@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 🖖📣
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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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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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Stimpunks Foundation
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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Five series. One through-line.
🏫 Building Anti-Ableist Learning Space
♿ Enable Dignity
📚 Education Access
🔬 Facts, Fire, and Feels
🐇 Learning Space
We follow problems all the way through.
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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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Every series we build asks the same question:
Who designed this system? Who does it serve? Who does it harm? And who profits from calling that harm inevitable?
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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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Stimpunks Foundation
Child psychotherapy has the potential to offer a nuanced, multidimensional perspective on children's internal worlds. It also has a deeply problematic view of neurodivergence rooted in the pathology paradigm.
What would it look like to neuroqueer it?
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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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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…
There is consensus regarding some neurodevelopmental conditions being classed as neurominorities, with a ‘spiky profile’ of executive functions difficulties juxtaposed against neurocognitive strengths...
Sustained Inquiry into Broken Systems Broken systems require sustained attention. We give it.We build series. A series is how we follow a problem all the way through — past the first uncomfortable…
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…
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…
stimpunks.org
Sustained Inquiry into Broken Systems Broken systems require sustained attention. We give it.We build series. A series is how we follow a problem all the way through — past the first uncomfortable…
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.…
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
it’s me, aslynn
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.
