One Idea Per Line

• Stimpunks was created to advocate for educational inclusion and empower our community.
• As a disabled and neurodivergent organization, we had to create our own education because public and private education did not include us.
• We had to establish our own care systems because we recognized that the only ones who consistently work for our liberation are ourselves.
• We believe that responsibility for the survival of entire communities lies with us.

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Stimpunks is a disabled and neurodivergent-run organization that was created to address the lack of educational inclusion and support for their community. They have developed their own educational programs and care systems to ensure that the needs of disabled and neurodivergent individuals are met. Inspired by the Combahee River Collective, Stimpunks emphasizes the importance of self-care and self-determination, recognizing that the responsibility for the well-being and liberation of their community lies with the community itself. Their goal is to empower their community to thrive and advocate for their rights and inclusion in society.

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Stimpunks is an organization that was created with the aim of promoting educational inclusion and providing support for the disabled and neurodivergent community. The founders of Stimpunks, who are themselves disabled and neurodivergent, recognized the lack of inclusivity in public and private education systems and decided to take matters into their own hands.

One of the ways Stimpunks addresses this issue is by offering their own educational programs. They have developed courses that cater to the specific needs and learning styles of disabled and neurodivergent individuals. By creating their own education, Stimpunks ensures that the content is accessible and relevant to their community.


In addition to education, Stimpunks also focuses on creating care systems that meet the needs of their community. They understand that the responsibility for the well-being and liberation of the disabled and neurodivergent community lies with the community itself. They have taken inspiration from the Combahee River Collective, a Black feminist organization, which emphasized the importance of self-care and self-determination.


Stimpunks recognizes that traditional systems often fail to adequately support marginalized communities, and they have taken it upon themselves to fill this gap. By creating their own education and care systems, they are empowering their community to thrive and take control of their own destinies.

Stimpunks’ approach is not limited to education and care alone. They also advocate for the rights and inclusion of disabled and neurodivergent individuals in society at large. Through their work, Stimpunks aims to challenge the existing systems and create a more inclusive and equitable world for all.

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We have protests to stage, driven by the fuel of our righteous anger. We have speeches to make, written from the soaring pleas of our individual and collective trauma, and our wildest dreams of joy and freedom and love. We have cultural narratives to rewrite because they really do hate us and they really will kill us, and if we’re going to rewrite the narratives, then there’s no reason to hold ourselves back from our most radical and defiant rewritings. We have autistic children who need us to support them as architects of their own liberation against the schools and clinicians and institutions and police and prosecutors who would crush and destroy them.

We’re going to need our anger and our public celebrations of stimming and our complicated, imperfect, messy selves for this long and hard road, because we need all of us, and all of our tactics and strategies, to keep a movement going and ultimately, to win.

Autistic Hoya — A blog by Lydia X. Z. Brown: The neurodiversity movements needs its shoes off, and fists up.

I, Victoria Lin Tanner, am just one of many people who discovered, after a lifetime of struggle, that I am autistic. This book is about my journey of self-discovery. It is also a scream into the cold, black void where no help is to be found for people like me. Autistic children become autistic adults, so why is there no support for us? I am here to shine a glaring spotlight on the ways that society has failed autistic adults. For many of the 5 million+ autistic Americans, and ~75 million worldwide, life would be made far more manageable and frankly, happier, if our struggles were supported in meaningful ways rather than through #autismawareness retweets and puzzle piece merchandise. 

We are here, we are angry, and we are only going to get louder. 

Autistic adults are not okay.

Autistic Adults Are Not Okay – Victoria Lin Tanner, Autistic Adults Not Okay, Autistic Visibility Project

We are not okay. I say this with the utmost compassion. You have inherent value, no matter how often your invisible labor goes unnoticed and unrewarded. You deserve to live, to rest, and to be noticed. It’s a sad fact of life that we autistics have had to do the lion’s share of our own advocating, but those who don’t understand our struggle are simply not motivated enough to push for change. We cannot allow the majority voice to be that of cure-mongerers speaking over us. So, get louder. Get angrier. This is our movement, and we need more than visibility. We need accessible and meaningful support.

Autistic Adults Are Not Okay – by Lin Tanner, Victoria

The instant, almost the very instant, you become disabled, you cease to be seen as a reliable narrator of your own story to literally everybody else, except for disabled people.

Every single ableist stereotype that you’ve heard for your entire life that you’ve never evaluated, that will be the lens through which other people see you, including people that know you.

This is one of the many reasons why people need to do anti-ableism work. Because every single thing you hate about us, you will hate about yourself. And becoming us is a lot easier than you think it is.

Imani Barbarin, MAGC | Crutches&Spice

This is what disability advocates have said all along, not that it usually sinks in: The able and the disabled aren’t two different kinds of people but the same people at different times.

Tom Scocca’s Medical Mystery: The Year My Body Fell Apart

We are the only minority community that anyone can join at any time.

11 Disability Rights Activists on Where the Fight for Justice Stands | Teen Vogue

Disability always has been and always will be a natural part of the human condition.

Simply a form of human variation, disability is universally present across racial, gender, age and socioeconomic lines. Moreover, disability represents the only minority group that anyone can join at any time and, when all human impairments are taken into account, people with disabilities by far encompass the largest minority group in the United States.

Elements and Essentials of the ADA

CW: medical trauma, medical ableism

I remember laying there, remembering that this experience I’m having is like the other times that I almost died.

And I can feel my life slipping away.

Is it worth it for me to call out and have someone save me?

That’s how traumatized that I’ve been by being in hospitals and in medical settings.

And I need for doctors and healthcare professionals to understand that many of us are traumatized like that.

It’s not abnormal for people like myself who have chronic illnesses, who have cancer, and have high touch and high interactions with medical professionals, to feel traumatized, to feel, is it worth it for me to go and get help for this experience that I’m having, for the possibility that something major is wrong?

Because for some of us waiting to see is worth the risk of possibly dying.

That’s how much we are no longer emotionally prepared to go to the hospital.

That’s how bad a physical experience it is for some of us.

Tinu Abayomi-Paul – YouTube

During the hospital experience, I dealt with racism, I dealt with sexism.

The first doctor I had was fantastic, but they rotated him out.

And the rest of my experience, I had to fight every single day to be heard and understood and to get better care.

I didn’t have my chronic illnesses properly addressed, I didn’t have any of my neurodiversities taken into consideration at all, nor my comfort.

It was a hellish experience towards the end.

And I finally decided I just need to get out of there.

Tinu Abayomi-Paul – YouTube

#MedTwitter is shocked that disabled & chronically ill folks identify as their conditions because they’ve never actually been exposed to us except in medical textbooks & clinics. They don’t take #DisabilityStudies classes. They don’t socialize with us. They don’t listen to us.

Karrie Higgins

Which means THEY actually reduce us to “nothing but our conditions” far more than we do. #MedTwitter But hey, wouldn’t want to tell the good doctors they’re ignorant.

Karrie Higgins

Bodies ride the waves
Somebody's gonna have to pay
Bodies, living on the shore in their sandcastles
Bodies, sea is getting rough and the walls rattle
Bodies, come with the tide
Nowhere left to hide
Bodies
Bodies

A thousand thoughts ride the waves
Can't save nobody, I'm too late
Bodies, no one cares about the coming last battle
Bodies, wavеs crashing down and the ocean swallows
Bodies
Whеre you gonna hide the bodies?
Bodies
Hey-oh-hey-oh

On the shore living in sandcastles
No one cares about the coming last battle
Sea is getting rough and the walls rattle
Waves crashing down and the ocean swallows
Bodies
Bodies

--Bodies by Rabbit Junk

Respectability politics didn’t save me then, and they won’t save our community or movement now or in the future either.

Our movement, however, needs nothing of respectability politics. Accepting — conceding, surrendering, submitting to — that will only erode our movement until it crumbles entirely. Respectability politics is what’s gotten us into reliance on foundations and nonprofits, and elected officials and bureaucrats, and policies and programs that only benefit the most privileged and resourced members of our communities at the direct expense of the most marginalized. Radical, militant anger — and radical, militant hope, and radical, wild dreams, and radical, active love — that’s what’ll get us past the death machines of ableism and capitalism and white supremacy and laws and institutions working overtime to kill us.

Autistic Hoya — A blog by Lydia X. Z. Brown: The neurodiversity movements needs its shoes off, and fists up.

What we saw at that camp was that our lives could be better. The fact of the matter is that you don’t have anything to strive for if you don’t know that it exists.

Jimmy Lebrecht

I had to try to adapt. I had to fit into this world that wasn’t built for me.

Jimmy Lebrecht

If I have to feel thankful about an accessible bathroom, when am I ever gonna be equal in the community?

Judith Heumann

Watch Crip Camp.

• We believe you.
• You’re not alone. 
• The wellness industry is gaslighting you.
• It’s not your fault.
• You are worthy of compassion.
• Medical bias is real.
• The way we see medicine practiced on television is a fantasy.
• We believe that you have a problem.
• We are angry and grieving too.
• Talking to other people who know what this feels like has changed everything for us.
• It’s okay to feel joy when your body is hurting.
• Feeling joy doesn’t undermine how much you are struggling. 
• It’s okay if you haven’t found any joy in your struggle at all.
• Your story doesn’t need a neat and tidy ending. 
• Somebody out there is yearning for a story just like yours that is honest about pain or maybe joy and that ends in an uncertain and messy place.
• Your story matters.
• We want to know your story. 
• We want to help you find the stories you’ve been yearning for.

Dear Problem Patients: An open letter to anyone who’s ever felt dismissed by their doctor – No End In Sight