Understanding the emergence of Autistic and neurodivergent cultures requires leaving behind the God of Normality, and imagining the possibility of de-powered forms of creative collaboration. The life denying metaphors of humans as machines and society as a factory are no match for the big cycle of life, for the love of life that resides in all living beings.
As long as life is framed as a competitive social game failure is guaranteed – because then the suffering of others is simply another great busyness opportunity. A few weeks ago the authors of this article had the wonderful opportunity to hear from from a neurodivergent community in Iceland. We agreed to look for ways of ongoing collaboration.
I could not believe what this father to an autistic son did when the boy got lost in an inflatable obstacle course.
Free printable resource to help you connect to your Core Self and begin to separate your identity from your masks.
Being forced to mask as a matter of existence pushes people into codependency and rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD) and causes them a lifetime of trauma.
This is a NeuroInclusive story for all ages about how Autistic brains work with free printable PDF. Great for teachers share with students!
Calling autism a “hidden disability” is oversimplifying the facts and lived experience of autistic people whose disability is often seen but misinterpreted.
Parents often feel like they’ve got to lose themselves to bond with their Autistic child. The opposite is true, though.
Join Autistic people from all over the world, committed to the de-stigmatisation of Autistic ways of being and other forms of neurodivergence, in support of the development and delivery of education about Autistic culture, the neurodiversity paradigm, and the neurodiversity movement – for medical professionals, by Autistic and otherwise neurodivergent people.
Research has shown that instantly, non-autistic people negatively judge autistic people on first sight. This is a free printable resource for you on thin slice judgements.
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