Autistic culture is a world of infinite diversity beyond the neuronormative imagination. Every Autistic relationship is unique, and many of us are traumatised. We need appropriate tools to invest in deeply understanding each other. Cultural metamorphosis requires radically reframing everything we understand about cultural adaptivity in terms of co-creating ecologies of care.| Autistic Collaboration
Underneath the surface of internalised ableism, no one wants to be seen and heard by many. Everyone prefers to be understood and loved deeply by a few, and everyone wants to love and help. This is what makes us sacred human animals. Continuous dialogues about commitments make life sacred. This is the experience of life as a process of becoming.| Autistic Collaboration
Many Autistic people have great difficulties to think of the world in hierarchical ways. From everything that we know about our evolutionary path as humans, this is simply a reflection of innate hu…| Autistic Collaboration
Gaia is facing a metacrisis. But humanity is primarily facing a crisis of institutions and collective imagination. Many of us would be unable to recognise a healthy human scale cultural organism if…| Jorn Bettin
In the Western Educated Industrialised Rich Democratic (WEIRD) world we live in what philosopher Guy Debord described as The Society of the Spectacle. The reality presented to us via the media and public social media has been engineered to fit the exacting standards of Homo Economicus®. All the people alive today in Westernised countries, i.e. all the people in WEIRD countries and in the countries aspiring to WEIRD standards, have been born into The WEIRD Spectacle of internalised ableism.| Autistic Collaboration
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Money and social power gradients are abstract cultural artefacts designed to defy compostability – social conventions that we can accept or reject, which are perpetuated by careless and learning di…| 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
Ingredients for slowing down to the relational speed of life and cooking up de-powered social operating models. Many Autists realise that the best we can ever hope for in this hypernormative civili…| 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
Evolutionary design allows organisations and people to participate in the evolution of a living system and to integrate their knowledge into a living system that includes humans, non-humans, and hu…| Jorn Bettin