2 posts published by Jorn Bettin during May 2024| Autistic Collaboration
2 posts published by Jorn Bettin during December 2020| 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
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 logo of this website symbolises trusted collaboration at eye level, without social power gradients. Autistic people know intuitively that this is the only route to creating good company. Relati…| Autistic Collaboration
The human capacity for language would not have given us any adaptive ecological advantage if it did not primarily serve the purpose of improving our ability to understand, trust, and rely on each o…| NeuroClastic
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
The human capacity for language serves to improve understanding and trust, fostering collaboration instead of competition. This contradicts capitalist interpretations of evolution and supports the …| 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 …| NeuroClastic
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
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…| NeuroClastic
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
It is easy to point out the flawed assumptions and circular reasoning that underpin the justification for the institutions and social norms in W.E.I.R.D. societies, especially from an autistic pers…| 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
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
As I have been pointing out for the last few years, the commodification of neurodiversity and the exploitation of autistic people is in full swing. Corporate “Neurodiversity @ Work” and…| Autistic Collaboration
Replacing monologues and monocultures with dialogues and biodiversity at all levels of scale Cultural inertiaAttempting to apply the scientific method in complex domains and transdisciplinary conte…| Jorn Bettin
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
Like bees and ants, humans are eusocial animals. Through the lenses of evolutionary biology and cultural evolution, local communities – and especially small groups of 20 to 100 people – are the pri…| Jorn Bettin
The growing cracks in the thin veneer of our “civilised” economic and social operating model are impossible to ignore, to the extent that serious discussions of degrowth are increasingl…| Jorn Bettin
