Intersectional cultural and psychological safety across all aspects of life The level of ignorance, stigma, and open hostility that Autistic people regularly have to deal with is traumatising. Enco…| 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
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
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
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 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
Collaboration as an evolutionary force If autistic people can’t always see the depth of the “bigger picture” of the office politics around us it does not in any way mean that we …| Autistic Collaboration
Just for a minute, imagine … not getting pleasure out of successfully copying the behaviour of others, and instead experiencing discomfort when copying others; and not getting pleasure out of socia…| 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
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
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
Society should be moving beyond autism awareness and autism acceptance towards appreciation of all forms of neurodiversity. However, the label of neurodiversity is being co-opted. I cringe wh…| 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