Category: Neurodiversity
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We Use Interaction Badges at Our Events
At our events, we use interaction badges. Come Talk To Me A person wearing a green badge is actively seeking interaction. They may have trouble initiating conversations, but it’s okay to come up and start a conversation with them. A white circle on a green background with the word “GREEN” beneath. Do I Know You?…
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Neurodiversity in the Classroom
Neurodiversity is an equity imperative and is critical in shifting the culture of teaching and learning. We offer several series and courses on neurodiversity in the classroom. This is what our community of neurodivergent and disabled people wants to say to educators. This is 100s of hours of free and open professional development, deeply and…
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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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Tech Workers: Is Autistic Conversion Therapy, ABA, in Your Company’s Ad Stock?
We autistic people helped build these tech platforms and companies and the collaboration cultures they run on. Is ABA, autistic conversion therapy, in the ad stock at the companies and platforms we poured our lives into? Almost universally, yes. ABA ads are everywhere. YouTube videos that we embed on Stimpunks.org pages warning about ABA have…
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Autigender and Neuroqueer: Two Words on the Relationship Between Autism and Gender That Fit Me
These two words helped me figure myself out more. Passing them along. Header art: “Autigender and Neuroqueer” by Betsy Selvam is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 Autigender Autigender is not explicitly saying that “My gender is autism” – it’s not about saying you are a boy, girl, enby, autism, whatever. It’s about your relationship with…
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Lost In Translation: Ways in Which Neurodivergent and Neurotypical Social Languages Differ
We the neurodivergent are genetically different. We experience the world through a hypersensitive nervous system which informs every aspect of our thinking, our behavior, and our social values. The dominant social group labels our way of being in the world as disordered because they don’t understand us. Even though they don’t understand, the dominant culture…
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Missed in Childhood: Nearly All Autistic and ADHD Women
Our results indicate that there may be a substantial group of patients with ASD and other NDDs that are missed in childhood. Neurodevelopmental disorders and comorbidity in young adults attending a psychiatric outpatient clinic – ScienceDirect Almost two thirds (63%) of the study group met criteria for ADHD or ASD. Most of the patients with…
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The Five Neurodivergent Love Locutions
We love this fun tweet on the five neurodivergent love locutions from the always insightful Myth. The five neurodivergent love languages: infodumping, parallel play, support swapping, Please Crush My Soul Back Into My Body [deep pressure], and “I found this cool rock/button/leaf/etc and thought you would like it” [penguin pebbling] Myth @neurowonderful Emotional bids are…
