What We’re Doing Now
- As we strive to improve and grow our impact, we invite feedback from the community members we’ve had the privilege of supporting. We’d love to hear your thoughts via video submission, written feedback, and any other ways you might share how Stimpunks Foundation has positively impacted your life.
- Your feedback is essential in helping us to express how valuable our work is as we continue to apply for grants and seek donations, so that we can continue helping others.
- These will be shared to our Impact page as Community Feedback, and will serve as references for positive feedback from our community members and followers.
- Please don’t hesitate to reach out to our team email and share your experiences with us.
- Your feedback is essential in helping us to express how valuable our work is as we continue to apply for grants and seek donations, so that we can continue helping others.
- Hosting weekly “Solidarity Sessions” in our Discord community.
- Our Coping Page is consistently being updated with new resources for food assistance, coping tools (such as: the new A.C.T. Tool), and more listings in our service directory.
- Got resources? Please feel free to send them to our team email.
- Got resources? Please feel free to send them to our team email.
- Check out our Web Store for some awesome Stimpunks swag!
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Objectives and Key Results for Q2 2025
Raise $1,700 in funds and apply for 3 grants
- Apply for 3 grants
- Raise $1700 in organic and peer-to-peer donations
- Raise $500 with partners
Host 13 virtual events and 24 public meetings
Develop 2 learning experiences
- Develop Neuroqueer Learning Spaces training
- Develop Map of Monotropic Experiences training
Numbers updated on June 28, 2025.
Objectives and Key Results for Q1 2025
Raise $1,700 in funds and apply for 3 grants
- Apply for 3 grants
- Raise $1700 in organic and peer-to-peer donations
- Raise $500 with partners
Host 19 virtual events and 24 public meetings
- Host 9 Weekly Solidarity Sessions
- Host 9 Weekly Variety Hours
- Host 1 conference
- Host 12 public operations meetings
- Host 12 public editorial meetings
Develop 2 learning experiences
- Develop Neuroqueer Learning Spaces training
- Develop Map of Monotropic Experiences training
Numbers updated on March 31, 2025.
What is a “now page”?
Most websites have a link that says “about”. It goes to a page that tells you something about the background of this person or business. For short, people just call it an “about page”.
Most websites have a link that says “contact”. It goes to a page that tells you how to contact this person or business. For short, people just call it a “contact page”.
So a website with a link that says “now” goes to a page that tells you what this person is focused on at this point in their life. For short, we call it a “now page”.
Next Steps for Our Community
Here are some next steps for our community at Stimpunks:
- Raise funds.
- Raise money to direct into the communities we serve.
- Create ecologies of care.
- Keep people housed, fed, and alive via our aid grants.
- Help people navigate our care systems.
- Provide warm lines and peer respite.
- Defend public education.
- Tell the story: Free, life-changing, and available to everyone.
- Advance progressive education.
- Work with Human Restoration Project, PINE, EALA, Autistic Realms, and others to advance progressive education.
- Continue creating why sheets to assist students, parents, and teachers with their advocacy.
- Advocate for Cavendish Space and Neuroqueer Learning Spaces.
- Tell the story: We’re raising whole children, not Frankenstein children.
- Tell the story: Henry Cavendish, Xerox PARC, and Caves, Campfires, and Watering Holes.
- Support creators.
- Grow our creator grants and bring more creators into our Discord community.
- We will need art and competency networks more than ever.
- Build community.
- Bring people into our Discord community.
- Do online events to bring us together and share knowledge.
- Engage in collaborative niche construction at human scale.
- Grow the rhizome by connecting with other cosmo-local bands of marginalized people.
- We will support each other. We will build our own ecologies of care and our own competency networks. We will build communities and network rhizomatically.
- Participate in research.
- Participatory research that aligns with community priorities and values gives us advocacy ammunition to fight back against regressive practices. Participate in studies.
- Tell stories.
- Help build a progressive storytelling ecosystem to offer an alternative to the right-wing ecosystem.
- “The pro-democracy movement needs to build its own funnel, now. It cannot and should not be a mirror image of the right’s funnel. It should be grounded in truth, not lies, and generosity, not closedness. But it needs to be a total media ecology that can meet people at any level of annoyance, curiosity, irritation, gripe, doubt, with any question — and move them toward a more humane and magnanimous view of the world.” —Anand Giridharadas
- Name the systems of power.
- Defuse resentment.
- Increase our impact.
- Consult our Impact page. Consider the things we measure. How can we make those numbers go up?
4 Pathways
Our next steps travel these 4 pathways.
We Will
- catalyse Stimpunks projects,
- coordinate neurodivergent and disabled peer support,
- document neurodivergent and disabled culture,
- conduct neurodivergent and disabled research,
- develop and deliver education based on lived experiences,
- host events that celebrate neurodivergent and disabled culture.
Problems to Keep in Mind
You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, “How did he do it? He must be a genius!”
—Richard Feynman via “Forte, Tiago. Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential (p. 62). Simon Element / Simon Acumen.”
Feynman’s approach encouraged him to follow his interests wherever they might lead. He posed questions and constantly scanned for solutions to long-standing problems in his reading, conversations, and everyday life. When he found one, he could make a connection that looked to others like a flash of unparalleled brilliance.
Ask yourself, “What are the questions I’ve always been interested in?”
In the spirit of Richard Feynman’s 12 problems, here are some questions to keep in mind as we go about our business:
- How do we raise more funds?
- How do we keep our community safe while including more people?
- How do we set boundaries to protect our mental health without being called performative?
- How do we help people survive the dismantling of healthcare systems and the administrative state?
- How do we increase community engagement in Discord and on social media?
- How do we support our 4 pillars: Mutual Aid, Creator Grants, Learning Space, Open Research?
- How do we resist behaviorism in education and healthcare?
- Who should we add to our board?
What should we add?
Changelog
We publish a monthly changelog.
Stimpunks.org Changelog for November 2025
Our website is a living document that is always changing and growing. Here are some changes we made to the website…
Stimpunks.org Changelog for October 2025
Our website is a living document that is always changing and growing. Here are some changes we made to the website…
Stimpunks.org Changelog for May 2025
Our website is a living document that is always changing and growing. Here are some changes we made to the website…
Newsletter
We publish a monthly newsletter.
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Glossary
We constantly update our glossary.
Latest Terms in the Stimpunks Glossary for March 2025
As we go about our work, we expand our glossary, which is currently at 400 terms in English and 449…
Latest Terms in the Stimpunks Glossary for February 2025
As we go about our work, we expand our glossary, which is currently at 396 terms in English and 431…
Latest Terms in the Stimpunks Glossary for January 2025
As we go about our work, we expand our glossary, which is currently at 388 terms in English and 423…
Feeds
We’re on pretty much all of the social networks, but we are most active and engaged on our Bluesky.
- I (Ryan) was there. Join us. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Stimpunks Co-Creative Director Helen, @autisticrealms.bsky.social, has a chapter in “It Takes All Kinds of Minds: Fostering Neurodivergent Thriving at School”. Read the chapter and check out our website, which is […]
- If you watch our YouTube playlist “Animated Introductions to Autism, ADHD, and Neurodiversity” you’ll come away well-grounded in neurodiversity and neurodivergent ways of being. Featuring short, accessible, tightly-scripted, animated videos. […]
- Changelog: Added an “Over-diagnosis” section to the “Diagnosis” glossary page with selections from “The Fascist Echo in Labour’s “Over-diagnosis” Inquiry”. https://stimpunks.org/glossary/diagnosis/
- Changelog: Added selections from “OSF | Identifying as Autistic Without a Formal Diagnosis: Who Self-Identifies as Autistic and Why?” to “Diagnosis” glossary page. https://stimpunks.org/glossary/diagnosis/
- MacKenzie Scott’s giving philosophy is very aligned with ours. Direct payments with no strings produce best results. Glad to see her validating this style of giving. https://stimpunks.org/philosophy/direct-support-to-individuals/ [contains quote post […]
- “To miss the health element of the current fascist global offensive is to miss a core part of that offensive—we ignore late health fascism at our peril.” 💯 [contains quote […]
- Cosigned. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- We reject neuronormativity and demand the right to live and learn differently. stimpunks.org/manifesto/ https://stimpunks.org/manifesto/
- By becoming a donor to Stimpunks, you help us: – catalyze Stimpunks projects, – coordinate neurodivergent & disabled peer support, – document ND and disabled culture, – conduct ND & […]
You can find the latest feeds for our social networks on our Feeds page.
Pebble Board
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