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FREE training and resources: Neuroqueer Learning Spaces
Created by @Stimpunks & @AutisticRealms
Let's reimagine Education for All
#Neurodiversity…

https://autisticrealms.com/neuroqueer-learning-spaces-free-training-for-reimagining-education/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social

A great collaborative project with @autisticrealms.bsky.social inspired by @dr-nicky.bsky.social 's Neuroqueer Theory
We are delighted to offer this free open-source training and accompanying resources for the community - Neuroqueer Learning Spaces: Reimagining Education
#NeuroqueerLearningSpaces

Donate to Help a Mom Get a Car for Her Daughter with Autism Level 3., organized by Anumaat Kahina My name is AnuMaat Kahina Jones. I am a single mother, full-t… Anumaat Kahina needs your support for Help a Mom Get a Car for Her Daughter with Autism Level 3.

AnuMaat Kahina Jones is a single mother, full-time caregiver, and advocate for her beautiful daughter, Kherisheta Nefer Kahina, who was recently diagnosed with Autism.

Please consider donating if you are able, so we can get this family a car and improve their daily life.

gofund.me/c9b5f5a1

🌈 Authenticity Is Our Purest Freedom Authenticity is our purest freedom. Stimpunks combines “stimming” + “punks” to evoke open and proud stimming, resistance to normalization, and the DIY culture of punk, disabled, and neurodivergent com...

💡 What is Stimpunks? Meet an organisation and movement rooted in authenticity, interdependence, and neurodivergent-led design.

#StimpunksSays: “Authenticity is our purest freedom.”

Discover more: stimpunks.org

🌈 Authenticity Is Our Purest Freedom Authenticity is our purest freedom. Stimpunks combines “stimming” + “punks” to evoke open and proud stimming, resistance to normalization, and the DIY culture of punk, disabled, and neurodivergent com...

💡 What is Stimpunks? Meet an organisation and movement rooted in authenticity, interdependence, and neurodivergent-led design.

#StimpunksSays: “Authenticity is our purest freedom.”

Discover more: stimpunks.org

Important paper on autistic communication, backing up much of what we have been saying about monotropic communication (Subtheme 1.2 here): "Many contributors preferred, or found it easier, to attend to one channel of communication over others (e.g., tone of voice) suggesting monotropic processing"

Glimmers: Autistic Joy and Monotropism | Autistic Realms Glimmers are small, powerful moments of Autistic joy that emerge when we’re deeply immersed in what matters to us. Learn how monotropism & flow create s ...

✨ What Are Glimmers? ✨
Glimmers are small, powerful moments of Autistic joy that emerge when we’re deeply immersed in what matters to us.
🌱 Discover how monotropism & flow create space for joy in an often overwhelming world. 💫

Find out more: autisticrealms.com/glimmers-aut...

Join a Community That Understands Thriving Autistic is not just an organisation; it's a community that embraces the full spectrum of Autistic experiences, recognising both the strengths and challenges. We invite Autistic adults over 1...

🌱 Looking to connect, grow, and make a difference?

Join Thriving Autistic — a global neurodivergent-led nonprofit centring Autistic voices in advocacy, research, and community support. 💫

Become a member today: www.thrivingautistic.org/become-a-mem...

#AutisticAdults #Neurodiversity

Image of the book cover (scraps of photos, with the title 'Someone Like Me', edited by Clem Bastow & Jo Case, subtitled 'an anthology of non-fiction by autistic writers'). Image also shows the release date, 25/09/2025, and says 'PRE-ORDER NOW'.

'With new contributions from... Fergus Murray Ivy Lin Julie Farrell Lucy Rose Naoise Dolan Sarah Cook'

Really excited to have a chapter in the UK edition of Someone Like Me, an anthology of writing by autistic women and gender minorities (me being nonbinary/genderqueer).

My chapter is titled 'Growing up with Monotropism and Weird Pride'.

The book is out 2025-09-25.
vervebooks.co.uk/bookpage.php...

I'm in this!

I wrote the opening chapter, What Autistic-Led Theories Mean for Education, with @safriedman.bsky.social.

It's priced for university libraries, unfortunately, but hopefully at least a few people will read it! If you're in academia, please ask your library to get a copy.

Sensory overwhelm gets all the attention.

But let’s talk about sensory joy.

The texture that makes your whole body exhale.

The sound that loops in your brain like a sacred chant.

The color that fills your chest with calm.

The way a warm drink feels like coming home.

Disability communities have so much to teach the world about community & resistance.

About creativity, love, & anger. About power, justice, & politics. About acceptance & change.

I wish more of you would listen to, learn from, and collaborate with us.

The world would be better for it.

If anyone reading this doesn't have @stimpunks.org on their radar, definitely connect with them!

There’s nothing wrong with you - Autistic Self Advocacy Network Written by Jada Thompson for the Autistic Self Advocacy Network ⁂ Growing up as an autistic individual, I went through a lot of hardships. I was often pushed aside, dismissed, misunderstood – I felt l...

"Society may tell you that carrying a plush is “childish” or watching Disney movies makes you “immature,” but it doesn’t; it makes you human. Your humanity is joy. Even with all the hardships & struggles, your autistic and disabled body is an act of resistance."

autisticadvocacy.org/2025/07/ther...

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.

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.

stimpunks.org/2025/07/25/f...

And a special thank you to this year's sponsors: Learning InspirED @stimpunks.org @teacherpowered.bsky.social @whatschoolcouldbe.bsky.social @irasocol.bsky.social & @pammoran1.bsky.social (Socol Moran Partners) KMS Intercultural Education Lab for New Teaching

And a special thank you to this year's sponsors 🙌:

Learning InspirED
@stimpunks.org
@teacherpowered.bsky.social
@whatschoolcouldbe.bsky.social
@irasocol.bsky.social & @pammoran1.bsky.social (Socol Moran Partners)
KMS Intercultural Education
Lab for New Teaching

Freedom is not freedom without care. Freedom is not freedom without care. Freedom requires care because freedom is not just a right—it is also a responsibility.

There is no freedom without care. Or as @stimpunks.org writes: “Freedom is not freedom without care.”

stimpunks.org/philosophy/f...

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Explore ethodivergent hearth building as a neuroqueer, relational practice of care, kinship, and more-than-human community with Autistic Realms &…

https://autisticrealms.com/ethodivergent-hearth-building-a-relational-neuroqueering-community-practice/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social

🌈 Authenticity Is Our Purest Freedom Authenticity is our purest freedom. Stimpunks combines “stimming” + “punks” to evoke open and proud stimming, resistance to normalization, and the DIY culture of punk, disabled, and neurodivergent…

I (Ryan) added three songs from Kae Tempest’s latest album to our front page, because I need them to be there to cope.

stimpunks.org

This was such a great opportunity to chat with Nick and @humanrestorationproject.org
Super work all round with fabulous people making a difference for disabled and neurodivergent communities
Thank you - honoured to know and work with you all :)

Indeed, & once again one of my favourite papers of the year comes to mind from @davidjackson-perry.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

& the importance of community voices @drmbothapsych.bsky.social
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35318862/

My thoughts:
autisticrealms.com/autistic-pri...

“We present the UK as a case study of systemic educational failure. We explore internal mechanisms as neuro-normative epistemic injustices which create the conditions for school anxiety. We bring together holistic insight grounded in diverse lived experiences…”

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Epistemic Injustice Epistemic injustice refers to harms that relate specifically to our status as epistemic agents, whereby our status as knowers, interpreters, and providers of information, is unduly diminished or…

Our epistemic injustice sensitivity is battered and overwhelmed these days.

epistemic injustice = where our status as knowers, interpreters, and providers of information, is unduly diminished or stifled

stimpunks.org/glossary/epi...
stimpunks.org/glossary/jus...

@stimpunks.org has good resources on alternatives to ABA:

stimpunks.org/why/alternat...

Also recommend the resources at @julierob-tndc.bsky.social’s
Therapist Neurodiversity Collective:

therapistndc.org

Neuroqueer Learning Spaces: Free Training for Reimagining Education In mainstream classrooms across the globe, neurodivergent children and their families are continually navigating and battling through systems not designed with them in mind. Our Neuroqueer Learning Sp...

✨ Reimagining education through a neuroqueering lens with @autisticrealms.bsky.social & @stimpunks.org

Neuroqueer Learning Spaces is a free, open-source training for creating flexible, embodied, radically inclusive learning.

Start here 👉 stimpunks.org/library/cour...

Our latest episode is a conversation with @ryanboren.bsky.social, Chelsea, Norah, & @autisticrealms.bsky.social about the awesomeness that is @stimpunks.org and DIY, mutual aid, & human-centered learning for neurodivergent & disabled people! 🤘

www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/diy... #EduSky

In a World That Values Neuronormativity Kindness Is Punk Overlaid on a pink heart backed by a spiky circle evoking the spiky profiles of neurodivergent people and the mohawks of punk rockers

The forces of neuronormativity feel overwhelming in this age of mass behaviorism and unvarnished eugenics.

Against that tide, we embrace our weird potentials. We neuroqueer the social world.

In a World That Values Neuronormativity Kindness Is Punk

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In a World That Values Neuronormativity Kindness Is Punk Overlaid on a pink heart backed by a spiky circle evoking the spiky profiles of neurodivergent people and the mohawks of punk rockers

The forces of neuronormativity feel overwhelming in this age of mass behaviorism and unvarnished eugenics.

Against that tide, we embrace our weird potentials. We neuroqueer the social world.

In a World That Values Neuronormativity Kindness Is Punk

stimpunks.org

Why PBS is harmful for Autistic and Neurodivergent young people (Part 1) — Neurodiverse Connection Today we’re joined by guest contributor, Helen Edgar , Founder of Autistic Realms , a platform for neurodiversity-affirming education, training, and community resources. In Part 1 of this blog for o...

Delighted to support Neurodiverse Connection in their new campaign ‘AGAINST PBS & ABA’.

In part 1 of this blog I explore the harmful impact PBS can have on Neurodivergent young people in educational settings.

Follow for part 2 published Friday 27th June!

ndconnection.co.uk/blog/why-pbs...

Neuro-Normative Epistemic Injustice – Consequences for the UK Education Crisis and School Anxiety - Emmie Fisher, Keren MacLennan, Sinéad Mullally, Jacqui Rodgers, 2025 The UK education system is failing to meet needs, leading to an attendance and school anxiety crisis. However, the system faults those disproportionately and mo...

Our brand new paper, led by our incredible PhD student Emmie, has just been published: 'Neuro-Normative Epistemic Injustice – Consequences for the UK Education Crisis and School Anxiety'.

@bathcaar.bsky.social @psychologybath.bsky.social @uniofbath.bsky.social

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