In indigenous societies human scale groups are those who we regularly rely on for mutual aid and assistance. In small societies without abstract formal authorities, everyone learns from everyone. T…| Autistic Collaboration
Hunter-gatherer societies are highly expert in group deliberation and decision-making which respects both difference and unity| Aeon
The logo of this website symbolises trusted collaboration at eye level, without social power gradients. Autistic people know intuitively that this is the only route to creating good company. Relati…| Autistic Collaboration
You may have read articles like this one that point to different ways of recording COVID-19 mortality in different jurisdictions. The concerns raised about variability in data collection are mirror…| Autistic Collaboration
Surviving on the edges of modern society is an Art. The Arts and regular immersion in genuinely safe Open Spaces help us imagine and co-create ecologies of care in which care and mutual aid are the…| Autistic Collaboration
How do we find true belonging, and true community in the most literal sense of that word? To answer this question, Dr. Yuria Celidwen, from Chiapas, Mexico, combines Indigenous studies, cultural psychology, and contemplative science in her research.| resilience
The Autistic, Authentic, Autonomous Collaboration community grows organically, at human scale, at a human pace, one trusted relationship at a time, in the form of self-organising small groups that …| Autistic Collaboration
All books featured by the Autistic Collaboration Trust are written by members members of the autistic community and are considered to be contributions to autistic culture.| Autistic Collaboration
Autistic and otherwise neurodivergent people have been comparing notes on the diversity of human ways of being via the internet for over twenty years. Lessons from the social model of disability an…| Autistic Collaboration
Cultural evolution and creative niche constructionCulture shapes what people attend to, perceive, remember, and how they think, feel, and reasonThe revolution will not be nudgedEvolution and the hu…| Autistic Collaboration
Illustration from Aarambh India Building blocks of cultural organismsPhysical presence and activityRelational presence and activityInternal presence and creativityDialogueRoutinesOpen SpaceAutistic…| Autistic Collaboration
In our modern world the notion of tribalism is associated with many negative connotations, and especially with tribal bias, which is assumed to be an undesirable trait. A closer analysis reveals th…| Autistic Collaboration
Many scientists don’t acknowledge the extent to which their disciplinary paradigms are influenced by the cultural frames of the colonial era. The so-called mental health crisis is a symptom o…| Autistic Collaboration
We are catalysing intersectional solidarity via quarterly participant driven Open Space events that provide a safe space for neurodivergent, indigenous, and otherwise marginalised people to engage …| Autistic Collaboration
Our individually unique nervous systems and sensitivities develop and evolve over the course of our lives. 85% of neurodivergent adults often or always feel overwhelmed and misunderstood, and over …| Autistic Collaboration
Corporations are best understood as externalising machines that perpetuate a landscape of psychopathic institutions that are exclusively concerned with perception management. As life on this planet…| Autistic Collaboration
More and more people are discovering the timeless wisdom curated by Laozi for survival within the mono-cult of busyness. The Chinese concept of Pu is a Daoist metaphor that points us towards earlie…| Autistic Collaboration
Slowing down to reflect and relate deeply with the non-human beings that are part of the living planet is an important aspect of life and healing. There is no shortage of small human scale initiati…| Autistic Collaboration
The normalisation of social power gradients and powered-up relationships is the terminal disease that plagues all empires. Since we live in the context of the convulsions of dying empires, it is im…| Autistic Collaboration
The diagnostic criteria for autism cover a broad and diverse umbrella of people, and they obscure the Autistic lived experience of toxic cultural norms that are ultimately detrimental for all peopl…| Autistic Collaboration
The notion of disability in our society is underscored by a bizarre conception of “independence”. Autists depend on assistance from others in ways that differ from the cultural norm – a…| Autistic Collaboration
If neurodiversity is the natural variation of cognition, motivations, and patterns of behaviour within the human species, then what role do Autistic traits in particular play within human cultures …| Autistic Collaboration
The global mono-cult pretends that all aspects of life can be categorised and understood in terms of normality – by the hump of the bell curve. But the living planet does not conform to anthropocen…| Autistic Collaboration
The definition of normality in the industrial era is based on the metaphor of society as a factory and on the metaphor of people as machines. Our laws and social norms have been shaped by these met…| Autistic Collaboration
The smallest unit of learning is a feedback loop. Power is the privilege of not needing to learn. The dynamic process of life is best understood in relational terms. At human scale, all healthy rel…| Autistic Collaboration
Life is an ecological process. This is the case for all living organisms. In a healthy habitat, organisms experience life as being part of an ecology of care. This is the case irrespective of the s…| Autistic Collaboration
The actual effect of the myth of meritocracy, which is used to normalise and rationalise head to head competition, is a consistent bias to over-represent capabilities, and to actively avoid thinkin…| Autistic Collaboration
Members of the neurodiversity movement recognise neurodivergent traits as natural variations of cognition, motivations, and patterns of behaviour within the human species. NeurodiVenture : an …| Autistic Collaboration
The Overton window of industrialised society We live in a time of exponential changes in communication technology. Just a few decades ago humans only needed to learn one or two languages and perhap…| Jorn Bettin