Tag: neurodiversity
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Animated Introductions to Autism, ADHD, and Neurodiversity
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.
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The Incredible Inconvenience of the Neurodivergent to the “Science of Learning”: You’ll Never See Us Through Your Complexity Controls
Neurodivergent people are treated as noise to be filtered out in most studies supporting the “science of learning”. We are discounted as outliers. Our needs and ways of being are deemed too inconvenient to consider. So, the vast majority of studies just ignore us.
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One Size Fits All? A story about the education system.
Zoe Williams is a late identified autistic parent, who writes about autistic identity and culture. Find her on Medium and Mastodon. Imagine that one day you decide to go clothes shopping. You go into a clothes shop and realise that the shop only sells one item of clothing, in one size. Let’s say it’s a…
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Classroom Conflicts: An Autistic Student’s Classroom Challenges
For autistic students, whose sensory sensitivities, communication styles, and learning requirements differ from those of their neurotypical peers, the mainstream classroom can be an overwhelming environment. Many educators often lack the awareness, sensitivity or training required to identify and support autistic students effectively.
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Design Challenge: Neurodiversity Punk Hedgehog Mascot Inspired by Wapuu
Community artists, let’s make some Neurodiversity Hedgehog Mascots Inspired by Wapuu.
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Empire of Normality: An Important Book Necessary to Our Times
“Empire of Normality” by Robert Chapman is an important book necessary to our times. We live in an age of mass behaviorism, unvarnished eugenics, and neuronormative domination. “Empire of Normality” explains how we got here. …mass neurodivergent disablement and constant, widespread anxiety, panic, depression, and mental illness, combined with systemic discrimination of neurodivergent people, is…
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Disability Inclusion Fund Grant Proposal
We recently applied for the “Disability Inclusion Fund Grant” and thought we’d share our answers to their questions. Questions Guiding Values All funding will be aligned with the Disability Inclusion Fund’s guiding values: Participation: Movement funding is accountable to the disability justice movement. Those most impacted by injustice/exclusion should be involved in strategies to advance…
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🌈🌈 We’re A Double Rainbow All the Way
Given the entwined nature of queer liberation and neurodivergent liberation, I’ll take this opportunity to remind you that Gwen Nelson, the original creator of Autistic Pride Day, is a trans woman. Nick Walker on Twitter Today, June 18th, is Autistic Pride Day, which was created by a trans woman. Queer and neurodivergent liberation are entwined.…
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Is there a version?
Is there a version? [This is adapted from a blog post of the same name available online at http://theeverythingiknow.substack.com. The blog is subscriber-only, but subscriptions are free.] During the first UK-wide coronavirus lockdown, there was a television programme called Staged. It involved David Tennant and Michael Sheen, amongst others, playing fictionalised versions of themselves, talking to each…
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Picnic at the Zoo!
Who: Members of the Dripping Springs Friendship Club What: picnic lunch and zoo visit (bring your lunch/drink) They do not have water fountains, but do sell bottled water in the gift shop if needed. When: Friday ~ May 3, 2024 starting @ 12:30 PM Where: Austin Zoo ~ 10808 Rawhide Trail Austin, TX 78736 Why:…
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Neuroqueering Learning Spaces: An Exploration
This piece is by Helen Edgar of Autistic Realms. “Intentionally liberating oneself from the culturally ingrained and enforced performance of neuronormativity can be thought of as neuroqueering” Walker, 2021 neuronormativity = a set of norms, standards, expectations and ideals that centre a particular way of functioning as the ‘right way’ to be neuroqueer = subvert, defy, disrupt,…
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Call for Submissions: Neuroqueer Learning Spaces
Open Invite: Neuroqueer Learning Spaces We’re requesting community writing and art about neuroqueering education, play, and learning spaces. Ryan of Stimpunks and Helen of Autistic Realms are collaborating on a project. Any community work will be shared on the Stimpunks website and some work may be included in our chapter submission for Nick Walker’s new…
