“Conversion therapies” such as Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) are pseudoscientific practices of trying to change an individual’s behaviour to conform to the social expectations …| 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
Nurturing bioregional and planetary health The moon is greeting the Matariki sunrise Today is Matariki, the start of the Māori new year. The days are getting longer again in the Southern Hemisphere…| 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
AutCollab Education invites you to learn directly from the neurodiversity and disability rights movement via paradigm shifting professional education courses. Scheduled courses → Register Acti…| 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
Psychiatry is slowly catching up with the concept of neurodiversity amongst animals, including humans, taking clues from animal biology/psychology and from the neurodiversity movement. The language…| 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
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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
In the cult of busyness the simplistic logic of finance acts as a universal linguistic and psychological security blanket. The world of finance feels comfortable because it conjures up the illusion…| Autistic Collaboration
Life under the hump of the bell curveThe neurodiversity movement is a human rights struggleThe emergence of neurodivergent cultures If you are culturally well adjusted to modern society, your sense…| 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
All living systems, from the smallest forms of life to the planetary ecosystem are best understood as complex systems of feedback loops. Metaphors we live byInterdependence Holotropism Metaphors we…| Autistic Collaboration
