|
|
|
|
|
Here's the Latest from Stimpunks
|
|
|
|
Changelog: Updated and New on Stimpunks.org for December 2022
|
|
|
|
I spent the holidays with our website. Here's what's updated and new for December. 13 new blog posts. 3 new pages. 3 updated pages. 18 new glossary entries. 7 updated glossary entries. Table of ContentsNew blog postsNew pagesUpdated pagesNew glossary entriesUpdated glossary entries New blog posts https://stimpunks.org/2022/12/27/letter-to-the-boston-globe-on-the-mismeasure-of-misha-my-son-broke-free-from-the-most-common-therapy-for-autism-why-is-it-used-on-so-many-kids-like-him/ https://stimpunks.org/2022/12/27/youth-suicides-are-closely-tied-with-in-person-school-attendance/ https://stimpunks.org/2022/12/11/none-of-us-ashes-all-of-us-flames-lets-organize-our-lives-around-love-and-care/ https://stimpunks.org/2022/12/10/a-fade-to-extinction-for-ethically-questionable-approaches-that-disregard-neurodiversity/ https://stimpunks.org/2022/12/10/autism-research-is-in-crisis-a-mixed-method-study-of-researchers-constructions-of-autistic-people-and-autism-research/ https://stimpunks.org/2022/12/09/a-sound-that-turns-the-mountains-into-sand/ https://stimpunks.org/2022/12/07/autism%E2%80%90related-language-preferences-of-english%E2%80%90speaking-individuals-across-the-globe/ https://stimpunks.org/2022/12/07/books-every-progressive-educator-should-read/ https://stimpunks.org/2022/12/07/fundamental-texts-of-progressive-pedagogy/ https://stimpunks.org/2022/12/07/new-releases-in-our-own-voices/ https://stimpunks.org/2022/12/05/smoking-secrets/ https://stimpunks.org/2022/12/05/key-principles-when-supporting-autistic-people/ https://stimpunks.org/2022/12/01/get-kinetic-with-amyl-and-the-sniffers/ New …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Letter to the Boston Globe on "The Mismeasure of Misha: My son broke free from the most common therapy for autism. Why is it used on so many kids like him?"
|
|
|
|
Where, I wondered, did ABA’s scientific principles come from?“Skinner,” Larry replied.“B.F. Skinner? The Harvard psychologist who trained pigeons to play Ping-Pong?”“Yes.”The mismeasure of Misha: My son broke free from the most common therapy for autism. Why is it used on so many kids like him? CW: ABA, behaviorism, ableism, quiet hands To the Boston Globe, Thank you for publishing "The …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Youth Suicides Are Closely Tied With In-Person School Attendance
|
|
|
|
“The findings of this study suggest that youth suicides are closely tied with in-person school attendance.”In-Person Schooling and Youth Suicide: Evidence from School Calendars and Pandemic School Closures | NBER The findings of this study align with experiences in our communities of neurodivergent and disabled people, where we reframe “school refusal” as “school-induced anxiety”. Bullying is only a part of …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
None of Us Ashes, All of Us Flames: Let's Organize Our Lives Around Love and Care
|
|
|
|
We may only be subordinates but we hear everything All your closed-door conversations, we’re always listening We sense frequencies you’d never hear or think to pay attention to And we can tell what’s on its way here, long before the train comes through Ezra Furman – Train Comes Through Lyrics https://youtu.be/jhcFaptx7jg Canaries Ezra Furman’s “All of Us Flames” is an anthem …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A Fade to Extinction for Ethically Questionable Approaches That Disregard Neurodiversity
|
|
|
|
What do we want?“…a fade to extinction for ethically questionable approaches that disregard neurodiversity.”Neurodivergent Dr on Twitter As autistic physicians, we agree with the position of Dawson et al1: the neurodiversity movement regards autistic individuals to be both neurodivergent (diverging from the neurotypical majority) and disabled by environments not designed for autistic flourishing.1 Neurodiversity-informed therapeutic interventions therefore emphasize modification of …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“Autism research is in crisis”: A Mixed Method Study of Researcher’s Constructions of Autistic People and Autism Research
|
|
|
|
...autistic people disrupt research agendas.@DrMBotha This new research investigates ableist framing and language in autism research, of which there is an abundance. While not all autism research is ableism, autism researchers can be ableist, including by talking about autistic people in sub-human terms (dehumanization), treating autistic people like objects (objectification), and making othering statements which set autistic people apart from …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A Sound That Turns the Mountains Into Sand
|
|
|
|
When bigots have got me down and I need to scream and air guitar it out, I turn to Screaming Females, my favorite power trio of all time and space. Marissa Paternoster is an epic force on vocals and guitar. Here she is singing about gender non-conformity and homophobia, screaming “While you sit on the fence I will burn in …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Autism‐Related Language Preferences of English‐Speaking Individuals Across the Globe
|
|
|
|
This brand new open access research confirms broad autistic community preference for identity-first language and the words “autism”, “autistic”, and “neurodivergent”. …autistic people's language preferences often result from deep reflection on discrimination, ableism, and their identity. …the term that was endorsed by the highest proportion of the participants was ‘Autistic person’ 79.5%, followed by ‘Neurodivergent person’ 70.0% and ‘Autistic’ 67.4% …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Books Every Progressive Educator Should Read
|
|
|
|
Our friends Nick and Chris of Human Restoration Project list some of their favorite books for progressive educators. https://youtu.be/JwXQPuHG98k I think a cornerstone of progressive education is understanding the connections between happiness and contentment and learning. Schooling should be about creating a better world not preparing people for the world that exists. Chris McNutt of Human Restoration Project Hope is …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fundamental Texts of Progressive Pedagogy
|
|
|
|
Our friends at Human Restoration Project suggest that their community read these four "fundamental texts of progressive pedagogy" to understand their philosophy. These are great recommendations that also help understand our philosophy at Stimpunks. Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks Timeless Learning: How Imagination, Observation, and Zero-Based Thinking Change Schools by Ira Socol, Pam Moran, and Chad Ratliff The Schools …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
New Releases in Our Own Voices
|
|
|
|
Here are some recent books by neurodivergent and disabled people that we recommend. We provide WorldCat links, embed Kindle previews, and feature quotes for each book. What I Want to Talk About How Autistic Special Interests Shape a Life by Pete Wharmby Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong Taking off …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
by Betsy Selvam Content Note: gender dysphoria I. I muster enough courage to smoke — a sin I’ve smelled only on mouths of men until I left home for college. I almost want someone I know to spot my lips wisping white and trip with shock. Good girls don’t smoke. But I am no good, no girl. This is not …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Key Principles When Supporting Autistic People
|
|
|
|
The community at Spectrum Gaming released “Key Principles when supporting autistic people” at Barriers to Education. We believe in REAL coproduction, so have worked with our community to create 'Our Key Principles When Supporting Autistic Young People'.We think they are really important, so have made them available for anyone to use/ read/ share.@Spectrum0Gaming https://twitter.com/Spectrum0Gaming/status/1598328951801364482?s=20&t=T8ghVBuIO-k_nZugAR97Kw We highly recommended this resource, including …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
It's Okay to Be So Turbo: Get Kinetic With Amyl and the Sniffers
|
|
|
|
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 …
|
|
|
|
|
|
Electrify Everything: Decarbonization Requires Electrification
|
|
|
|
Tackling climate change is a complicated undertaking, to say the least. But here's a good rule of thumb for how to get started:Electrify everything.There’s increasing expert consensus: Decarbonization requires electrification.The key to tackling climate change: electrify everything - Vox In January of 2020, before COVID lockdown, we (a Stimpunks family) signed on a solar plus battery system for our home. …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mosh Covenant: Let’s bolster against stress and pass down bodily survival knowledge.
|
|
|
|
Mosh pit dancing is a exultant way to group stim and pass along the bodily survival knowledge of stim dancing and deep pressure input. https://videopress.com/v/yenjJLy2?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Table of ContentsLet's bolster against stress and pass down bodily survival knowledge.Let's get unapologetically, autistically, kinetically wild.Let's get vestibular, safely, with some mosh etiquette.Let's bliss.Stimming is beautiful.Pit EnergyAppropriate Space: Volunteer-Run Community Space Let's bolster against …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Welcome to our community thing library. ...engage in building full-fledged library economies based on the commons. This can take the form of tool libraries, vehicle libraries, clothing libraries, furniture libraries, and more in an effort to curb overproduction, end planned obsolescence, and provide access to an irreducible minimum to all. How We Can Change The World - YouTube https://youtu.be/NOYa3YzVtyk In …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mutual Aid and Human-Centered Learning for Neurodivergent and Disabled People (plain language)
|
|
|
|
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 …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
transformative justice—justice practices that go all the way to the root of the problem and generate solutions and healing there, such that the conditions that create injustice are transformed.Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds Transformative Justice: Acknowledges the reality of state harm. Looks for alternative ways to address/interrupt harm, which do not rely on the state. Relies on organic, creative …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
W.E.I.R.D.
|
|
This acronym refers to Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic societies. Most research is conducted on, and conducted by, relatively homogeneous samples from WEIRD societies. This limits the generalizability of a large number of research findings, particularly given that WEIRD people are often psychological outliers. It has been argued that “WEIRD psychology ” started to evolve culturally as a result …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
hey you know how when you have #ADHD sometimes your thoughts are all swirly and you just keep chewing on the same thought over and over and you can't stop thinking about it and it's distracting you and sometimes even putting you in a really bad mood or making you irritable? my friend, you are RUMINATING let's talk about rumination …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Entering flow states - or attention tunnels - is a necessary coping strategy for many of us.Fergus Murray People need to feel appreciated and safe, to give themselves to an activity; and they need to feel like they are making progress to keep giving themselves to it. To get into The Zone, you need to know you're getting somewhere, that …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Self diagnosis is not just “valid” — it is liberatory. When we define our community ourselves and wrest our right to self-definition back from the systems that painted us as abnormal and sick, we are powerful, and free.You can pursue formal diagnosis if you want, for legal protection and educational access. It will never be what makes you Autistic. If …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
We can joke fondly about it now, but my forty-two-consecutive-month campaign against a full night’s sleep nearly broke my parents. They managed to hone hour-of-the-wolf parenting into a fine art by the end of this waking nightmare. They took shifts with me. Sometimes they’d take me down to the living room, set up camp in front of the TV and …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
HERE, THEN, is a reason to hone our interoceptive sense: people who are more aware of their bodily sensations are better able to make use of their non-conscious knowledge. Mindfulness meditation is one way of enhancing such awareness. The practice has been found to increase sensitivity to internal signals, and even to alter the size and activity of that key …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Postmortem
|
|
A postmortem is a written record of an incident, its impact, the actions taken to mitigate or resolve it, the root cause(s), and the follow-up actions to prevent the incident from recurring.Postmortem Culture: Learning from Failure, Site Reliability Engineering What is postmortem? A postmortem is a written record of an incident that describes: The incident's impact. The actions taken to mitigate …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Taken together, extensive research has revealed that justice sensitivity is a valuable construct for the description, prediction, explanation, and modification of individual differences in justice-related emotion and behavior. Justice sensitivity is nonredundant with other personality constructs but has meaningful overlap with variables of inter- and intrapersonal functioning. It has been shown to be a strong predictor of emotion and behavior …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A tradition in comedy says: Always punch up, never punch down. That is to say, don’t attack people who are already marginalized.Punching Up, Punching Down - The Good Men Project But slapping someone in the face and saying it’s comedy isn’t enough. Why Punching Down Will Never Be Funny Suddenly, even the most powerful people in society are forced to …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Abuse and silencing is a constant, pervasive theme in the lives of autistic people, and for many people it is best expressed by that old, familiar phrase from special education: quiet hands!Loud hands means resisting. Loud Hands means speaking, however we do, anyway—and doing so in a way that can be very obviously Autistic. It means finding ways to talk …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Allistic
|
|
The term ‘allistic’ is a synonym for ‘non-autistic’. The term ‘neurotypical’ is used to describe individuals with typical neurological development or functioning. Notably, this term is not an exact synonym of ‘non-autistic’; it is possible to be non-autistic but not neurotypical (e.g., if you have ADHD; see further discussion in Results and Discussion). Autism-related language preferences of English-speaking individuals across …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The term ‘school refusal’ is linguistically weaponised; it implies intent and choice. It swiftly and subtly frames the child as having taken an active, conscious decision to reject school. This misnomer apportions blame and responsibility to the young person while simultaneously diminishing their genuine distress. So, with refusal emphatically ruled out, what, then, should we call this? ‘Anxiety-based inability to …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
In The Ecology of Freedom, social ecologist Murray Bookchin spends a lot of time exploring three key concepts: usufruct, the irreducible minimum, and complementarity. These concepts are foundational to any cooperative, caring, and egalitarian society, but particularly to what Bookchin called ‘organic society,’ which consist of the egalitarian tribal societies that can be found in much of human history. Beginning …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Zero-Based Design
|
|
Zero-Based Design. It means you do not keep your kids trapped in your past. What would you do if you had to justify and defend every school rule? Every school procedure? Every school tradition? And you had to do that before every new school year? Zero-Based School Rules. Zero-Based School Procedures. | by Ira David Socol | Medium If you …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Toxic Masculinity
|
|
"Toxic masculinity," on the other hand, is a loose term that's used to refer to a subset of those behaviors which are harmful or destructive. It's often used as a sort of shorthand to describe behaviors linked to domination, humiliation, and control. It's marked by things like emotional detachment and hyper-competitiveness. It's also connected to the sexual objectification of women, …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Coddle
|
|
Somehow, a set of deeply conservative assumptions about children — what they’re like and how they should be raised — have congealed into the conventional wisdom in our society. Parents are accused of being both permissive and overprotective, unwilling to set limits and afraid to let their kids fail. Young people, meanwhile, are routinely described as entitled and narcissistic. . …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
In short, Spaced Repetition = testing + time.You test yourself on a fact repeatedly, spacing out your repetitions over time. (But won't this take forever? Ah, as we'll see later, there's a trick…) Spaced Repetition is free, evidence-based, and so simple you can do it with a shoebox.How To Remember Anything Forever-ish Our favorite introduction to spaced repetition is this …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
By observing fact checkers, we found that the best way to learn about a website is lateral reading—leaving a site to see what other digital sources say about it.Teaching Lateral Reading | Civic Online Reasoning lateral reading, a strategy for investigating a website or post by going outside the site itself. Evaluating where information comes from is an important part of …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Restorative practices (RP) derive from “restorative justice,” which is used to bring together, in mutual agreement for mediation, the victim and the perpetrator of an offense. The goal is typically restitution for harm caused while helping the perpetrator restore community ties. In education, “practices” is often swapped in for “justice” because it involves children who aren’t in criminal proceedings. Formal conflict resolution, after a dispute or …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A test used to find out if a particular facility is an institution. Used primarily by disability advocates. If you can't get up at 3 am and microwave yourself a burrito, it is one. For clarification, the question is about being allowed to do this if you choose to do so, not about wheather or not this is something you'd …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Put simply, mutual aid is a form of political participation in which people take responsibility for caring for one another and changing political conditions by building relationships, networks of reciprocity, and communal autonomy from the state. Mutual aid may involve work to support people impacted by harmful systems and work to create alternative infrastructure. It can take the form of …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ultimately Solarpunk envisions a world that might be slower, but more intentional. One that ties humanity closely to the natural world.A future with a human face and dirt behind its ears.How We Can Build A Solarpunk Future Right Now (ft. @Andrewism) https://youtu.be/twGcjDnOb_U This is Solarpunk. Finding the appropriate technologies to build aesthetically stimulating and liveable dwellings that tie us tightly …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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, …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
