Stimpunks is building a shared language for disability, neurodivergence, access, and power.
This is not a medical dictionary. It’s a survival lexicon. A community vocabulary. A way to name what’s happening.
Most Read Glossary Pages (Start Here)
Identity and Language
- Autistic
- Kinetic Cognitive Style
- Neurotype
- Neurospicy
- Neuroqueer
- Autigender
- Gendervague
- Cripple Punk
- Crip
- Nonspeaking
- ActuallyAutistic
- Autistic Language Hypothesis
- Neurominority
- Autistic Rhizome
Attention and Cognition
Body and Sensory Experience
- Bodymind
- Tendril Theory
- Object Permanence
- Meerkat Mode
- Glimmers
- Stimming
- Deep Pressure
- Sensory Trauma
- Neuroception
- Chronic Constellation
Everyday Neurodivergent Realities
- Autistic Joy
- Nesting
- Situational Mutism
- Parallel Play
- Samefood
- Object Personification
- Body Doubling
- Caves, Campfires, and Watering Holes
- Special Interest
- Limerence
- Support Swapping
- Canary
- Burrito Test
Burnout, Trauma, Nervous Systems
- Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
- Autistic Burnout
- Crip Time
- Alexithymia
- Meltdown
- Autistic Polling
- Systems Generated Trauma
- Moral Injury
- School-Induced Anxiety
Access, Dignity, and Mutuality
- Access Intimacy
- Biopsychosocial Model
- Self-Determination Theory
- Co-regulation
- ADHD Tax
- Crip Tax
- Administrative Burden
- Relationship Accommodations
- Asynchronous Communication
- Chosen Family
- Care Web
- Interdependence
- Lily Pads
Power, Ableism, and Compliance
- Ableism
- Double Empathy Problem
- Behaviorism
- Pathology Paradigm
- Technoableism
- Epistemic Injustice
- R-Word
- Quiet Hands
- Childism
- DisCrit
- Neurocosmopolitanism
- Justice Sensitivity
- Radical Inclusivity
If you can name it, you can challenge it. If you can share it, you can survive it together.
