Much collaboration fails before it starts.
Not because people don't care. Not because the work isn't good. Because the default assumption built into most working environments is that everyone processes, communicates, and participates the same way. That assumption is wrong, and neurodivergent people pay the highest price for it.
A collaboration manual is one way to change that.
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Lilypad Library is a children's show built on a simple premise: neurodivergent kids deserve to see themselves in stories written by people who actually know what that's like. Creator Kiersten Case draws from lived experience. The show's characters are written by and with neurodivergent people — that's the standard. Nothing About Us Without Us (NAUWU). Stimpunks is proud to serve as their fiscal…
“Nothing about us without us” shouldn’t be read as exclusion. After all, every community needs allies. Instead, it should be understood as a call for more accurate, grounded, and accountable leadership.
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Pryal's book Your Kid Belongs Here pushes hard for putting your neurodivergent kids first when other people try to impose unfair neurotypical expectations on them.
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Most people have a version of safe food, even if they don’t name it that way. For me, it is how I make food possible. It is how I make eating possible.
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CBT is a colonial monoculture that gaslights suffering people into blaming themselves. It must be dismantled.
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To combat double empathy problem fallout for autistics, we need collaboration. Autistic people themselves need to be setting the agenda.
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To combat double empathy problem fallout for autistics, we need collaboration. Autistic people themselves need to be setting the agenda.
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For Autism Acceptance Month (and every month after), a new word for those who’ve outgrown “neurodivergent” and found their body already resisting.
Low on words? The TL;DR at the end is for you.
Content note: This piece names death, violence, and suicidality directly.
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I am not neurodivergent. I am neuroresisting.
I need you to know the difference,…
Meet Neurohaus, the couple-led startup helping global brands appeal to neurodivergent shoppers (and everyone else).
Key terms: Neurodiversity – a fact that there is a diversity of human brains and minds Neurodiversity paradigm – a specific framework stemming from neurodiversity being a natural form of diversity (like biodiversity) and that a ‘healthy’ or ‘normal’ is a social construct. It is a revolutionary way of thinking about being human because it […]
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas may be the foremost authority on women and horror, having written the book (and now documentary!) 1000 Women in Horror. So it's appropriate that the character who made her feel seen is a woman in horror: Angela Bettis as the titular May in (past guest!) Lucky McKee's unforgettable 2002 indie psychological horror film, MAY. After this deep dive into a classic, Jordan has…
Ember Green debunks "profound autism" and anti-neurodiversity, with its cherry-picked numbers and fear-mongering, as "This is about the future of autism care, the way we view our disabled community members, and importantly, who gets to speak."
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Stanford researchers have identified a "gatekeeper" in the brain.
When done well, differential diagnosis can counteract rather than reproduce the power imbalances that have historically led to marginalizing neurodivergent people.
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A Swedish study challenges decades of assumptions about autism and gender.