Our Re-Storying Autism course offers a neuro-affirming framework for families, carers, and professionals supporting Autistic people ✨ 7 modules + workbook ✨ Grounded in Autistic-led knowledge 📘 Workbook available: amzn.eu/d/0938qkqz 🌱 Find out more: neurohubcommunity.org/re-storying-...

Help us hit Base Survival so we can get to Stability. stimpunks.org/fieldguide/f...

Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 13 2026: From Checklists to Patterns Week 13 was about translation. Taking what we know—about access, co-regulation, & communication—and making it actionable. Turning checklists into infrastructure. Turning citations into frameworks. stimpunks.org/2026/03/29/s...

We reject pity, saviorism, and urgency theater. We fund disabled and neurodivergent labor. We build care infrastructure. We name power honestly. Our Fundraising Manifesto: stimpunks.org/manifesto/fu...

Care as infrastructure. Not charity, not kindness, not a nice-to-have. Infrastructure. Like roads. Like water. The reframe is everything.

When you design for everyone, you get an exponent otherwise hidden. Try this. You’ll be glad you did. So will everyone around you, #Leader. #beneficial #professional #interaction #environments

Developing a neurodiversity-affirming group therapy program for autistic adults through co-design Fisher, C. A., Grace, N., Tsang, E., & Pieters, J. (2026). Academia Mental Health and Well-Being, 3(1). doi.org/10.20935/MHe...

Most institutions try to fix people. We redesign environments. The Stimpunks Design Method turns neurodivergent lived experience into practical tools for building spaces where different minds can thrive. stimpunks.org/design/

Autistic Mental Health Conference 2026! Until 31st March 15% off early-bird offer! We will start announcing speakers over the next week or so; please keep watching this space! neurohubcommunity.org/2026-autisti... #autisticmentalhealthconference #ActuallyAutistic #autism #autistic #mentalhealth

If you or someone close has been called a “picky eater,” COLOR TASTE TEXTURE may be right for you! I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide that’s all about finding what works for individual sensory needs. For all ages and cooking ability.

Research increasingly shows that autism is not a single spectrum but a constellation of traits that vary independently. What research calls traits, Stimpunks understands as patterns that emerge through the interaction of: •minds •relationships •environments •systems stimpunks.org/patterns/tra...

Traits are patterns of how bodyminds work. They are not deficits to fix or diagnoses to label people with. They are recurring ways people experience, process, and move through the world. When environments ignore these traits, people struggle. stimpunks.org/patterns/tra...

This is fabulous! Hogenkamp L, Sanghavi D, Natri H. Toward an Emergent Paradigm for Neurodiversity and Health. Autism in Adulthood. 2026;0(0). doi:10.1177/25739581261433443 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Finally. I get to see it in my lifetime. I have said this since 1978. I'm sure someone said it earlier. The pebbles bounce noisily but eventually, everyone notices. Finally. Emergent evolution. REAL. Humans are woefully ignorant. We are part, never apart from this system Earth. Never.

"Emergent neurotype: ...not a fixed category but a recognizable pattern emerging from organism–environment transactions" This paper, in many ways, provides academic validation of what we’re building with our design patterns. Highly recommended. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“What would a neuroqueer pedagogy be?” Find out in @ombretarragnat.bsky.social 's new article (in French) referencing the Neuroqueer Learning Spaces project & Cavendish Space work I have been developing with @stimpunks.org genre-en-cours.education/b8e876ff-236...

Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 12 2026: From Traits to Systems, From Presence to Permission and Regulation stimpunks.org/2026/03/23/s...

Looks fun. As we like to say about stim dancing, "Let’s Bolster Against Stress and Pass Down Bodily Survival Knowledge" stimpunks.org/happy-flappy/

It’s Neurodiversity Celebration Week! Thank you for the ongoing support of my work, which embraces neurodiversity-affirming practice. Neuro-affirming resources, blogs & resources 👉 autisticrealms.com #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek #Neurodiversity #Autistic

This is the difference between diagnosis and design. stimpunks.org/patterns/tra...

Designing a world where different minds are expected. Many iterations later: stimpunks.org/design/

Published “From Traits to Patterns", mapping research from “The autism spectrum isn’t a sliding scale; 39 traits show the complexity” into the Stimpunks pattern language — bridging trait-based models to design, environments, and systems. stimpunks.org/patterns/tra...

The autism spectrum is complicated, per a new graphic of 39 traits: “There is no single trait that defines autism: it encompasses differences in social communication skills, interests, sensory sensitivities, and more. Every person’s profile is unique.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Tool 1: Foundational principles, practical guidelines, & reflection exercises Tool 2: Discussion prompts, planning tools, strategies, & action steps Tool 3: Care plan template Tool 4: Safety plan template Tool 5: Combined care & safety plan summary template Thank you @ndconnection.bsky.social

Fabulous resources from @ndconnection.bsky.social Interactive toolkit: A practical approach to neurodiversity-affirming care and support It brings together five practical tools to support wellbeing, safety, and coordinated, consent-based, relational care: ndconnection.co.uk/resources/p/...

"While interdependence is often framed as a disability issue, even neurotypical individuals who appear self-sufficient rely on social, familial & professional networks. For instance, 1/4 of young U.S. adults co‑reside with parents." @neuroscientist.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Understand difference. Design better worlds. Stimpunks exists to study how neurodivergent bodyminds work, expose where systems fail them, and build better environments where difference is not merely tolerated but expected and celebrated. stimpunks.org

Over the past several weeks, we have been building a large set of pages, maps, and design tools. In Week 11, those pieces came together into something much bigger: a coherent knowledge system for understanding and designing neurodivergent environments. stimpunks.org/2026/03/15/s...

Autistic Burnout Recovery as Ecological Re-assembly (Part 3) morerealms.com/autistic-bur...

When the Ecology Fractures: Monotropism and Autistic Burnout (Part 2) morerealms.com/when-the-eco...

Re-worlding Neurodiversity: Monotropism, Ecological Belonging and Neuroqueer Futures (Part 1) morerealms.com/re-worlding-...

A guide to neurodivergence-informed design, with monotropism as an integral consideration, from @stimpunks.org. #UDL #UniversalDesign #DesignThinking stimpunks.org/design/

Get Help → stimpunks.org/help/ Start Here → stimpunks.org/start-here/ Support Care Infrastructure → stimpunks.org/give/

Neurodivergent Design as a Discipline Neurodivergent design is the study and practice of shaping environments around the diversity of human minds. stimpunks.org/discipline/

Also co-signed. The moment you start manipulating classical conditioning to sabotage and force assimilation upon mammals, you have entered radical behaviorism, which *is* abusive, consent-violating, and gaslighting, at least.

I need people to understand that Paralympians are just as elite as Olympians.

Bluntly: Frith's entire career was a waste of time that did more harm than good. We don't need more scientism and epistemic injustice. stimpunks.org/2023/11/22/o...

Uta Frith, a foundational autism researcher, recently said that the autism spectrum has "lost its meaning." She couldn't be more wrong. "The spectrum concept has helped to humanize autistic people," according to Anne Borden King's response, at TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2026/03/resp... #autism

Co-signed. stimpunks.org/why/behavior...

ABA is Neurodivergent Conversion Therapy… it’s forced assimilation that causes self-abandonment trauma, loss of identity, and can leave us vulnerable to coercive control and abuse in adulthood… it’s trash…. Abusive trash… 🗑️

Building Neurodivergent-Affirming Cultures of Regulation: Reflections from a Cavendish Space Workshop At the heart of Cavendish Space is a simple but profound question: do we feel safe with ourselves, and do we feel safe with others? stimpunks.org/2026/03/05/b...

"...all these attempts at Windows of Safety can’t be done alone, ... Autistics need not only to protect one another, which we do as fiercely as possible, but we need our allies, too, to help us create sanctuary" Let's practice niche construction & build Cavendish Space stimpunks.org/glossary/cav...

On the event of Weird Pride Day... a modest proposal... open.substack.com/pub/julialee...

Full Paper here: Transitioning in and out of Autistic Flow: A Qualitative Study Presenting a Non-Pathologising Approach to Autistic Well-Being and Conceptualising Autistic Ways of Being in Clinical and Therapeutic Settings Wain et al 2026 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A wonderful piece by @julialeebarclay.bsky.social about @weirdpride.day and 'Maybe what we really need is a Window of Safety.....' julialeebarclaymorton.substack.com/p/maybe-what...

Weird Pride is a practice of becoming. A feral devotion to staying alive as ourselves in a world that keeps trying to make us something else autisticrealms.com/weird-pride-... Free Tickets to @ndhumanities.bsky.social More Than Neurodiversity Event Wed 4th March www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiver...

'Monstrous Pride' with @fergus.oolong.co.uk, @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social, @kikutowne.bsky.social, Nat Paterson & Sumita Unjumbled premières at 6pm GMT (10am PST) tomorrow - in time to give a bit of a break before the Lightning Talks hosted by @amase.org.uk + @stimpunks.org. youtu.be/0KjgcBFYhAQ?...

New study highlights the day-to-day importance of autistic flow Work by Daniella Wain and colleagues details a non-pathologising view of flow states in autistic individuals, and how they maintain wellbeing by By Emily Reynolds 03 March 2026 www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...

We have more events happening for this year's Weird Pride Day (Wednesday) than we've ever had before. @stimpunks.org and @amase.org.uk are co-hosting a round of Lightning Talks at noon PST/8pm GMT on the day, where anyone can talk for up to seven minutes on a weirdness-related theme.

Weird Pride is a practice of becoming. A refusal to shrink. A quiet, feral devotion to staying alive as ourselves in a world that keeps trying to make us something else Co-Authored with @neurohubcommunity.org for @weirdpride.bsky.social autisticrealms.com/weird-pride-... #neuroqueer #liminalspaces