Author: Ryan Boren
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We’re published in “It Takes All Kinds of Minds: Fostering Neurodivergent Thriving at School”
Stimpunks Co-Creative Director Helen has a chapter in “It Takes All Kinds of Minds: Fostering Neurodivergent Thriving at School” on “Embracing Monotropism and Flow”.
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for December 2025
Our website is a living document that is always changing and growing. Here are some changes we made to the website in December.
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for November 2025
Our website is a living document that is always changing and growing. Here are some changes we made to the website in November.
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We have a chapter in “Sensory Spaces: An A-Z of Immersive and Creative Environments to Support Sensory Integration”
Our Co-Creative Directors Helen Edgar and Ryan Boren have a chapter on “Cavendish Space” in the book “Sensory Spaces: An A-Z of Immersive and Creative Environments to Support Sensory Integration”, available now from Routledge. Sensory spaces invite learners to be curious and try new ideas and skills, inspiring imaginative play, creativity and storytelling. This comprehensive…
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for October 2025
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 Week 41 Week 42 Week 43 Week 44
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A Meditation for My Neurokin
Ashes to ashes Dust to dust Bend, shape, mask I must, I must
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The Incredible Inconvenience of the Neurodivergent to the “Science of Learning”: You’ll Never See Us Through Your Complexity Controls
Neurodivergent people are treated as noise to be filtered out in most studies supporting the “science of learning”. We are discounted as outliers. Our needs and ways of being are deemed too inconvenient to consider. So, the vast majority of studies just ignore us.
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for May 2025
Our website is a living document that is always changing and growing. Here are some changes we made to the website in May.
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Professor Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning
In this talk, Guy Claxton warns against the scientism and epistemic injustice of “The Science of Learning” and proposes something very much aligned with our notions of collaborative niche construction, toolbelt theory, collaboration, and iteration. These contribute to what Claxton calls “epistemic apprenticeship”.
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Niche Construction and Toolbelt Theory: Developing the Tools and Terroir of Coping and Learning
Niche Construction focuses on shaping the environment. Toolbelt Theory emphasizes personal tool selection. Together, they promote autonomy, adaptability, and personalized learning experiences.
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Beyond Awareness: Exploring Your Autistic Profile and Identity – Part 2
For those of you who are visual thinkers, it may be helpful to imagine the executive functions as senior staff responsible for managing a large company. Senior staff delegate and plan tasks for a business, in a similar way to how executive functioning skills enable us as individuals to plan, organise and ultimately carry out…
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Beyond Awareness: Exploring Your Autistic Profile and Identity – Part 1
As an autistic person, I have always been aware of my fellow neurokin. More than aware, acutely aware, a magnetic visceral connection pulling me towards my community. Even as a young child at primary school (unaware of my neurotype) my ‘autdar’ (was very strong and accurate), I instinctively felt the need to be near other…
