Category: Neurodiversity
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Sharing: NDConnection’s Neurodiversity-Affirming Care Toolkit + SPACE Series
Neurodiverse Connection just published a practical, interactive toolkit for neurodiversity-affirming care and support — and it’s one of the most important resources we’ve seen arrive this year.
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Aspire To Be Autonomous: How The Principles of The Neurodiversity Movement Can Empower Neurodivergent and Disabled People
Key terms: Neurodiversity – a fact that there is a diversity of human brains and minds Neurodiversity paradigm – a specific framework stemming from neurodiversity being a natural form of diversity (like biodiversity) and that a ‘healthy’ or ‘normal’ is a social construct. It is a revolutionary way of thinking about being human because it…
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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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Animated Introductions to Autism, ADHD, and Neurodiversity
If you watch our YouTube playlist “Animated Introductions to Autism, ADHD, and Neurodiversity” you’ll come away well-grounded in neurodiversity and neurodivergent ways of being. Featuring short, accessible, tightly-scripted, animated videos.
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Call for Submissions: Share your experiences of being monotropic.
Open Invite: Share your experiences of being monotropic. Share poems, art, blogs, essays, videos, podcasts, music, etc. that reflect your experience of being monotropic. We will publish across Stimpunks & Autistic Realms as part of our community project. Some stories may be chosen for a community ebook that will be openly licensed; if you would…
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Design Challenge: Neurodiversity Punk Hedgehog Mascot Inspired by Wapuu
Community artists, let’s make some Neurodiversity Hedgehog Mascots Inspired by Wapuu.
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Zappa: A Monotropic Life
Entering flow states – or attention tunnels – is a necessary coping strategy for many of us. Fergus Murray I just watched the Frank Zappa documentary by Alex Winter. Zappa strikes me as intensely, relentlessly, and relatably monotropic. For me, the film shouts “monotropism” and “flow state” throughout. When focused like this an Autistic person…
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Empire of Normality: An Important Book Necessary to Our Times
“Empire of Normality” by Robert Chapman is an important book necessary to our times. We live in an age of mass behaviorism, unvarnished eugenics, and neuronormative domination. “Empire of Normality” explains how we got here. …mass neurodivergent disablement and constant, widespread anxiety, panic, depression, and mental illness, combined with systemic discrimination of neurodivergent people, is…
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Ordinary tried to fix me. I was a threat to a page in history.
I make the right mistakesAnd I say what I meanSpare me from the mold Spare Me From The Mold by Gossip We are marginalized canaries in a social coalmine and Rawlsian barometers of society’s morality. It is deeply subversive to live proudly despite being living embodiments of our culture’s long standing ethical failings. Our non-compliance is not intended to be…
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Disability Inclusion Fund Grant Proposal
We recently applied for the “Disability Inclusion Fund Grant” and thought we’d share our answers to their questions. Questions Guiding Values All funding will be aligned with the Disability Inclusion Fund’s guiding values: Participation: Movement funding is accountable to the disability justice movement. Those most impacted by injustice/exclusion should be involved in strategies to advance…
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🌈🌈 We’re A Double Rainbow All the Way
Given the entwined nature of queer liberation and neurodivergent liberation, I’ll take this opportunity to remind you that Gwen Nelson, the original creator of Autistic Pride Day, is a trans woman. Nick Walker on Twitter Today, June 18th, is Autistic Pride Day, which was created by a trans woman. Queer and neurodivergent liberation are entwined.…
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Neuroqueering Child Psychotherapy
Peering out from the edge of a lake. The water is still, but lapping restlessly. What lies beneath? I am eager to know but alone on the edge of the lake. A hood covers my features. I take a step into the oddly warm water. It laps against my feet, staining my shoes with a…
