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

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

Week 14

• Updated “Rules of Thumb for Human Systems” with a selection from “Crick, Nathan. Dewey for a New Age of Fascism: Teaching Democratic Habits (Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation Book 22)”.
• Updated “Becoming” with a quote from “Crick, Nathan. Dewey for a New Age of Fascism: Teaching Democratic Habits (Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation Book 22)”.
• Updated “Learning Pathways: Take a Walk in Our Shoes” with selections from “Autistics on Autism. What everyone — especially… | by Fergus Murray | Apr, 2025 | Medium”.
• Updated “Neurodivergent” with selections from “Yes, it really is possible for everyone to be neurodivergent”.
• Auto translated “Neurodivergent” to 14 languages.
  

Week 15

• Updated “Healthcare Access: They don’t take Disability Studies classes. They don’t socialize with us. They don’t listen to us.” with a layout refresh.
• Published “Healthcare Pathway”.
• Published “Monotropism Reflected in the Communication Style of Artistic Expression”.
• Fixed breadcrumbs in title tags to no longer show translated text for English pages.
• Added Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for Q2 2025 to the “Now” page and the Notion OKRs page. Moved the Q1 OKRs into an accordion.
• Worked on NQLS slides.
• Worked on “Seeds of Cope” event.
• Added an “About Esmx” accordion to the “Our Mascot” section of the front page.
• Added an Esmx section to our “Brand Identity: Logos, Symbols, and Visual Storytelling” page.
• Published “Our Mascot: Esmx the Porkypine”.
• Published “R-Word”.
• Integrated “Ranking the Myths of the System – YouTube” into “Stories and Myth: Building a Progressive Storytelling Ecosystem”.
• Added “Kae Tempest – Statue In The Square (Official Video) – YouTube” to “Learning Pathways: Take a Walk in Our Shoes”.
• Added “Self Care Is Punk – YouTube” to “🌈♿️ Mutual Aid and Human-Centered Learning for Neurodivergent and Disabled People”.
• Updated “Autism Pathway” with more resources.
• Updated “Healthcare Pathway” with more resources.
• Updated “Nonspeaking” with selections from “Conceptualizing and describing autistic language: Moving on from ‘verbal’, ‘minimally verbal’ and ‘nonverbal’ – Kristen Bottema-Beutel, Alyssa Hillary Zisk, Jordyn Zimmerman, Betty Yu, 2025”.
• Updated the “Learning Pathways” lily pad to use accordions for the “Autism Pathway”, “Education Pathway”, and “Healthcare Pathway” pathways. Added the “Learning Pathways” lily pad near the top of the front page.
  

Week 16

• Updated “The Cult of Compliance and the Policing of the Norm” with selections from “(PDF) The Analysis of Nonverbal Communication: The Dangers of Pseudoscience in Security and Justice Contexts” and embeds of “I Debunked Every “Body Language Expert” on Youtube – YouTube” and “Police Interrogations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) – YouTube”.
• Updated the front page with a testimonials slider.
• Expanded the “Down the Rabbit Hole: We’ve Got Space for You” section of the front page with “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane, Wolpertinger art, a Zelda Map, and an “Alice in Wonderland” quote. Remember what the Dormouse said.
• Updated “Creator Grants” with more details on 1099s and what documentation we need for how grants are spent.
• Rotated some art and songs back to the front page. The front page now has 24 songs and 36 pieces of art. Give the front page a scroll. It’s dope.
  

Week 17

• Created a Youtube playlist of the songs on our front page: Stimpunks.org Front Page – YouTube
• Updated “Find your people.” with a layout refresh.
• Added a quote on human needs near the top of the front page.
• Updated “Facts, Fire, and Feels: Research-Storytelling from the Edges” with a quote from “Embracing Radical Research in Academia – Autistic and Living the Dream”.
• Updated the title of our front page to: “Authenticity Is Our Purest Freedom”.
• Updated “Pitch Deck” with layout changes.
• Updated “Autism Pathway” with quotes from “ Welcome Pack” by Reframing Autism and ‘“I’m not feeling alone in my experiences”: How newly diagnosed autistic adults engage with a neurodiversity-affirming “Welcome Pack” – Chris Edwards, Abigail MA Love, Ru Ying Cai, Melanie Heyworth, Alexandra Johnston, Fiona Aldridge, Vicki Gibbs, 2025’.
• Updated “Autism Pathway” with references to “AuDHD” and “Kinetic Cognitive Style”.
• Updated “Education Pathway” with selections from “Monotropism at School – Monotropism”. Created a “What Six Common Features of Autistic Thinking Mean for Teachers in the Classroom” section.
• Added the song “If There Was Ever a Time” by The Armstrongs to the front page to reinforce the “Responsibility for the survival of entire communities lies with us.” and “It is time to celebrate our interdependence!” lines.
  

Week 18

• Moved the “Navigating Our Website” section further up the front page.
• Expanded the opening section of our front page with more about us and our programs and titled it “The Help”.
• Added section “The Need” near the top of the front page to serve as a “need statement”.
• Added section “Authenticity Is Our Purest Freedom” explaining what that phrase means to us to the front page.