Tag: spiky profile

  • Infodumplings: Every Chimera Is Whole

    Infodumplings: Every Chimera Is Whole

    This week Infodumplings meets in The Events Room on Stimpunks.World, and we are talking about chimeras: one creature made out of more than one animal. We get everybody signed up, watch a short video, and make chimeras together. Then the floor is yours: introduce us to your chimera. What is it made of, what is…

  • Infodumplings: Kintsugi and Finding the Gold Within You

    Infodumplings: Kintsugi and Finding the Gold Within You

    For the next edition of Infodumplings: Bring Your Muchness Down the Rabbit Hole, our curator is sharing on kintsugi — the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold or silver lacquer, treating every fracture as part of the vessel’s history rather than a flaw to erase. The more it has broken and been repaired,…

  • Our Mascot: Esmx the Porkypine

    Our Mascot: Esmx the Porkypine

    This adorable bundle of spikes is our official mascot. Esmx evokes the spiky profile of neurodivergent people.

  • Learning Is a Series of Iterations, Mercy Is Necessary to Learner Safety

    Learning is a series of iterations. The Game Has Changed – Cornelius Minor | CTRH! 2023 – YouTube Learning is not linear, we know this. Rather, learning is iterative. The Game Has Changed – Cornelius Minor | CTRH! 2023 – YouTube We can create space for iteration. We can create space for failure and revision.…

  • Try Again: Mercy is Necessary to Learner Safety

    Try Again: Mercy is Necessary to Learner Safety

    “Retesting clearly works, so I give endless chances. If you’re willing to work, there’s always mercy. You can try again.” Craig B. Smith Craig invites students to learn without adding fear to a subject that already creates its own. He recognizes that students who are emotionally distressed—anxious, angry, or depressed—are cognitively impaired and don’t learn…

  • Spiky Profiles, Peripheral Minds, and Evolutionary History

    In that same interview, when he was asked about what would happen to society if autism was eliminated, he said, “That goes to the larger issue that we wrestle with all the time around [artificial intelligence]. Part of what makes us human are [sic] the kinks. They’re the mutations, the outliers, the flaws that create…

  • The Five Neurodivergent Love Languages