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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…
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Seeds of Cope: A Mental Health Hootenanny
Seeds of Cope is a celebration foregrounding mental health and our many tools and techniques for coping. Join us May 17th.
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Attention tunnel wombs
About Viv Dawes I am late identified AuDHD with a PDA profile. I am a lived experience author, trainer and consultant and originally trained as an artist in the 1980s. As well as my work as an author and trainer I am a keen photographer. Thinking about how deep attention tunnels can be like a…
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How I Made Autism Make Sense: The Autistic Triad of Distinction
The “Triad of Distinction” from Autistimatic is a useful tool for understanding Autistic experience. The Autistic Triad of Distinction: Emotional Processing, Sensory Processing, Veracity (sense of)
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for April 2025
Our website is a living document that is always changing and growing. Here are some changes we made to the website in April.
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Map of Monotropic Experiences: Free Open Source Training Resources
For far too long, Autism has been explained from the outside. It’s time to tell our own stories. Explore our Map of Monotropic Experiences and discover a new, affirming way to understand your Autistic identity. Free training now available with Autistic Realms and Stimpunks!
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Our Mascot: Esmx the Porkypine
This adorable bundle of spikes is our official mascot. Esmx evokes the spiky profile of neurodivergent people.
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Monotropism Reflected in the Communication Style of Artistic Expression
Becca Cook is an AuDHD artist, animal communicator, and writer. Monotropism is a cognitive tendency often present in autistic individuals, characterized by an intense focus on one or two interests at a time. My attention feels like a narrow beam of light, bright, deep, and consuming. This focus creates a rich inner world, one where…
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for March 2025
Our website is a living document that is always growing and changing. Here are some changes we made to the website in March.
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Latest Terms in the Stimpunks Glossary for March 2025
As we go about our work, we expand our glossary, which is currently at 400 terms in English and 449 terms across all languages. We added 4 new terms in the past month.
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Grant Application Questions and Answers
Here are our answers to the questions on a grant we recently applied for. History When did your group come together and why? Share major accomplishments and tell us about your recent activities, successes, and learning opportunities. Stimpunks was created to forge the way for educational inclusion and to give our community the means to…
