Author: Ryan Boren
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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. 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…
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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…
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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. 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 ADHD or what I prefer…
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“Yes, And…” Infodump
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…
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Six Things Educators Must Know About Neurodivergent People
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
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Driven to Meltdown, Castigated for Melting
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…
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Wendell & Wild: An Indictment of the School-to-Prison Pipeline with a Banging Black Punk Soundtrack
“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. The official playlist is full of Black and Queer Punk. It’s a banger. Spoiler Alert: The following pullquote is revealed later in the movie and is spoiler-ish. We make…
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The Sensory Hell of the Lunchroom
Needless to say, the dining hall, as well as being busy, crowded and a source of multiple odours, was also very noisy, as trays were picked up and clattered back down, cutlery jangled, and metal serving dishes clanged against metal hot plates. Meanwhile, the children, squeezed into rows of tiny seats bolted on to collapsible…
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Five Ways to Welcome All Bodyminds to Your Learning Event
We have detailed accessibility checklists and recommendations in our course “Enable Dignity: The Accommodations for Natural Human Variation Should Be Mutual“, but for this piece we reduce down to five things you can learn and do to welcome all bodyminds to your learning event. We Stimpunks really appreciate when the recommendations above and the access…
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What the Mods Mean for Disability Representation in Star Wars
This video essay from Questing Refuge on disability representation and radical visibility in Star Wars is excellent and appreciated. In this video, I hope to highlight why aesthetic choices like we see with The Mods can make a lot of sense by exploring groups in real life that choose to stand out. how The Mods…
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Infinity Heart Brain Spine: Exploring Symbols for Interdependence and Pluralism That Might Just Be Fancy Pretzels
At Stimpunks, we’ve been using this hand sign as a symbol of interdependence. The thumb and index fingers interlock to form an infinity symbol, and the remaining fingers form the point of a heart. Infinity + heart. To avoid confusion with the polyamory sign, which is very similar, we thought, “what if the heart is…
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What’s Your Role in Social Change at 100 Seconds to Midnight?
It is 100 seconds to midnight. “It is 100 seconds to midnight. We are now expressing how close the world is to catastrophe in seconds – not hours, or even minutes. It is the closest to Doomsday we have ever been in the history of the Doomsday Clock. We now face a true emergency –…
