The mainstream healthcare system fails our community by labelling neurodivergent+ people 'defective' and 'disordered'.  

NEUROMANCERS seek to provide an alternative. Instead, we fall in love with divergence. Our traits are neither 'curses' nor 'superpowers'. We are simply people surviving a society that oppresses and excludes us in the best ways we know how. 

NEUROMANCERS is here to support you - at whatever stage of the journey you are on - by providing autonomous, abolitionist, and accessible mental health care, by us and for us. 

Providing programs for us and by us is something humans have been organising for a long time. We honour those traditions and lineages.

Here are a few frameworks and projects we are inspired by: 

• Politicised Social Service by Shira Hassan 

• Black Panther Party Programs

• Disability Justice

• Psychiatric Abolition & Non-Carceral Care

• Total Liberation (Anarchism + Veganism)

• Peer Support & Lived Experience Led Organising 

Guided by the above, we were originally founded as a small, unincorporated organisation in 2021 by then-fifteen-year-old Aiyana Goodfellow. After years of incredible work, we re-launched in 2025 in our new and improved form. 

Neurodivergent is an umbrella terms that includes all those who divergence from the expectations of neuronormativity. 

Neuronormativity is a social construct that establishes the 'acceptable' ways to behave, think, and express emotion. This construct is incredibly limiting, dangerous, and ableist, placing specific notions on what is means to be human. Historically and today, this has meant neurodivergent+ people have experienced institutional and interpersonal violence for not conforming to these norms.

At NEUROMANCERS, we are neurodiversity-affirming, meaning we seek to empower, rather than 'fix' people. 

NEUROMANCERS work centres neurodivergent individuals, with particular emphasis on those who are also Black and/or LGBTQ+. 

We know that many people who are severely impacted by neuronormativity and ableism may not specifically identify as neurodivergent. Therefore, our term neurodivergent+ acknowledges these extended and adjacent groups.  

We support those self-identified as:

• neurodivergent

• mad

• mentally ill

• (intellectually) disabled

• chronically or terminally ill

Including those who have personal lived experience with:

• trauma

• addiction

• disordered eating

• sensory and social challenges

• psychosis and altered states

• plurality and disassociation

• mental health crisis

• psychiatric incarceration and survivorship 

• self-injury and suicidality. 

In other words, if your behaviour, emotional processing, cognition, and/or communication exists outside of social norms you are welcome in our space, with or without a clinical diagnosis. 

Our philosophy of NEUROMANCING encourages us to 'fall in love with divergence'. We do this through our practice of Peer Solidarity. 

Peer Solidarity is a term and concept that builds on the idea of peer support. Peer Solidarity holds a particular focus on combining community healing with political education.

We recognise that healing and growth is not a process one can experience alone. We are responsible for each other. Our work is anchored in methods of self-recovery and collective justice.  

The mainstream medical and psychological system fails to acknowledge systemic oppression as major contributors to mental health difficulties and lack of access to support. NEUROMANCERS builds this understanding into everything we do.

We are in solidarity with those denied the support they need.

We are in solidarity with those who have been failed by the system.

We are in solidarity with you.