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Reframing Systems Pathway

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  1. Reframe Disability and Difference: We’re Going to Rewrite the Narratives

Reframe these states of being that have been labelled deficiencies or pathologies as human differences.

Normal Sucks: Author Jonathan Mooney on How Schools Fail Kids with Learning Differences

In this pathway, we reframe our systems, notably education, healthcare, and aid.

About Learning Pathways

A learning pathway is a route taken by a learner through a range of pages, modules, lessons, and courses to build knowledge progressively.

Pathways don’t need to be traversed in order. Pick what looks interesting. Choose your own adventure.

Why We Reframe

  1. Authenticity Is Our Purest Freedom
  2. Everything that was normally supposed to be hidden was brought to the front.
  3. Learning Pathways: Take a Walk in Our Shoes
  4. Our Story: Challenging the Norm and Changing the Narrative
  5. Take Them Together: Neurodiversity and Disability Justice
  6. Our Umbrella: It Is Time to Celebrate Our Interdependence!
  7. Reframe Disability and Difference: We’re Going to Rewrite the Narratives
  8. Happy Flappy: Let’s Bolster Against Stress and Pass Bodily Survival Knowledge Down
  9. An Encyclopedia of Disability and Difference

Reframe Aid

  1. ⛑ Mutual Aid: Real Help Against the Onslaught
  2. ☂️ Community Care

Reframe Learning

  1. ♿️📚The Need: Anti-Ableist Space for Human-Centered Learning
  2. ❤️ The Answer: Reframing, Respectful Connection, and the Presumption of Competence
  3. ⚡️🦅🌈 The Feeling: Electric Belonging and Soaring Inclusion
  4. 📚 The Learning: Passion-Based, Human-Centered Learning Compatible With Neurodiversity and the Social Model of Disability
  5. The Gift: Learning Disabilities Reframed

Reframe Research

  1. 🗂 Facts, Fire, and Feels: Research-Storytelling from the Edges
  2. Questions for an Industry: Are You Disregarding Harm and Profiting From Our Misery?
  3. Participatory, Emancipatory, Activist Research
  4. Useful Autism Research: Welcome to This Very Important Update

Reframe Services

  1. 🧰✊ Services: Know Our Rights, These Are Our Rights

Reframe Disability and Difference: We’re Going to Rewrite the Narratives

For those who click/tap “Start Here”, we thank you for starting the reframer’s journey. Take it at your own pace.

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We have protests to stage, driven by the fuel of our righteous anger. We have speeches to make, written from the soaring pleas of our individual and collective trauma, and our wildest dreams of joy and freedom and love. We have cultural narratives to rewrite because they really do hate us and they really will kill us, and if we’re going to rewrite the narratives, then there’s no reason to hold ourselves back from our most radical and defiant rewritings. We have autistic children who need us to support them as architects of their own liberation against the schools and clinicians and institutions and police and prosecutors who would crush and destroy them.

We’re going to need our anger and our public celebrations of stimming and our complicated, imperfect, messy selves for this long and hard road, because we need all of us, and all of our tactics and strategies, to keep a movement going and ultimately, to win.

Autistic Hoya — A blog by Lydia X. Z. Brown: The neurodiversity movements needs its shoes off, and fists up.