Changelog: Updated and New on Stimpunks.org for Calendar Week 10, March 2023

Table of Contents

Translating Stimpunks.org
Judith Huemann
Even Cowboys Can Cry
It’s time to stop giving homework
Learn About Neurodiversity at School
Good Day by Holistic Think Tank
The ADHD Nervous System: An explanation of why we act the way we do.
New and Updated
New blog posts
New pages
Updated pages
Updated glossary entries

Translating Stimpunks.org

Our front page and some of our most popular posts are now translated into German and Spanish using the WPML plugin for WordPress. These are automatic, AI driven translations that volunteer translators will improve.

🌈♿️ Ayuda mutua y aprendizaje centrado en el ser humano para personas neurodivergentes y discapacitadas.

🌈♿️ Gegenseitige Hilfe und menschenzentriertes Lernen für neurodivergente und behinderte Menschen

Help us translate stimpunksStimpunk combines “stimming” + “punk” to evoke open and proud stimming, resistance to neurotypicalization, and the DIY culture of punk, disabled, and neurodivergent communities. Instead of hiding our stims, we... More.org into your language.

Judith Huemann

The disability rights movement lost one of its pioneers. Judith Heumann is now a disabledThe label "disabled" means so much to me. It means I have community. It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself... More ancestor. From Camp Jened to the 504 sit-in to serving as the first Special Advisor on International Disability Rights, Judy was a leader and a badass.

Watch CripSome people with disabilities call themselves “crips.” “Crip” used to be a mean word for disabled. It is short for “cripple.” But some disabled people call themselves “crips” on purpose.... More Camp to see her in action.

I wanna see a feisty group of disabled people around the world…if you don’t respect yourself and if you don’t demand what you believe in for yourself, you’re not gonna get it.
Judith Heumann

Even Cowboys Can Cry

Friend of Stimpunks Aubrey Hays just released their Tiny Desk entry for 2023: “Even Cowboys Can Cry”:

This song is for anyone who has had to brave a long and lonesome road. For those of us who have had to be “cowboys” at one time or another.

Aubrey got props on Tiny Desk Top Shelf last year for their entry, “Love Didn’t Hurt You”:

iLe: “Jeff Buckley vibe that takes you somewhere else. Like a caress.”

Bob Boilen: “I wanted to be on the porch.”

Love Didn’t Hurt You – Tiny Desk Contest Entry 2022:

We added “Even Cowboys Can Cry” to our Mission page.

🏩 Mission

It’s time to stop giving homework

Our friends and allies at Human Restoration Project released a popular video on homeworkAs a rule, the point of homework generally isn’t to learn, much less to derive real pleasure from learning. It’s something to be finished.The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get... More. NeurodivergentNeurodivergent, sometimes abbreviated as ND, means having a mind that functions in ways which diverge significantly from the dominant societal standards of “normal.”NEURODIVERSITY: SOME BASIC TERMS & DEFINITIONS Neurodivergent is quite... More and disabled people shared their experiences in the comments.

I don’t know if you’ve seen the comments on this video, but I explicitly recommended Stimpunks in the replies since SO MANY commenters are sharing their experiences of school as neurodivergent & disabled people.
It’s time to stop giving homework – YouTube

Learn About Neurodiversity at School

We updated our “Fix Injustice, Not Kids” page with a new video on the LEANS project (Learning About NeurodiversityNeurodiversity is the diversity of human minds, the infinite variation in neurocognitive functioning within our species.NEURODIVERSITY: SOME BASIC TERMS & DEFINITIONS Neurodiversity is a biological fact. It’s not a perspective, an approach, a... More at School) from Ferrous.

Good Day by Holistic Think Tank

Holistic Think Tank released a “documentary about shades of education around the world and the universal need to change the way of teaching towards a holisticSystems Thinking Is Not Indigenous Holistic ThinkingIndigenous holistic thinking is not systems thinking because many Indigenous peoples and communities do not separate their world or landscapes into “systems” in the... More education, immersed in humanistic valuesRemind yourself that shared values, rather than shared beliefs, are what matter when it comes to interacting with others, and that there is no replacement for doing the hard work... More.”

The video features friend of Stimpunks Antonio Buehler of Abrome.

The best way to convince people isn’t to argue with them. It’s just to create something else… Be a project that serves as an example of what’s possible.
Antonio Buehler in “Holistic Think Tank | Good Day”

Thus Abrome and thus Stimpunks.

The ADHD Nervous System: An explanation of why we act the way we do.

We expanded our popular ADHDADHD or what I prefer to call Kinetic Cognitive Style (KCS) is another good example. (Nick Walker coined this alternative term.) The name ADHD implies that Kinetics like me have... More/KCS guide with selections from “The ADHD Nervous System: An explanation of why we act the way we do.”