The forces of neuronormativity feel overwhelming in this age of mass behaviorism and unvarnished eugenics.

…mass neurodivergent disablement and constant, widespread anxiety, panic, depression, and mental illness, combined with systemic discrimination of neurodivergent people, is a problem specific to the current historical era. Hegemonic neuronormative domination, in other words, is a key problem of our time.

Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism by Robert Chapman

Against that tide, we embrace our weird potentials. We neuroqueer the social world.

In line with a disability justice approach, one of the more positive recent developments is the theory and praxis of neuroqueering. Stemming from the work of Nick Walker and Remi Yergeau, neuroqueering focuses on embracing weird potentials within one’s neurocognitive space, and turning everyday comportment and behaviour into forms of resistance. This has provided a new tool for combatting neuronormativity from within the constraints imposed by history and current material conditions. By queering the social world, new possibilities are carved out for the future, helping us not just challenge aspects of the current order but to start collectively imagining what a different world could be like.

Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism by Robert Chapman

The First Rule of Punk: Be Yourself

Our Second Rule of Punk: Reframe

When we reframe, we perceive others such that they too can be themselves.

I make the right mistakes
And I say what I mean

Spare me from the mold

Because we′re standing in the way of control
We will live our lives

Hey girlfriend
I got a proposition, goes something like this
Dare ya to do what you want
Dare ya to be who you will
Dare ya to cry right out loud
"You get so emotional, baby"

Double dare ya, double dare ya

Double Dare Ya by Bikini Kill