Stimpunks is created by and for neurodivergent and disabled people. We provide mutual aid, learning opportunities, human-centered research, and living wages for our community.
Authenticity is our purest freedom.
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"I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living."
— Anais Nin
Stimpunks exists so we can survive.
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Psychoanalysis pathologized autism from the start. The 'autism as facehugger' model. The knight-therapist. The child to be rescued from themselves.
What neuroqueering child psychotherapy could look like instead.
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"As long as we're getting killed for our differences / we have to keep living, keep living through it"
— Kae Tempest, I Stand On The Line
Keep resisting.
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Child psychotherapy's founding luminaries wrote about drawing autistic children out of their 'encapsulated shell.' The rescue narrative. The triumphant therapist. The child as patient.
Rowena Mahmud asks: can we do better?
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Tonight's Infodumplings: a Pride show-and-tell, fashion show, and glimmer share. Two rainbows, one room — kicking off Neurodiversity Pride Week inside Pride Month. 7PM Central.
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@autisticrealms.bsky.social @stimpunks.org @jemoyer.bsky.social and anyone else who thinks that electro-shock "deterrence" in institutional setting is a horrific remnant of an all-too-biased and harmful past that has gone overlong for remedy and redress. #STOP_THE_SHOCK 🖖📣
Peering out from the edge of a lake. The water is still, but lapping restlessly. What lies beneath? I am eager to know but alone on the edge of the lake. A hood covers my features. I take a step into…
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Peering out from the edge of a lake. The water is still, but lapping restlessly. What lies beneath? I am eager to know but alone on the edge of the lake. A hood covers my features. I take a step into…
On 'splinter skills': "Often autistic ppl are really very good at things we’re good at. Mostly the skills are the result of putting a lot of work in because we’re interested in it, not that we always have much control over where our interest takes us." @stimpunks.org:
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This is our philosophy of survival. Not the inspirational kind. The real kind — gritty, communal, unfinished. We keep on livin’. Not because systems get fixed or pain disappears. Because we show up…
There is consensus regarding some neurodevelopmental conditions being classed as neurominorities, with a ‘spiky profile’ of executive functions difficulties juxtaposed against neurocognitive strengths...
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SPACE-TIME describes what Autistic experience needs. The Stimpunks Design Method describes how to build it. Cavendish Space names what it looks like when it works.
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'The autism as a pathology is firmly pushed into the beholder's body. What is not recognised is the differential power relationships at play, the sense of autistic bodies being policed.'
Rowena Mahmud on neuroqueering child psychotherapy.
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The social model of disability applied to education:
The problem isn't the neurodivergent student.
The problem is what we've built around them.
We document the harm. We name the mechanism.
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Most environments are not built for neurodivergent and disabled people. Schools, workplaces, and public spaces are designed for a norm that excludes by default — too loud, too crowded, too socially…
Peering out from the edge of a lake. The water is still, but lapping restlessly. What lies beneath? I am eager to know but alone on the edge of the lake. A hood covers my features. I take a step into…
We have autistic children who need us to support them as architects of their own liberation. Neurodiversity is an equity imperative and is critical in shifting the culture of teaching and learning.…
Queer and neurodivergent liberation are entwined. We’re celebrating both at once — because for many of us, the two rainbows are one. Tonight’s Infodumplings lands on the opening night of…
This is our philosophy of survival. Not the inspirational kind. The real kind — gritty, communal, unfinished. We keep on livin’. Not because systems get fixed or pain disappears. Because we show up…
Outrageous! #StopTheShock
“The deadline, pegged to the end of May, has now passed without a verdict, leaving disability rights activists and former recipients of these shocks worried that they will continue.”
This is barbaric and we can’t allow our Autistic & other disabled friends suffer this way
The FDA has missed a self-imposed deadline to ban the use of electrical shock devices in people with intellectual disabilities.
Oh! I found an update from Sam Farmer on his #StopTheShock advocacy
In Feb 2026 they designated H.245 as being subjected to a “study order” which is reportedly a common strategy to kill bills
They want to keep zapping autistic kids when misbehaving & don’t care about the trauma they are causing
it’s me, aslynn
A travesty of justice! Clearly, the powers that be don’t have their priorities straight.
