Inspiration porn. What’s that? It’s a portrayal of people with disabilities as one-dimensional saints who only exist to warm the hearts and open the minds of able-bodied people. Speechless on Twitter: “Not your inspiration porn, thank you very much.” Inspiration porn uses the lives of disabled people to inspire and entertain non-disabled people. For lots…

To not have conversations because they make you uncomfortable is the definition of privilege. Your comfort is not at the center of this discussion. Brené Brown Power can be understood as the privilege of not needing to learn. And what a privilege that is: To be completely wrong, and yet suffer no consequences for it.…

Due both to their ability to denaturalize social norms and to their neurological differences, autistic individuals can offer novel insights into gender as a social process. Examining gender from an autistic perspective highlights some elements as socially constructed that may otherwise seem natural and supports an understanding of gender as fluid and multidimensional. Gender Copia:…

When it comes to human neurodiversity, the dominant paradigm in the world today is what I refer to as the pathology paradigm. The long-term well-being and empowerment of Autistics and members of other neurocognitive minority groups hinges upon our ability to create a paradigm shift – a shift from the pathology paradigm to the neurodiversity paradigm. Such a shift…

She tells of a radical fringe of scientists who are realizing that natural selection isn’t individual, but mutual—that species only survive if they learn to be in community. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds The notion of life as a competitive game found its way into the science of biology by interpreting Darwin’s theory of…

“It was diversity between people which led to human success and it is particularly important as it gives you different specialised roles. “We are arguing that it is the rise of collaborative morality that led to the possibility for widening the diversity of the human personality.” Autism and human evolutionary success Here we argue that…

Noncompliance is a social skill. Noncompliance is one of the most important social skills. Noncompliance skills make it possible to say no, even when others want your right to say no to be entirely hypothetical. Noncompliance skills also make it possible to say yes, and do things you care about, even when others don’t think those things…

If you could redesign society from scratch, what would it look like? How would you distribute wealth and power? Would you make everyone equal or not? How would you define fairness and equality? And — here’s the kicker — what if you had to make those decisions without knowing who you would be in this…

A commonplace book is a central resource or depository for ideas, quotes, anecdotes, observations and information you come across during your life and didactic pursuits. The purpose of the book is to record and organize these gems for later use in your life, in your business, in your writing, speaking or whatever it is that…

A roaming autodidact is a self-motivated, able learner that is simultaneously embedded in technocratic futures and disembedded from place, culture, history, and markets. The roaming autodidact is almost always conceived as western, white, educated and male. As a result of designing for the roaming autodidact, we end up with a platform that understands learners as…

A good library is comprised in large part by books you haven’t read, making it something you can turn to when you don’t know something. He calls it: the Anti-Library. The 5-Step Research Method I Used For Tim Ferriss, Robert Greene, and Tucker Max We read and strategically skim lots of books and research. A lot can be…