition and interests
  • Take the co-regulating adult role with confidence
  • Redefine what success looks like

Burnout, Overload and Connection

Understand Autistic burnout as an ecosystemic crisis of connection: how it shows up, how it differs from tiredness, how AuDHD changes it, and how reconnection heals.

  • Spot burnout early, including atypical presentations
  • Understand the three forms of loss
  • Support recovery through reconnection, not pressure

Trauma, Safety and the Emotional Environment

See how cumulative sensory, relational and systemic trauma shapes the nervous system, and how boundaries, predictability and a trauma-informed emotional environment rebuild safety.

  • Understand trauma as an ecosystemic experience
  • See boundaries as protective, not punitive
  • Build safety as the foundation of everything

Learning From Autistic Community

Learn from Autistic culture, collective knowledge and relational ethics, and imagine a future of co-creation, dignity and neurodivergent thriving.

  • Value Autistic community as a living archive of knowledge
  • Learn relational ethics from Autistic spaces
  • Connect families to community, and to a future of belonging
See every lesson in the course
An interactive course, not a stack of videos

Learn step by step and see your progress

  1. Watch or read

    Every lesson has the video and the full workbook text. Use either, or both.

  2. Reflect

    Answer the workbook’s reflection questions in the page. Your answers are saved privately.

  3. Mark it complete

    Tick off lessons when you’re ready. Pick up exactly where you left off, including inside videos.

  4. Keep and revisit

    Download your reflections, earn a certificate of completion, and return whenever you need.

This course is for you if
  • You are a parent, carer or family member of an Autistic child, teenager or adult
  • You are Autistic, diagnosed, self-identified or still wondering
  • You want language for your experience that isn’t medicalised or moralised
  • You are exhausted by pressure to manage, optimise or “fix”
  • You want space to reflect without being corrected

“You don’t need to be confident, healed, or stable. You only need curiosity and enough safety to reflect.”

It is not for
  • Anyone looking to change, cure or normalise an Autistic person
  • Behavioural compliance or “life skills” training
  • A quick autism explainer for a one-off session

“This work starts from the assumption of Autistic dignity.”

For parents and carersFor Autistic adults
Built on Autistic-led research and lived experience

The Six-Point Framework

The framework understands Autistic wellbeing as emerging when we attend to:

How Autistic experience is understood and framed

The sensory and emotional landscape of the bodymind

Identity, masking, and the cost of survival

Environment, predictability, and relational safety

Power, systems, and institutional harm

Connection, meaning, and Autistic ways of becoming

Rather than isolating “the individual” as the problem, the framework recognises that distress emerges between people, environments and systems.

Praise for Re-Storying Autism

What leading voices are saying

“Re-Storying Autism offers a rare blend of autistic-led theory, science, lived experience, and practical application that reshapes how families understand support.”
KM
Kelly Mahler, OTD
Author of The Interoception Curriculum
“…the definitive autistic Bible.”
DD
Dr Dawn Prince-Hughes
Co-Director, Cultural Autism Studies at Yale
“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.”
RB
Ryan Boren
Stimpunks
Created by Autistic people

Meet your teachers

Helen and David are Autistic, ADHD and multiply neurodivergent adults, and also parents, carers and professionals. 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

Helen Edgar

Founder, Autistic Realms

David Gray-Hammond

Founder, NeuroHub Community
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Launch price

Launch price

Pay once

£69.99£79.99

£69.99 if you join our mailing list (until 1 April 2027), otherwise £79.99.

  • Instant, lifetime access
  • 7 modules plus welcome video
  • 63 lessons with workbook text
  • Free 350+ page workbook PDF
  • Progress tracking and certificate
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Pay monthly

£12.99a month, minimum 6 months

£77.94 over the minimum term, then cancel any time. Access lasts while you subscribe.

  • Everything in the course
  • Instant access from the first payment
  • No deadlines, no pressure
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Questions

Frequently asked questions

Who is the Re-Storying Autism course for?

It is for parents, carers and family members who want to support an Autistic loved one in a way that works with them, and for Autistic people (including late-identified and self-identified adults) who want language and understanding for their own experience. It starts from Autistic dignity. It is not for anyone looking to change, cure or normalise an Autistic person.

What will I get when I join?

Instant access to 7 modules and a welcome video: 63 step-by-step lessons, about 4½ hours of video, the full workbook text for every lesson, interactive reflection prompts, progress tracking, and the complete 350+ page workbook as a free PDF download.

How much does the course cost?

The course is £79.99. Until 1 April 2027 it is £69.99 if you choose to hear from us by email about similar courses and resources (optional, ticked at checkout). You can also pay £12.99 a month, with a minimum of 6 months (£77.94); after that you can cancel any time.

Can I get a refund?

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.

How does paying monthly work?

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.

How does progress tracking work?

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 download your notes whenever you like. Only you can read your reflections.

Do I need an account?

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.

Do I have to watch the modules in order?

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.

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