Speaking.

Sam Alameh speaks to audiences of neurodivergent adults, clinicians, educators, employers, and event organisers who want a different vocabulary for what late-diagnosis autism actually is, what it costs, and how the systems around it could be built differently.

The talks are direct, structured, and personal. Not inspiration narratives. Honest documentation. Audiences leave with a framework, not just a feeling.

What he speaks on

These are starting points. Each engagement is tailored to the audience and the venue, in conversation with the host before the date is locked in.

• Late diagnosis and identity. What it is to live for fifty-plus years inside a system nobody documented for you, and what changes when the documentation finally arrives.
• Neurodivergent self-documentation. The ODIM framework (Orientation, Documentation, Integration, Maintenance) and how late-diagnosed adults can write their own Personal Operating Document.
• The Manual Method. The methodology underneath the books, applied to a specific life. Why standard self-help fails this population, and what works instead.
• Workplace neurodiversity. Not as a policy or a diversity initiative. As architectural compatibility. Why one in five of your workforce is operating in conditions designed for someone else, and what it costs the organisation to keep ignoring it.
• Field notes from the dark. A reading-and-discussion format drawn from Small Lights for Long Nights. Aphorisms read aloud, with commentary, as a way to give an audience the experience of the book in fifty minutes.

Available formats

Keynote (15 to 30 minutes). Conference panel. Workshop (half-day). Reading and Q&A. Podcast or interview. Corporate training session.

How to enquire

Email [email protected] with the subject line Speaking enquiry. Include the event name, audience, date, location, format, and what you are hoping the audience walks away with. Sam reads everything and replies personally.

For booking and rights enquiries on the books separately, see the contact page.

Bio (short, for programme copy)

Sam Alameh is the author of The Manual That Never Came and the creator of the ODIM framework for neurodivergent self-documentation. A late-diagnosed autistic and ADHD adult, a coach with twenty years of experience, and the founder of The Manual Method. Lebanese-Australian, based in Melbourne.

Bio (medium, for press kits)

Sam Alameh is a writer and coach based in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of four published books: The Coin You Can't Flip (a field guide for parents, teachers, and partners on the most common misreadings of autism), The Manual That Never Came and Man. You. Well. (the first two volumes of The Manual Series, with further volumes in progress), and Small Lights for Long Nights (Journal One in an open-ended journal series, with the next volume in progress). He is the creator of The Manual Method, a coaching practice for late-diagnosed adults, and the ODIM framework that underpins it. Diagnosed with autism and ADHD in his early fifties, after decades of building workarounds nobody called workarounds, he writes from inside the experience the books describe.

Sample lines

For hosts and event organisers to draw from.

• Not broken. Undocumented.
• The manual that should have come with this brain did not. So I wrote it.
• Document, do not fix.
• Diagnosis is a threshold. Documentation is the work that comes after.
• Most self-help assumes a neurotypical baseline. This assumes nothing except that you deserve accurate information about your own system.