The right to live in community was never given. It was won. It is being taken — methodically, on every front, by people who would rather count us than house us. stimpunks.org/2026/06/15/c...

The gaming is the solution they found. Banning it removes a coping strategy without addressing what required coping in the first place. Gaming Is Infrastructure: Screens, Neurodiversity, and Disability stimpunks.org/gaming/

Technology interventions designed for students with learning differences show effect sizes of +0.61. The problem isn't technology. It's purposeless technology. And banning gaming removes a coping strategy without addressing what required coping in the first place. stimpunks.org/gaming/

Here, @stimpunks.org summarise and build on Dinah Murray and Mike Lesser's piece for the 1999 online Autism99 conference, exploring why computers can work so well for Autistic people. 27 years on, are digital devices still so well-suited to monotropic processors? stimpunks.org/space/autism...

The screen time panic follows a pattern. Identify a villain. Wage war. Move on. Never address the underlying conditions. The villain changes. The conditions don't. "Adopt without thinking, panic, remove without thinking." stimpunks.org/gaming/

@annmemmott.bsky.social 's research round up for June from @ndconnection.bsky.social Thank you! Autism, Neurodivergence, Support Needs and Inclusion — What’s New in June ndconnection.co.uk/blog/autism-...

StimPunks one of my favorite educational resources for people! Along with the human restoration Project!

Great article with contributions from @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social Traits may become more obvious with age. People can start looking more stressed, more rigid, more insistent, more sensitive, more forgetful or less sociable later in life... and now there is potentially less capacity to mask and hide

Proud to work with @stimpunks.org Ariana Grande's Brighter Days Ahead Foundation is supporting us☀️ Supporting orgs protecting LGBTQ+ rights, mental health access & vulnerable communities. Authenticity is our eternal sunshine; brighter days are built together. Thank you❤️ www.kxan.com/news/local/a...

"Every single ableist stereotype that you’ve heard for your entire life that you’ve never evaluated, that will be the lens through which other people see you " — Imani Barbarin Anti-ableism isn't charity toward others. It's survival work for everyone. ⛑️ stimpunks.org/aid/

We're proud to be fiscal sponsors of Lilypad Library. A children's show written from lived Autistic experience, built around the ARLES framework, made for neurodivergent kids and the adults in their lives. stimpunks.org/2026/05/26/w...

It's really, really nice to see @stimpunks.org and these other organisations getting a boost from Ariana Grande! www.kxan.com/news/local/a...

The Lilypad Library team is integrating our ARLES design method into the format and arc of their show. Attention → Relational → Lived Experience → Environment → Systems. Designing a world where different minds are expected — one episode at a time. stimpunks.org/2026/05/26/w...

Cavendish Space is what happens when environments are designed around attention, regulation, and human variation. stimpunks.org/cavendish/

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. This is one of my latest knee braces! They are available for pre-order alongside other patterns! Which one is your fave? Store: Bibipins.com

We are building access as shared infrastructure. If this work supports you—or people you love—help sustain it. No saviors. No compliance. Just shared care. stimpunks.org/manifesto/fu...

One month left to buy tickets for the Autistic Mental Health Conference (14–16 Aug): all sessions recorded so you won't miss a thing. Plus a full roundup of what's happening at NeuroHub this July news.neurohubcommunity.org/p/neurohub-community-everything-you

One month left to buy tickets for the Autistic Mental Health Conference (14–16 Aug): all sessions recorded! Plus new family support service, a free webinar on Autism & addiction, and a full roundup of what's happening at NeuroHub this July Details: news.neurohubcommunity.org/p/neurohub-c...

Disability support systems are being dismantled on every front. Meanwhile, for every $10 in U.S. grantmaking, only about one penny goes to disability. Thank you @arianagrande and @brighterdaysaheadfdn for seeing us and helping us. stimpunks.org/2026/06/26/a... Art: @rain_mosh

“Brighter Days Ahead Foundation is doing exactly what this moment in the world needs.” stimpunks.org/2026/06/26/a... “Authenticity is our eternal sunshine, and brighter days are built together.”

Punk — We bring the hidden to the front. Progressive — We educate for liberation. Proud — We refuse to disappear. stimpunks.org

Imagine designing a school with these concepts.

Cavendish Space is not only a room layout. It is an ecology of rhythms, transitions, and participation structures. Not just where you are. How you move through time together. stimpunks.org/cavendish/

The idea in the linked post - of a special interests open mic - & the language it uses to describe sharing is... well. It's reshaping my soul. What a beautiful, positive project. Imagining giving people space to just... joyously share. Imagine a world where that's ok.

Gosh! What an honour! I am so excited and proud to be working with such an amazing team at @thrivingautistic.bsky.social & a part of this wonderful community! Thank you to everyone who supports our work & has taken the time to vote. None of what we do would be possible without you!

Hurrah! If you can't make infodumplings tonight, you can play the game for free online here or download your own Penguin Pebbling Game to play with friends autisticrealms.com/penguin-pebb...

Hoarding insight in closed systems is how people get left out. So we don't. Our bookmarks library — updated daily, freely available, default to open. stimpunks.org/library/book...

Tonight at Infodumplings we play Penguin Pebbling — the neuro-affirming card game Helen Edgar & Ryan Boren built around the Five Neurodivergent Love Locutions. No winners. No wrong way to play. 7PM Central, Discord. stimpunks.org/2026/06/25/i...

Find out more: www.brighterdaysaheadfoundation.org

Read our blog: stimpunks.org/star-stuff/e...

Ariana Grande's Brighter Days Ahead Foundation is supporting @stimpunks.org! Their work — trans rights, mental health, grassroots care for communities the world treats as disposable — is our work. Brighter days are not a repair. They are better conditions for light that was always there. LYSS. ★☀️

Ariana Grande's Brighter Days Ahead Foundation is supporting @stimpunks.org! Their work — trans rights, mental health, grassroots care for communities the world treats as disposable — is our work. Brighter days are not a repair. They are better conditions for light that was always there. LYSS. ★☀️

Tonight at Infodumplings we play Penguin Pebbling — the neuro-affirming card game Helen Edgar & Ryan Boren built around the Five Neurodivergent Love Locutions. No winners. No wrong way to play. 7PM Central, Discord. stimpunks.org/2026/06/25/i...

Bricolage is how we work. We build understanding from what's at hand. Nothing too small. Nothing too scattered. Our living bookmarks library — gathered daily from Autistic and neurodivergent communities, researchers, educators, and advocates. Default to open. stimpunks.org/library/book...

The Linda Lindas just signed to Warner and dropped "Burning Out." Good moment to revisit why we built a whole piece around them — punk DIY ethos through a disability lens. We rebuild what you destroy. stimpunks.org/2023/11/15/w...

Research belongs to the people it's about. Our bookmarks library: papers, posts, threads, talks, zines, field reports — gathered from Autistic and neurodivergent communities, updated daily, free to take and use. Community research. In public. In the open. stimpunks.org/library/book...

Mutual aid is not charity. It is not a handout or an act of pity. Disabled people experience poverty at double the rate of nondisabled people. We wait decades for care the state promised. The systems were designed to exhaust and disqualify. We show up for each other anyway. stimpunks.org/aid/

Highlander crossed racial and geographic borders. We cross neurological and embodied ones. The method transfers. Lineage. Forgetting is a tool of white supremacy. Memory is the work. stimpunks.org/space/highla...

Highlander crossed racial and geographic borders. We cross neurological and embodied ones. The method transfers. Lineage. Forgetting is a tool of white supremacy. Memory is the work. stimpunks.org/space/highla...

170,000 Texans on the Medicaid waiver waitlist. Some waiting 20 years. The complexity of the benefits system is not a design failure. Psychological harm has been used deliberately as a technique to deter claimants. This is not a bug. It is the design. stimpunks.org/aid/

Disability systems rely on artificial economies of scarcity. The scarcity is artificial. The cruelty is intentional. The mutual aid is real. stimpunks.org/aid/

The vast majority of philanthropic resources go to well-resourced organizations not accountable to directly impacted communities. Grant applications create temporal lotteries. The buy-in isn't money. It's time. We built our grants to not do this. stimpunks.org/aid/

Poverty is an industry. Direct cash threatens it. stimpunks.org/philosophy/d...

SSI's asset limit is $2,000. It hasn't been updated since 1989. Saving disqualifies you. Working past a threshold disqualifies you. Getting married can disqualify you. This is not a design flaw. It is the design. stimpunks.org/philosophy/d...

Cash reduces homelessness. Cash increases full-time employment. Cash helps people leave domestic violence. Cash funds AAC devices insurance denied. Recipients know what they need. When given the resources to meet those needs, they do. stimpunks.org/philosophy/d...

"Students with disabilities deserve educational systems that are designed around their needs, rights, and opportunities, not administrative restructuring that risks disrupting critical services and protections." (h/t @stimpunks.org)

“The survey findings raise a number of important points adding to our understanding of burnout among disability activists in the UK. We found that burnout, particularly the dimension of exhaustion, is high.” —Adwan-Kamara, 2026 “We exist as friction.” —Liz Jackson journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Poverty is a policy choice. Disabled people are poor because systems are designed to keep us poor. Direct cash bypasses the bureaucracy designed to gatekeep. It trusts people to know their own needs. Broken systems, not broken people. stimpunks.org/philosophy/d...

Person-first language went from etiquette to ableism. Identity-first language connects us with community, culture, and the power to advocate for ourselves. Thinking differently requires speaking differently. stimpunks.org/language/

There's a language gap between self-advocates and the institutions that claim to represent us. The gap between person-first and identity-first isn't etiquette. It's politics. stimpunks.org/language/