I was on my daily walk this morning, early to avoid the heat of the day and the roar of lawnmowers and the rumble and cacophony of the trash truck. Per usual, I was adorned with my noise canceling headphones with an audiobook keeping me gentle company. Frances Weller’s words in his esteemed work The Wild Edge of Sorrow were dancing through my ears and mind, holding me tenderly in the earth grief I have felt near constantly these last years.| Stimpunks Foundation
In this blog I aim to explore the barriers to stimming for physically disabled people and why the limitations of our bodies should not inhibit our expression. The post Free The Stim: Exploring Stimming For Physically Disabled People first appeared on Stimpunks Foundation.| Stimpunks Foundation
Neurodivergent people are treated as noise to be filtered out in most studies supporting the “science of learning”. We are discounted as outliers. Our needs and ways of being are deemed too inconvenient to consider. So, the vast majority of studies just ignore us. The post The Incredible Inconvenience of the Neurodivergent to the “Science of Learning”: You’ll Never See Us Through Your Complexity Controls first appeared on Stimpunks Foundation.| Stimpunks Foundation
Our website is a living document that is always changing and growing. Here are some changes we made to the website in May. The post Stimpunks.org Changelog for May 2025 first appeared on Stimpunks Foundation.| Stimpunks Foundation
In this talk, Guy Claxton warns against the scientism and epistemic injustice of “The Science of Learning” and proposes something very much aligned with our notions of collaborative niche construction, toolbelt theory, collaboration, and iteration. These contribute to what Claxton calls “epistemic apprenticeship”. The post Professor Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning first appeared on Stimpunks Foundation.| Stimpunks Foundation
Niche Construction focuses on shaping the environment. Toolbelt Theory emphasizes personal tool selection. Together, they promote autonomy, adaptability, and personalized learning experiences. The post Niche Construction and Toolbelt Theory: Developing the Tools and Terroir of Coping and Learning first appeared on Stimpunks Foundation.| Stimpunks Foundation
For those of you who are visual thinkers, it may be helpful to imagine the executive functions as senior staff responsible for managing a large company. Senior staff delegate and plan tasks for a business, in a similar way to how executive functioning skills enable us as individuals to plan, organise and ultimately carry out our day-to-day activities. EF skills include far more than planning and organising, some of which I will elaborate on below: The post Beyond Awareness: Exploring Your ...| Stimpunks Foundation
As an autistic person, I have always been aware of my fellow neurokin. More than aware, acutely aware, a magnetic visceral connection pulling me towards my community. Even as a young child at primary school (unaware of my neurotype) my ‘autdar’ (was very strong and accurate), I instinctively felt the need to be near other autistic children. This makes sense being amongst our own community is integral to feelings of safety, belonging and happiness. But is it time to move beyond awareness? ...| Stimpunks Foundation
Seeds of Cope is a celebration foregrounding mental health and our many tools and techniques for coping. Join us May 17th. The post Seeds of Cope: A Mental Health Hootenanny first appeared on Stimpunks Foundation.| Stimpunks Foundation
About Viv Dawes I am late identified AuDHD with a PDA profile. I am a lived experience author, trainer and consultant and originally trained as an artist in the 1980s. As well as my work as an author and trainer I am a keen photographer. Thinking about how deep attention tunnels can be like a […] The post Attention tunnel wombs first appeared on Stimpunks Foundation.| Stimpunks Foundation
The 5 neurodivergent love locutions: infodumping, parallel play, support swapping, Please Crush My Soul Back Into My Body, Penguin Pebbling| Stimpunks Foundation
