The focus on economic performance and the subordination of all other dimensions of life in industrialised societies has profound effects on human behaviour. Different cultures focus on different pr…| Autistic Collaboration
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
The Autistic Collaboration Trust in collaboration with S23M Healthcare Solutions is offering in-depth education in the neurodiversity paradigm, intersectionality, the neurodiversity movem…| 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
This post is a rather long story. It attempts to connect topics from a range of domains, and the insights from experts in these domains. In this story my role is mainly the one of an observer. Over…| Jorn Bettin
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
Social power is best understood as a highly addictive and socially corrosive drug. Meaningful education in the era of the sixth mass extinction event has to focus on the majority of the human popul…| Autistic Collaboration
Big is Bad, Small is Beautiful, Less is More The preoccupation with growth and technology accelerated following WWII, fuelling the illusion of infinite growth on a finite planet. The rise and…| 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