Stimpunks is a large ecosystem — hundreds of pages of ideas, tools, and resources about neurodivergent life. The Orientation Map helps you find the right door for what you need right now. This page is different: it is the whole building, floor by floor.
Everything below is grouped by section and nested the way the site is structured. If you have ever felt lost here — unsure where a page lives, or whether it even exists — this is the page to browse. Nothing is hidden behind a menu you have to guess at.
Looking for a single term? The Glossary has its own map of 600+ entries. Not sure where to begin at all? Start Here and the Orientation Map are gentler front doors.
Tap a branch to jump to that section. The full nested directory follows below.
Maps & Orientation
Different ways in, and the maps that show how the whole world fits together.
- Start Here
- Browse Stimpunks by Need
- How to Read Stimpunks Without Getting Lost
- The Stimpunks Canon
- 🗺 Orientation Map
- The Three Maps of Stimpunks
- The Stimpunks Universe Map
- The Stimpunks Stack
- Our Series: Sustained Inquiry into Broken Systems
- Framing Documents
- The Stimpunks Operating System
- 📚🌈♿️ An Encyclopedia of Disability and Difference
- Now
- Changelog
- Newsletters
- Glossary: Develop a Language in Which We Can Both Understand and Challenge the World
About Stimpunks
Who we are, how we govern ourselves, and how we hold ourselves accountable in public.
- 🫀🧠✊ About Us: A Feisty Group of Disabled People
- Accessibility Statement
- Accountability & Transparency
- Annual Reports
- BBB Standards Alignment (Accountability Crosswalk)
- Board & Governance
- Charting Impact
- Conflict of Interest Policy
- Required Disclosures
- Donor Privacy Policy (Plain Language)
- Performance & Effectiveness Assessment Policy
- Program, Administration, and Fundraising Expenses (Plain-Language Policy)
- Gift Acceptance Policy
- Stimpunks — Logic Model & Outcomes Framework
- Whistleblower & Concern Reporting Policy
- Reading the Weather: Our Strategic Environment (PESTEL + SWOT)
- Where the Money Went (2025)
- Brand Identity: Logos, Symbols, and Visual Storytelling
- For Funders
- Emeritus
- Equity Statement
- Frequently Requested Information
- A Brief History of Stimpunks
- License: Everything Is a Remix
- QR
- Supporters
- The Tenets of Stimpunks
- Testimonials
- We…
- Why?
Foundations & Manifestos
The mission, values, and declarations at the root of the work.
- 🏩 Mission
- The Values of Stimpunks
- The Principles of Stimpunks
- Creed
- Program Pillars
- The Structural Pillars of Stimpunks
- The Neurodivergent Design Standard
- The Stimpunks Framework
- How Stimpunks Works
- Our Story: Challenging the Norm and Changing the Narrative
- Our Lens
- Learning Pathways: Take a Walk in Our Shoes
- Our Umbrella: It Is Time to Celebrate Our Interdependence!
- What makes us different, makes all the difference in the world.
- Essential Neurodiversity Vocabulary: The Good, The Bad, The Different
- Reframe Disability and Difference: We’re Going to Rewrite the Narratives
- Pitch Deck
- 🎸 A Public Service Announcement… with Guitar
- Impact
- Manifesto
Understand Neurodivergent Life
Language and lived experience — the conceptual core. Start with the Glossary if you want words for what you are experiencing.
- Monotropism & Attention Worlds
- Lived Experiences of Neurodivergent Life
- Everyday Neurodivergent Realities
- Learning Pathways
- 💬 Identity First Language: Thinking differently requires speaking differently.
- Languages: Stimpunks Around the World
The Philosophy of Stimpunks — 50 short tenets, one idea each. A few cornerstones:
- Broken Systems, Not Broken People
- Nothing about us without us.
- Default to Open
- Human needs, not special needs.
- Care Is Infrastructure
- Design Is Tested at the Edges
- Show Your Work
- Presume competence. Never assume that the ability to speak equals intelligence.
- Browse all Philosophy tenets →
Design Better Environments
The Stimpunks Design Method, the Pattern Language, and the spaces they build toward.
- The Stimpunks Design Method
- The Design Method
- The Neurodivergent Design Index
- The Stimpunks Quickstart Guide
- The Neurodivergent Design Handbook
- The Neurodivergent Design Methodology
- The Neurodivergent Design Framework
- The Stimpunks Design System
- Neurodivergent Design as a Paradigm Shift
- Neurodivergent Design Principles
- The Neurodivergent Design Standards
- The Neurodivergent Design Playbook
- The Neurodivergent Design Checklist
- Neurodivergent Design Case Studies
- The Stimpunks Design Language
- Theoretical Foundations of Neurodivergent Design
- Neurodivergent Design as an Emerging Design Science
- Collaborative Niche Construction
- Relational Design
- Monotropic AI
- Browse the full Design section →
- The Pattern Language of Neurodivergent Life
- The Stimpunks Pattern Atlas
- Pattern Clusters
- The Three Forces of Neurodivergent Life
- The Stimpunks Pattern Graph
- Pattern Library
- Pattern 15 — Attention Anchors
- Pattern 17 — Attention Ecology
- Pattern 11 — Burnout Threshold
- Pattern 16 — Cognitive Load Windows
- Pattern 13 — Context Switching Cost
- Pattern 05 — Deep Attention
- Pattern 10 — Energy Accounting
- Pattern 12 — Energy Recovery
- Pattern 09 — Environment Fit
- Pattern 14 — Interest-Driven Learning
- Pattern 08 — Masking Pressure
- Pattern 01 — Monotropism
- Pattern 04 — Processing Time
- Pattern 07 — Regulation First
- Pattern 03 — Sensory Load
- Pattern 18 — Sensory Thresholds
- Pattern 06 — Social Energy
- Pattern 02 — Spiky Profiles
- Pattern 19 — Stim Regulation
- Pattern Paths
- Pattern Recipes
- Designing Attention Sanctuaries
- Designing Flexible Participation
- Designing Inclusive Meetings
- Designing Intermittent Collaboration
- Designing Monotropic Workflows
- Designing a Neurodivergent Classroom
- Designing Predictable Environments
- Preventing Autistic Burnout
- Designing Recovery Cycles
- Designing Regulation Spaces
- Designing Sensory-Safe Spaces
- The Core Concepts of Neurodivergent Life
- Stimpunks Pattern Template
- From Traits to Patterns
- Learning Space: At the Intersection of Dewey and Freire
- Autism and Computing: The Root of Our Online Space
- Autistic SPACE for Inclusive Education: A Cavendish Space Crosswalk
- ⛺️🔥 Cavendish Space: Caves, Campfires, and Watering Holes for Dandelions, Tulips, and Orchids
- Fernand Deligny: The Buried Root of Cavendish Space
- Cavendish Space, SPACE-TIME, and The Stimpunks Design Method
- EcoNiches of Learning: A Crosswalk
- 🇫🇮 Finland 2045 and Our Learning Space: A Crosswalk
- Freedom Schools and Our Learning Space: A Crosswalk
- The Highlander Folk School and Our Learning Space: A Crosswalk
- ✌️ We Believe: Human-Centered, Trauma-Informed, Self-Determined, Equity-Literate, Interdisciplinary Learning with Open Technology
- When the Evidence Reaches the Door but Not the Design: A Meta-Analysis of Inquiry-Based Science for Disabled Students
- ☀️💪 Offline: Fresh Air, Daylight, and Large Muscle Movement
- 🌎 Online: Bringing Safety to the Serendipity
- Learning Space: At the Intersection of Dewey and Freire
- Pedagogies of Collapse and Our Learning Space: A Crosswalk
- Spaces of Relational Opacity and Our Learning Space: A Crosswalk
- SPACE-TIME and Cavendish Space: Shared Roots, Mutual Extension
- Inside the Tunnel: How to Sit Beside a Monotropic Learner
- Designing Neurodivergent Environments
- The Ecology of Neurodivergent Environments
- Inclusive Meetings
- Neurodivergent Cities
- Neurodivergent Classrooms
- Neurodivergent Community Spaces
- Collaborative Digital Spaces
- Neurodivergent Homes
- Neurodivergent Learning Ecosystems
- Neurodivergent Libraries
- Neurodivergent Studios
- Neurodivergent Workplaces
- A Pattern Language for Neurodivergent Civilization
- Enable Dignity: Everywhere Should Be Accessible
- Bathroom Access
- Education Access: We’ve Turned Classrooms Into a Hell for Neurodivergence
- Fix Injustice, Not Kids: Justice, not grit. Justice, not growth mindset. Justice, not behavior “management.” Justice, not rearrangement of injustice.
- We Don’t Need Your Mindset Marketing: Education Technology and the New Behaviorism
- Education Access Series: Broken by Design, Sold a Fix, Owed Justice
- Healthcare Access: They don’t take Disability Studies classes. They don’t socialize with us. They don’t listen to us.
- Interaction Access: Opportunity but Not Pressure
- Irie Smial Preserve
- Making Spaces Safer: Bodymind Affirmation and Access Intimacy
- Enable Dignity: The Accommodations for Natural Human Variation Should Be Mutual
- Perceptual Worlds and Sensory Trauma
- Sensory Checklist Gallery
- Neuroception and Sensory Load: Our Complex Sensory Experiences
- ⌨️ Written Communication Is the Great Social Equalizer: Backchannels, Crip Linguistics, and the Text-Based Future
- Learning: Hub and Foundation
- ⚡️🦅🌈 The Feeling: Electric Belonging and Soaring Inclusion
- Building Anti-Ableist Learning Space
- 📚 The Learning: Passion-Based, Human-Centered Learning Compatible With Neurodiversity and the Social Model of Disability
- The Gift: Learning Disabilities Reframed
- ❤️ The Answer: Reframing, Respectful Connection, and the Presumption of Competence
- ♿️ The Need: Space without Behaviorism, Segregation, or Ableism
- Learning Spaces: Cavendish, Belonging, and Human-Centered Education
- Classroom UX: Designing for Pluralism
- The Neurodivergent Design Catalog
- A Pattern Language for Neurodivergent Life
- Designing Cavendish Space
Design and Patterns are large sections — the lists above show the main entries; each links onward to the rest.
AI & Ethics
How we think about artificial intelligence, alignment, and Disability justice.
The Field Guide
How we operate — practical how-tos for coping, communication, events, IT, operations, and more. This is our largest section; each hub below opens onto many pages.
- Communication
- Regulation & Coping
- DEI-AB
- The Neurodivergent Design Field Guide
- Editorial
- Events Guide
- Fundraising
- IT
- Operations
- Orienting
- Venues
- Open the full Field Guide →
Library, Zines & Media
Reading, courses, ebooks, zine walls, music, and the Star Stuff project.
- Library
- Inside the Library
- Browse the full Library →
- Podcast
- Gallery
- Love You Down To Your Star Stuff
- L★S Playlist — Love You Down To Your Star Stuff
- Articles
Why Sheets
Short, open-licensed explainers you can hand to a teacher, clinician, or employer.
Research & Critical Analysis
Evidence, participatory research, and the systems we name and resist.
- 🗂 Facts, Fire, and Feels: Research-Storytelling from the Edges
- Eugenics
- Mental Health and Gun Violence
- The Cult of Compliance and the Policing of the Norm
- Inspiration Exploitation
Community, Mutual Aid & Events
Find your people, get or give support, and gather.
- Community
- ⛑ Mutual Aid: Real Help Against the Onslaught
- Creators
- ❤️↔❤️ Donate
- Volunteer
- Partner with Stimpunks Foundation
- Allies
- Help
- 🌈♿️ Take Them Together: Neurodiversity and Disability Justice
- The Neurodivergent Participation Toolkit
- The Neurodivergent Collaboration Model
- Ask
- Events
- Campfire Learn Together: Expert lecturers. Community wisdom. Zero hierarchy.
- Infodumplings: Bring Your Muchness Down the Rabbit Hole
- Jingle All Our Ways 2023: Benefit to Build Community
- Metal Health Fest: Let’s bolster against stress and pass down bodily survival knowledge.
- Solidarity Session: The radical act of showing up for each other.
- Watering Hole Hangs: Drop in. Space out. Belong here.
- Covenant: Live Your Truth; Shred Some Gnar
Projects
Ongoing initiatives — including the newest additions to the site.
Concepts, Themes & Other Doorways
Thematic hubs and alternate entry points that do not sit inside a single section above. Some are portals into ideas explored more fully elsewhere.
- Bodymind Affirmations
- Bodymind Break
- 📼 Roll Your Own: Bricolage, Punk, and the Neurodivergent Making Tradition
- 🔥 Autistic Burnout: The Cost of Masking and Passing
- The Ecology of Neurodivergent Burnout
- The Neurodivergent Commons
- The Culture of Stimpunks
- The Ecology of Neurodivergent Life
- Assemblages, Ecologies, and Neurodivergent Life
- The Ecology of Neurodivergent Life
- Choosing the Margin: Design is Tested at the Edges
- Screens Are Infrastructure: Gaming, Screen Use, Neurodiversity, and Disability
- 🌈🌈 Neurodiversity and Gender: You Hit So Hard With All the Colors That There Are
- Gender Copia, Bricolage, and Becoming
- Neurodivergence, Gender, and Minority Stress
- Happy Flappy: Let’s Bolster Against Stress and Pass Down Bodily Survival Knowledge
- The Stimpunks Knowledge System
- The Stimpunks Knowledge Ecosystem
- The Neurodivergent Knowledge Garden
- Ocean Waves by Adriel Jeremiah Wool
- Pebble Board
- Pebble Board for the First Quarter of 2024
- Pebble Board for 2025
- Mutual Aid and Human-Centered Learning for Neurodivergent and Disabled People (plain language)
- The Neurodivergent Renaissance
- A Mycelium and a Rhizome
- Burnout & Sensory Safety
- 👋 Our Stims
- Justice & Systems: Name the Power
- Our Technology: Open Source Communication and Indie Ed-Tech
Utility, Contact & Legal
- 📇 Connect
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Privacy Policy
- Disclaimer
- Imprint
- Feeds
- Shop
- Services
- Client Portal
- Communication preferences
- Communication & Interaction Access
- Links
- How to Use Stimpunks
- The Stimpunks Toolkit
- The Methods of Neurodivergent Design
- The Stimpunks Workflow
This map is curated for browsing and updated by hand. For the complete machine-generated index of every published page, see the XML sitemap. For a single term, the Glossary Map is the place to look.
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