Tag: stimming
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Free The Stim: Exploring Stimming For Physically Disabled People
In this blog I aim to explore the barriers to stimming for physically disabled people and why the limitations of our bodies should not inhibit our expression.
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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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Punk Is Autistic
The culture of punk is, at its core, authenticity without apology—and that’s exactly what autistic people desire: spaces and cultures where they can be their true selves without the need to mask or conform.
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Sensate Sensory Tools Student Start-Up Discovery
Sensate is a student lead start-up specializing in providing solutions for neurodivergence and anxiety. Creating discreet fidget tools that attach to workplace items. Our products are designed to ease your workspace experience, offering an outlet for fidgeting that promotes concentration and relaxation. Sensate Student Start-Up Discovery We recently met the folks at Sensate Sensory Tools…
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The Sensory Hell of Showering
I really hate showering. It’s such a chaotic thing to find yourself in. AURORA, LIVE WITH AURORA: FOR THE METAL PEOPLE – YouTube AURORA gets it. Showering is overwhelming, especially the transitions. It can be sensory hell. Sensory Hell is the opposite of something being stimmy. It is utterly and totally unbearable. Maybe you’re thinking…
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CHAMPS and the Compliance Classroom
I wrote this in 2016 after witnessing a CHAMPS and SLANT classroom. My stomach dropped when I saw CHAMPS at our elementary school. “Eyes front, knees front, closed mouth” leapt off the wall and rose from memory. I was in school in the 1970s and 80s. Some teachers were really into table readiness and proper…
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May 2022, so far, at Stimpunks: New Pages for the Website
We started a Research page that opens with a spicy assessment of the status quo of autism studies, “Facts, Fire, and Feels: Research-Storytelling from the Edges“. We started an Access page. There’s a subpage dedicated to Healthcare Access. There’s a subpage dedicated to Education Access. There’s a page for Interaction Access. And there’s a page…
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Inclusive Meetings, Classes, and Presentations with Access Notes, Bodymind Affirmations, and Small Changes
I’ve noticed a trend among neurodivergent and disabled speakers, notably Lydia X. Z. Brown and Jonathan Mooney, of prefacing their presentations with an access note and a bodymind affirmation. They encourage people, be it in an auditorium or a group video chat, to move around and get comfortable. I believe we should all move in…
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The Importance of Stimming as an Adaptive Coping Mechanism
Autistic adults highlighted the importance of stimming as an adaptive mechanism that helps them to soothe or communicate intense emotions or thoughts and thus objected to treatment that aims to eliminate the behaviour. Furthermore, more recent theories have suggested that stimming may provide familiar and reliable self-generated feedback in response to difficulties with unpredictable, overwhelming…