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Here's the Latest from Stimpunks
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It's Okay to Be So Turbo: Get Kinetic With Amyl and the Sniffers
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Amyl and the Sniffers is one of the greatest punk bands of all time. Check out this new live set at KEXP. https://youtu.be/qhn2GBcikEU We feature their songs all over our website, including on our Kinetic Cognitive Style page. Amy is so wonderfully Kinetic. It's okay to be so turbo.Amy Taylor https://stimpunks.org/glossary/kinetic-cognitive-style/ ADHD or what I prefer to call Kinetic Cognitive …
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These tweets are good advice, especially before infodumping after someone tickles one of your SpIns. Today's tip for communicating while neurodiverse: no matter how exciting the thoughts you're having off someone else's point, make sure to start your reply by acknowledging you saw & understood what they said.It's amazing how easily you can look like you're arguing with someone bc …
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Six Things Educators Must Know About Neurodivergent People
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Here are six things we think every educator must know about neurodivergent people. By understanding these, we make “all means all” more meaningful. Spiky Profiles Monotropism Double Empathy Problem Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria Exposure Anxiety Situational Mutism Table of ContentsSpiky ProfilesMonotropism & the Double Empathy ProblemExposure Anxiety, Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, and Situational MutismFive More Things: Five Neurodivergent Love Languages Spiky Profiles …
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Attention Neurodivergent and Disabled Creators: Apply for a Stimpunks Creator Grant
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Stimpunks Foundation will be awarding three US$3,000 grants to artists/creators before the end of the year. You will find information on how to apply here: https://stimpunks.org/creators/. This is also where you will submit your application. The closing date for accepting applications will be 12/05/2022. If you have any questions please reach out to our Director by email: chelsea@stimpunks.org. We are …
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Driven to Meltdown, Castigated for Melting
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I feel the weight of this quote from Pete Wharmby’s new book, "What I Want to Talk About How Autistic Special Interests Shape a Life". The tendency to force a meltdown upon an autistic person, and then to castigate them for acting in such a childish and ungrateful way, is a rhythm that most autistic adults will recognize and despise. …
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Wendell & Wild: An Indictment of the School-to-Prison Pipeline with a Banging Black Punk Soundtrack
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“Wendell & Wild” has a Black punk soundtrack, a Black girl protagonist with a transgender friend, a critique of the school-to-prison pipeline, and Key & Peele. https://youtu.be/tJp5pLsXhgo The official playlist is full of Black and Queer Punk. It’s a banger. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX5GxLXfvv01I?si=62ccbc2bc2d440a8 Spoiler Alert: The following pullquote is revealed later in the movie and is spoiler-ish. We make it impossible for …
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Mutual Aid and Human-Centered Learning for Neurodivergent and Disabled People (plain language)
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Stimpunks is created by and for neurodivergent and disabled people. We provide mutual aid, learning opportunities, human-centered research, and living wages for our community. We presume competence, and we believe in self-determination.We, Stimpunks Stimpunks in a Minute Stimpunks Foundation challenges the typical approach to helping people who are neurodivergent or disabled. We know what it is like to live with …
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Sharing Your Story for Political Purpose
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People with disabilities need to make policies ourselves. We should get to use our stories to help change the world.Nothing about us, without us!Sharing Your Story For A Political Purpose The government makes a lot of policies, and many of those policies affect people with disabilities. Sometimes, the government makes policies without talking to people with disabilities. When that happens, …
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Co-regulation is when we complete the stress cycle with the support of a safe enough person.Infants & small children do not have the biological capacity to complete the stress cycle alone. That is built over time through a multitude of coregulation experiences.A safe enough person is a person in safe & social mode. They have deep belly breathing, expressive face, …
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Strategic Essentialism
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However, antisubordination activists have engaged in a form of strategic essentialism as a means of resistance (Spivak, 1989). Mimicking conventional strategies of nonsubordinated power holders, strategic essentialism is a move by members of a subordinated category to simplify group identity and counter normative expectations. DisCrit—Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education (Disability, Culture, and Equity Series) (p. 205). Teachers …
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Identity Politics
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We realize that the only people who care enough about us to work consistently for our liberation are us. Our politics evolve from a healthy love for ourselves, our sisters and our community which allows us to continue our struggle and work. This focusing upon our own oppression is embodied in the concept of identity politics. We believe that the …
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White-Male Effect
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"white-male effect," a form of cognition that protects status. In the words of one study, the findings expose "a host of new practical and moral challenges for reconciling the rational regulation of risk with democratic decision making."The Risk Makers. The nuclear, auto, and food industries… | by Catherine Buni and Soraya Chemaly | Sep, 2020 | OneZero The internet's "condition …
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Conceptual Portmanteau
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"Web-Based Conceptual Portmanteau" is an internet based expression of meaning that relies on web-based technologies to present a claim, argument, sentence, or text snippet with at least two of the following features as inherent to the text structure: embedded definitions, which are inextricably attached to the claim, argument, sentence, or text snippet. variant phrases of similar/different registers, including registers of …
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Privacy
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Living Privately. - Building and maintaining a sense of what to show in each social environment. - Discovering and creating new environments in which we can show more of ourselves. - Assessing where you can grow new parts of yourself which aren't (yet) for public display. On Privacy - Human Systems - Medium K12 classrooms--and most families--have bad password practices. Passwords for Google Classroom accounts are …
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Code
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Code has been my life, and it has been your life, too. It is time to understand how it all works. What is Code? What is Code? is great interactive longform offering an engaging look at the history of coding and software culture. It takes you from the hardware up to people and culture in an accessible way. For a …
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Aloneness
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Aloneness is a characteristic that many creatives embrace and yearn for. Being alone is anything but lonely. Reading, writing, and creating art all demand a personal space where one can be alone in peaceful silence to think, to imagine. As a neurodivergent creative, aloneness is always a requirement for me. It is a prerequisite and a portable sanctuary that allows …
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