Life is a highly dynamic system. Reflecting deeply on the relational nature of life allows us to become reacquainted with human emotional limits. Powered-up relationships are inherently incompatibl…| 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
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
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
W.E.I.R.D. stands for Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic. As long as society confuses homo economicus with homo sapiens we are more than “a bit off course”. The exp…| 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
The 10,000 year project of human civilisation or empire building is coming to an end. Human life as we knew it – shaped by the anthropocentric myths of “meritocracy”, technological R…| Jorn Bettin
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
Updated on 20 April 2024 Laws and social norms in industrialised societies have been shaped by the metaphor of society as a factory and the metaphor of people as machines more than m…| Jorn Bettin
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 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
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