Because autistic culture is a unique phenomenon, it is constantly in the process of exploring itself, defining itself, and generating itself. Unlike holistic (non-autistic) culture, it is deeply relational. For many autistic people there is no strict boundary between self and environment, or self and other. We tend not to see things in hierarchies, but in relational ways that are in constant flux. “Neuro-Holographic” is an emergent idea that our group has embraced. Neuro-Holographic, as a concept here, refers to the idea that every small bit of energy and information, whether an atom or the universe, reflects every other part of itself in a seamless and meaningful way.
This has led to the awareness that, despite common misconceptions, we are very much empathetically connected to the things around us. Because our sensing mechanisms are super sensitive and often synesthetic (cross-sensing — for example, tasting colors or seeing sound) we often feel a part of the things around us. We don’t tend to see in hierarchies, but rather in “holograms,” as described. Always looking for connecting patterns in an overwhelming ocean of sensory, emotional, and energetic information, our relational culture focuses on how things go together and function. Because of these innate talents, insights, and a tendency toward invention, out of the box thinking, and an enthusiasm for combining patterns, autistic/Neuro-Holographic people have been responsible for many important developments in the larger cultures in which they find themselves. Being extraordinarily sensitive and seeing things in new ways is foundational to autistic culture.
Cultural Autism Studies at Yale – A meeting place for those interested in the exploration, identification, generation and preservation of autistic culture.
Unable to see shades of lived nuance and constitutionally lacking organs of exquisite sensitivity, the truncated, neurotypical gaze rakes over the bodies of (neuro-holographic) life — whether designated autistic, animal, any other undesirable caste, or nature itself — they assess them only in terms of cost, threats, or utility. They can’t or won’t see them.
Modern, connectively truncated influence has driven an obsession with homogeneity and increasingly raised a maniacal rejection of inward and outward difference to a hellish art form. The lives (and deaths) of sentient, (neuro-holograhpic) beings is foundational to daily life and underscores the danger of using gifts evolutionarily tooled for a better, more compassionate future are pressed into service for the structure we were put here to change.
(Dawn Prince Hughes, 2023) *neuro-holographic = our edits.
The word neuro-holographic has emerged from within the neurodivergent community, “a buried treasure of our culture that used many hands to lift up into the light”. As Dawn suggested, ‘We belong to the term, rather than the term belonging to us’. When Dawn, Ryan and I discussed the term neuro-holographic, there was an instant shared resonance and affinity with the word, we were all on the same plane, the same plateau. We were all in tune with each other, sharing a rhythm and way of being. A sense of togetherness, belonging and shared intentions to work against harmful neuronormative practices has powerful transformative neuroqueer possibility. It open up spaces within our souls and society to make a difference.
Neuro-Holographic Thoughts. To be neuro-holograpic, to resonate… | by MoreRealms | Jun, 2024 | Medium
I have intentionally used a hyphen between the words neuro and holographic to represent the in-between of neurology and holographic ways of being and experiencing the world, a pause for tuning in, an embodiment, a space of Ma. I have resisted using the word “neuro-holographism as that could imply another new theory or concept. Neuro-holographic is not a concept; rather I feel like it IS the plane of immanence on which neuroqueer theory breathes and lives; it is the ‘wave that rolls and unrolls’ other concepts (Deleuze & Guattari, What is Philosophy, 1994, p36). To resonate with the term neuro-holographic is to resonate as souls, with your core self, perhaps with your spirit.
Neuro-Holographic Thoughts. To be neuro-holograpic, to resonate… | by MoreRealms | Jun, 2024 | Medium
Perhaps the beauty lies in the way that the word neuro-holographic can only be felt or experienced in a luminescent, undefinable iridescent way, which creates a holographic energy of light and vibration that expands and ripples beyond our singular bodyminds to connect with other bodyminds, it creates multiplicity from the friction between us as humans. Connecting with others enables an expansion of our community rhizomes in ways that are exciting and full of radical inclusive neuroqueer possibilities.
Neuro-Holographic Thoughts. To be neuro-holograpic, to resonate… | by MoreRealms | Jun, 2024 | Medium
Being on the edge and living in the liminal means you have a different perspective than the majority, and your bodymind will resonate differently. This is because your whole way of being and experiencing the world is different from others, and your energy will be different. Neuro-holographic people have strong open sensory gates. In our communities, we are finding neuro-holographic people are being drawn together; their holotropic energy fields seem to align with others of a similar frequency, creating connections together in all different spaces across the globe in weird and beautiful ways.
Quantum Neuro-Holographic Thoughts from a Liminal Space | by MoreRealms | Medium
