Tag: neuronormativity
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Map of Monotropic Experiences
This map highlights 20 common aspects of monotropic experience. How many do you experience?
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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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Ordinary tried to fix me. I was a threat to a page in history.
I make the right mistakesAnd I say what I meanSpare me from the mold Spare Me From The Mold by Gossip We are marginalized canaries in a social coalmine and Rawlsian barometers of society’s morality. It is deeply subversive to live proudly despite being living embodiments of our culture’s long standing ethical failings. Our non-compliance is not intended to be…
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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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The Road to Neuronormative Domination: Thorndike won, Dewey lost. Skinner won, Papert lost.
Thorndike won, and Dewey lost. I don’t think you can understand the history of education technology without realizing this either. And I’d propose an addendum to this too: you cannot understand the history of education technology in the United States during the twentieth century – and on into the twenty-first – unless you realize that Seymour…
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A Short Rumination on Our Journey to Neuroqueer Learning Spaces
We fought for the right to learn differently, and lost. The journey was instructive. We found ourselves along the way. We found community among other neurodivergent and disabled people. We found vocabulary, vocabulary like “neurodiversity”, “neurodivergent”, “neurotypical”, and, more recently, “neuroqueer”. …intentionally liberating oneself from the culturally ingrained and enforced performance of neuronormativity can be…
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Weird Pride Day is March 4th 2024
I think being weird is just embracing yourself. Mychal Threets, So much fun talking with Weirdschooling about books, libraries… and th… | TikTok neuronormativity = a set of norms, standards, expectations and ideals that centre a particular way of functioning as the right way to function behaviorism = a psychological theory that would have us…
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Changelog: Mass school refusal among neurodivergent children is an early form of resistance to neuronormativity.
We updated our ‘School-Induced Anxiety’ page with selections from Robert Chapman and “‘Children are holding a mirror up to us’: why are England’s kids refusing to go to school? | Schools | The Guardian”. While we were updating, we broke the page up into sections and added a table of contents. Mass school refusal among…
