Tag: sensory management
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Beyond Awareness: Exploring Your Autistic Profile and Identity – Part 1
As an autistic person, I have always been aware of my fellow neurokin. More than aware, acutely aware, a magnetic visceral connection pulling me towards my community. Even as a young child at primary school (unaware of my neurotype) my ‘autdar’ (was very strong and accurate), I instinctively felt the need to be near other…
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The Inclusive Power of the Dimmer Switch
The “Alternative spaces” section of “Multiple Multisensory Rooms: Myth Busting the Magic” offers guidance on creating sensory spaces on any budget. A striking similarity in these books and studies about accommodating the senses is the power of the dimmer switch. One of the most powerful features of a multisensory room is the ability to control…
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Creating Cavendish Space on a Budget
Design for nervous systems, not aesthetics. What Is Cavendish Space? Cavendish Space: psychologically and sensory safe spaces suited to zone work, flow states, intermittent collaboration, and collaborative niche construction. Cavendish Space – Stimpunks Foundation Cavendish Space is a regulation-centered learning environment built around three spatial archetypes: Our advocacy for Cavendish Space and caves, campfires, and…
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Sensory Kit on a Clip
Our sensory kit on a clip consists of: Check out these autistic odes to noise-cancelling headphones. They imply a lot about neurology and how misguided behaviorism is. The thesis that introduced neurodiversity to academia called computers an “essential prosthetic device for autistics“. That they are. A decent set of noise-cancelling headphones is another essential device. I remember my first…
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Changelog: Nature and Multiple Multisensory Rooms
We updated “☀️💪 Offline: Fresh Air, Daylight, and Large Muscle Movement” and “Neuroception and Sensory Load: Our Complex Sensory Experiences” with selections from “Multiple Multisensory Rooms: Myth Busting the Magic” and “Sensory Experiences – Sensory Trust”. One of the most powerful features of a multisensory room is the ability to control the lighting. Multiple Multisensory…
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Stimpunks Guide to the NeurodiVerse Issue #2: Healthcare Access
This issue gathers recent research on healthcare access for autistic people. These studies confirm autistic common knowledge about our healthcare accessibility struggles and how to ameliorate them.
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Autism in Care Settings: Managing Sensory Load
Ann Memmott’s piece on “Useful New Autism Info for Care Settings” lists four great resources on accommodating autism in care settings, including two of our favorites: “It’s Not Rocket Science” and “Experience of Trauma and PTSD Symptoms in Autistic Adults”. This is a list of useful research papers and Commissioned documents that have changed how…
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The Neurodivergent Experience in Josephmooon’s “So Far So Good”
Our own Ronan released an album. Ronan is lyricist for Josephmooon. You can read the story of their distributed collaboration on their blog: josephmooon explained more backstory “How to write a song” Mooonmemories These songs resonate with my autistic, bipolar, and disabled life. I’m super excited to add them to my favorite playlist, Chronic Neurodivergent…
