Fascinating find: "Findings showed that screen time was significantly associated with anxiety and depression in neurotypical youth; conversely, screen time was not significantly associated with anxiety and depression in autistic youth." (h/t @stimpunks.org!)

We just updated our five-part series: Building Anti-Ableist Learning Space. The Need. The Answer. The Feeling. The Learning. The Gift. Start here: stimpunks.org/learning/bui...

From framework synthesis to glossary depth, Week 20 built the /space/ ecosystem into a citable, interconnected design system — and kept expanding the vocabulary of neurodivergent life. stimpunks.org/2026/05/17/s...

So @fidgetsandfries.bsky.social has a gorgeous and loving new book coming out in January, about a Black autistic boy thriving and making friends while using both a device and a letterboard to communicate. Please pre-order How Do You Spell Belong? today if you can! www.tiffanyhammond.com/hdysb

A PDF of our workbook "Re-Storying Autism", designed to retell the stories you've heard about autism in a more affirming way. neurohubcommunity.org/product/re-s... #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticAuthor #autism #Autistic #AutisticBurnout

From the outside: a non sequitur. From the inside: a logical chain you traveled in seconds. Dolphining is when the ADHD brain dives deep mid-conversation & surfaces somewhere the other person can't follow. The term spread because so many had been waiting for it. stimpunks.org/glossary/dol...

Neuroqueer / Neuroqueering: When Neurodiversity Theory Meets Queer Theory by Bridgette Hamstead Fabulous! bridgettehamstead.substack.com/p/neuroqueer...

Mid-conversation, the ADHD brain dives deep & surfaces somewhere else entirely. From the outside: non sequitur. From the inside: perfectly logical. This is dolphining. If you've had another dolphiner finish your thought chain for you, you know why the term spread. stimpunks.org/glossary/dol...

New blog this week: No Space Is Neutral: Safe Spaces, Imagined Neutrality, and the Work of Belonging autisticrealms.com/no-space-is-...

No agenda. No presenter. No right way to be there. Just lived experience, warm lines, and people who actually get it. Solidarity Sesh is today at 10 AM Central — come as you are. 💜 stimpunks.org/events/solid...

The myth of neutrality doesn't just harm in the therapy room. It harms in every room — the classroom, the healthcare consultation, the workplace, the community space. Our Co-Creative Director Helen Edgar on what it takes to build safer, neuroqueer spaces together: autisticrealms.com/no-space-is-...

Our Care Infrastructure Fund has a $20,000 goal and 5 supporters so far. If Stimpunks' work has mattered to you — the glossary, the pattern library, the community space, the writing — this fund is how we sustain it. Contribute what you can. Share what you can't. givebutter.com/6XYFbX

The iron in your blood was forged in a dying star. This is the baseline of your cosmic belonging. No diagnosis, no deficit model, no exclusionary system can revoke it. L★S stimpunks.org/star-stuff/m...

You are a particular, improbable, once-in-a-cosmos arrangement of atoms. The universe has never made this exact configuration before. It will not make it again. L★S stimpunks.org/star-stuff/m...

The right to learn differently should be a universal human right that's not mediated by a diagnosis. That's not a wish. It's a demand. stimpunks.org/access/educa...

Join us this weekend with @stimpunks.org to find out more: stimpunks.org/2026/05/13/c...

No space is neutral. Exploring minority stress, the Double Empathy Problem, and what it really takes to build safer, neuroqueer spaces together. autisticrealms.com/no-space-is-...

If you've ever left a therapy room feeling more pathologized than seen, our community can attest: that's not a personal failure. That's the system working as designed. This Sunday we're watching Dr. Jennifer Mullan on what it means to actually heal. May 17 | 10AM CT stimpunks.org/2026/05/13/c...

Two of the most important ideas in autism research that every educator should know: Monotropism. The double empathy problem. Nine minutes of video. A changed classroom. stimpunks.org/access/educa... #autistic #education

Infodumplings this Thursday: the troll art of Thomas Dambo — forest giants built from salvaged wood, Solarpunk as practice not aesthetic, and bricolage as ecological argument. 🧌♻️🌲 Thursday, May 14 · 7PM Central stimpunks.org/2026/05/13/i...

"When I was a little girl, I was autistic. And when you're autistic, it's not abuse. It's therapy." That's what compliance-based education does to kids. The Education Access page exists because this must change. stimpunks.org/access/educa...

This is a rich, multileveled text that takes you deep into how to really make classrooms accessible for neurodivergent students . . .

Animal trainers are rejecting behaviorism because it harms animals emotionally and psychologically. What does that say about classrooms that still embrace it? stimpunks.org/access/educa... #neurodiversity #education

Our animations Discovering You're Autistic and Lightbulb Moments: Being Autistic are now also hosted Autism Central YouTube channel too! youtu.be/gSRS9Q2KeZ8?... youtu.be/O9_PRu6oPao?... We are so happy that our work is reaching more people!

Check out all the new books listed by @autisticbooks.bsky.social this year so far! autismbooksbyautisticauthors.com/2026-book-re...

We have a Now page. It's not a polished outcomes report. It's where we actually are — what we're building, what we're not doing, what we're trying to figure out. stimpunks.org/now/

Want to know what Stimpunks is up to right now? We're building a Pattern Library. Submitting a grant. Hosting three weekly sessions in Discord. Helping people navigate healthcare. Adding to the glossary. The full picture is here: stimpunks.org/now/

Want to know what Stimpunks is up to right now? We're building a Pattern Library. Submitting a grant. Hosting three weekly sessions in Discord. Helping people navigate healthcare. Adding to the glossary. The full picture is here: stimpunks.org/now/

Week 19 changelog is up. Five named series. Three education pages becoming one argument. New glossary terms, new Campfire, new Infodumplings. Architecture and surface work, simultaneously. stimpunks.org/2026/05/10/s...

A “moment of obligation” is the instant when you can no longer look away — when your own experience of a broken system makes it impossible to leave the next person to face it alone. stimpunks.org/mission/

School-induced anxiety is one of the defining crises of neurodivergent childhood. It touches nearly every family in our community. These are not children who don’t want to learn. They are children for whom the school environment itself has become unsafe. stimpunks.org/access/educa...

Join me, @stimpunks.org and @neurohubcommunity.org for an Autistic Pride celebration in Neurohub Community 18th June 4pm UK time Celebrating stimming, glimmers and the things that make being Autistic unique! connect.neurohubcommunity.org/events/D30D71

"One of the most profound things we can do is provide autistic people space to just be, so they can follow their internal compass, and live well." From @drmbothapsych.bsky.social's #INSAR2026 talk on autistic people steering autism research. (We are finalizing our INSAR 2026 coverage, stay tuned!)

Dehumanizing practices do not belong in schools. We believe in something different. Our "We Believe" page lays out the six pillars of Stimpunks Learning Space: human-centered, trauma-informed, self-determined, equity literate, open technology, interdisciplinary. stimpunks.org/space/human/

Wonder is an epistemic emotion. Its function is knowledge-seeking. When something doesn't fit your existing framework, wonder is what makes you go looking. It's not decorative. It's structural. It's how we get new knowledge at all. Join us Sunday to discuss. stimpunks.org/2026/05/09/c...

"The burden is placed on the neurodivergent canary not only to detect the toxic gas but also to redesign the mine." — Hardey & Pimblett (2026) That's not a role. That's a tax. stimpunks.org/glossary/can...

The medical model asks: what is wrong with this child? The social model asks: what is wrong with this environment? That shift in question is the difference between a school that tries to normalize neurodivergent students and one that actually includes them. stimpunks.org/access/educa...

Join me & @stimpunks.org 4pm UK time 10th May Campfire: What Makes Life Worth Wondering Watching Helen De Cruz talk about her book Wonderstruck: How Wonder & Awe Shape the Way We Think Discussing what wonder has to do with learning, how we survive & why we’re here. stimpunks.org/2026/05/09/c...

For this Sunday's Campfire Learn Together, we're watching philosopher Helen De Cruz on wonder and awe — what they are, why they matter, and why losing them costs us something real. 10AM CT · online via Discord · all modes welcome stimpunks.org/2026/05/09/c...

Pupils aren't rejecting learning. They're rejecting a setting that makes it impossible for them to learn. We need to change the circumstances. stimpunks.org/access/educa...

Neuro-Affirming Neurodivergent & Disabled Wheel of Life: Reclaiming Flow on Our Own Terms Free download autisticrealms.com/neuro-affirm...

Behaviorism is dead. Despite that, behaviorism won. And neurodivergent and disabled students lost. Our Education Access page traces how we got here — and what it costs. stimpunks.org/access/educa...

We've turned classrooms into a hell for neurodivergence. Not because of bad teachers. Because of bad design, bad ideology, and a century of behaviorism that measures the surface and misses everything underneath. Our Education Access page makes the case. stimpunks.org/access/educa...

I used to write notes with my mom's name to excuse myself all the time. I left to sensory seek to soothe.

Please read and share. 💯 percent this.

Being With People & The Value of Intensive Interaction A personal reflection. autisticrealms.com/being-with-p... #PMLD #PMID #ProfoundAndMultipleLearningDisabilities #IntensiveInteraction

92% of children with significant school attendance difficulties are neurodivergent. 83% are autistic. These aren't children who don't want to learn. They're children for whom the school environment itself has become unsafe. "School refusal" is the wrong frame. stimpunks.org/access/educa...

📣 Infodumplings tomorrow — Thursday, May 7 at 7PM CT Kintsugi and Finding the Gold Within You The gold was always in you. Come find it with us. Reflection questions, bodymind break, open mic. No prep needed. 🔗 stimpunks.org/2026/05/06/i...

Safe Food for autistic people is not about being 'picky': "It wasn’t just that I was picky, though that was true. It was that when I was already in sensory overload, certain foods weren’t safe. I would rather not eat at all." Kari Burroughs Kraakevik at TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2026/05/safe...

Omega hai foleet Warriors & Weirdos. stimpunks.org/philosophy/f...