Our website is a living document that is always changing and growing.

Here are some changes we made to the website in October.

Week 40

• Added “The SHOCKING Truth About Disability Benefits (They Don’t Want You To Know!) – YouTube” to “⛑ Mutual Aid: Real Help Against the Onslaught”.
• Published new glossary page “Administrative Burden”.
• Migrated our newsletter to Givebutter.
• Added “WARMTH Framework – Barriers to Education” to “Alternatives to ABA”.
• Added several new quotes to “Neuroaffirming”.
• Added “Kae Tempest – I Stand On The Line (Visualiser) – YouTube” to “Behold the Spectrum”.
• Added “We refuse reductionism in any direction.” to our manifesto.

Week 41

• Added quotes from “The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow – YouTube” to our “Enshittification” glossary page.
• Added “Dead Pioneers – My Spirit Animal Ate Your Spirit Animal (Official Music Video) – YouTube” to our “Respectability Politics” glossary page.
• Updated “Bodymind Break” and “Bodymind Affirmation” with added writing and layout updates.

Week 42

• Added quotes from “Autism, it’s Labels and the Language of Pathologising Rhetoric – The Autistic Advocate” to our “Labels” glossary page.
• Added the donor badge image files to our “First-time Donor Journey” email on Givebutter.
• Added quotes to “Rules of Thumb for Human Systems”.
• Added Betsy’s new art to “Shared Drives > Media Library > Art”.
• Added the 3 accessibility related pieces to the front page.
• Debugged small font size on stimpunks.org. Caused by an update to an old plugin we don’t really use anymore. Deactivated the plugin.
• Added quotes from “The Problem with “Invented Labels” – David Gray-Hammond” and “Inclusion Needs Recognition, Not Erasure: A Neurodiversity-Affirming Approach | Autistic Realms” to our “Labels” glossary page.
• Added quotes and video from “”What should be the relationship of AI & EdTech to education?” | Fireside Chat | CTRH2025 – YouTube” to our “Artificial Intelligence” glossary page.
• Added quote from “The Majority AI View – Anil Dash” to our “Artificial Intelligence” glossary page.
• Added quote from “Change the Data, Change the System with Polaris Education | Human Restoration Project | Chris McNutt Nick Covington” to our “Thick Data” glossary page.

Week 43

• Added a quote from David Byrne to “Rules of Punk”:
• Published “Everything that was normally supposed to be hidden was brought to the front.”.
• Shortened front page to a 5 screen, 1.5 – 2.0 minute read.
• Added quotes from “Einstein’s Beams and Feynman’s Colors: What We Lost When We Debunked Learning Styles | Punya Mishra’s Web” to “Facts, Fire, and Feels: Research-Storytelling from the Edges”.
• Added a quote from “Fun To Imagine – Richard Feynman” to “Behold the Spectrum”.
• Added a floating Table of Contents to stimpunks.org.
• Published “Dyspraxia” with selections from “The Lived Experience of Dyspraxia: Challenging Ableism and Embracing Neurodiversity – Mahmoud M Elsherif, 2025”.
• Published “Reframing Our Ways of Being Pathway”.
• Added “Monique Botha: Imagined futures: addressing systemic ableism in autism research – YouTube” to “ Facts, Fire, and Feels: Research-Storytelling from the Edges”.
• Added a quote from “Frontiers | Research by autistic researchers: an “insider’s view” into autism. The autistic way of being” to “Facts, Fire, and Feels: Research-Storytelling from the Edges”.
• Updated the “Impact” page with the latest stats.
• Put an “Our Impact” accordion in the “Urgent Appeal” lily pad at the top of our front page.
• Added “ The Autistic Communication Tool | Supporting Autistic People in Healthcare” to “We Need Human-Centered Healthcare – Stimpunks Foundation”.
• Purged some unused options from our WordPress options table to improve performance.
• Added “Therapist Neurodiversity Collective’s Ethics & Values – Therapist Neurodiversity Collective” to the Inspiration section of our “Creed”.
• Added “I will presume competence and respect bodily autonomy and self-determination.” to the “I will” section of our “Creed”.
• Added a quote from Ann Memmott to “Alternatives to ABA” and “Create a Neurodiversity Inclusive Environment”.
• Added a quote from Ira Socol to “Scientism and Epistemic Injustice: On the Problems with “Science of Reading””.
• Added a quote from “Where Is the Evidence? Looking Back to Jeanne Chall and Enduring Debates About the Science of Reading – Semingson – 2021 – Reading Research Quarterly – Wiley Online Library” to “Scientism and Epistemic Injustice: On the Problems with “Science of Reading””.
• Added a quote from Ira Socol to our “Learning Space: At the Intersection of Dewey and Freire” page: “For me, every educational question comes down to access and opportunity.”
• Published “The Nested Intersecting Spheres of Neurodiversity”.
• Added “The Nested Intersecting Spheres of Neurodiversity” to “Neurodiversity” and “Learning Space: At the Intersection of Dewey and Freire” and ”Create a Neurodiversity Inclusive Environment”.
• Added a “Systems of Power Pathway” accordion to the “Learning Pathways” lily pad.

Week 44

• Added a quote from “Getting Started Guide” to “Lily Pad”.
• Added “Food Assistance Resources” and “Community as a Tenet of Folk Magic” sections to our “Coping” field guide page with quotes from “Community as a Tenet of Folk Magic | Patreon” and “With fascism tightening its grip with… – The Feral Mountain Witch | Facebook”.
• Added “Food Assistance” and “Crisis Hotlines” buttons to the “Give Help, Get Help” lily pad and put the lily pad back on the front page before the learning pathways lily pad.
• Added sectional color blocking to the header, title, and footer of the site.
• Added navigation in the footer with breadcrumbs and table of contents for the current pages and a few recommendations for where to go next.
• Added photo of punk boots to the footer and tied it in into our “Walk in our shoes” theme.