May | 2024 | Autistic Collaboration
2 posts published by Jorn Bettin during May 2024| Autistic Collaboration
2 posts published by Jorn Bettin during May 2024| Autistic Collaboration
5 posts published by Jorn Bettin during February 2024| Autistic Collaboration
3 posts published by Jorn Bettin during May 2023| Autistic Collaboration
1 post published by Jorn Bettin during September 2020| Autistic Collaboration
2 posts published by Jorn Bettin during November 2019| Autistic Collaboration
1 post published by Jorn Bettin during June 2019| Autistic Collaboration
2 posts published by Jorn Bettin during December 2020| Autistic Collaboration
1 post published by Jorn Bettin during April 2020| Autistic Collaboration
2 posts published by Jorn Bettin during April 2018| Autistic Collaboration
There is a co-evolved natural pace to the flow of life at each of the different scales within the kingdoms of life. We currently live in a social world of magical thinking shaped by the cult of tec…| Autistic Collaboration
Core ideas within Buddhist and Daoist spiritual traditions are reflective of the commonalities found across many human scale indigenous cultures. A compassionate frame of love as vulnerable mutual …| Autistic Collaboration
The world needs more Autistic research: research that no one else is prepared to do, research that genuinely questions the status quo, and that would not be possible without the commitment, the per…| Autistic Collaboration
Click your language to read: English / Français / Español / Eλληνικά / Íslenska / Italiano / Polski / Português brasileiro / Click here to use Google translate to read in other languages /&nbs…| Autistic Collaboration
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
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
In the current Aotearoa New Zealand Autism Guideline the existence of Autistic culture is not mentioned with a single word. Understanding Autistic people and Autistic culture is still a secondary concern. Civil society activists and child rights' defenders from around the world are now joining together to create the Rights-Centric Education network.| Autistic Collaboration
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
“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
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
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
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
Surviving on the edges of modern society is an Art. The Arts and regular immersion in genuinely safe Open Spaces help us imagine and co-create ecologies of care in which care and mutual aid are the…| 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
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 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
In our modern world the notion of tribalism is associated with many negative connotations, and especially with tribal bias, which is assumed to be an undesirable trait. A closer analysis reveals th…| 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
AutCollab Education invites you to learn directly from the neurodiversity and disability rights movement via paradigm shifting professional education courses. Scheduled courses → Register Acti…| 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
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
Corporations are best understood as externalising machines that perpetuate a landscape of psychopathic institutions that are exclusively concerned with perception management. As life on this planet…| Autistic Collaboration
More and more people are discovering the timeless wisdom curated by Laozi for survival within the mono-cult of busyness. The Chinese concept of Pu is a Daoist metaphor that points us towards earlie…| 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
Humans are not going to find solutions for the polycrisis, conquer new planets, the galaxy, and the universe, fully understand the human condition, or develop technologies that replace anthropocent…| Autistic Collaboration
The Autistic Collaboration Trust has been active in researching cultural and psychological safety from an intersectional perspective. We now explore the level of cognitive dissonance that is genera…| Autistic Collaboration
The NeurodiVerse Days of Solidarity offer a rich opportunity for omni-directional learning across cultures and geographies. The diversity in the way we collectively think about the future shapes th…| 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
Initial results from a survey on psychological safety and mental wellbeing indicate that the biggest fears of Neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+, and Disabled children – and especially those who also belong …| Autistic Collaboration
The Autistic Collaboration Trust in collaboration with S23M Healthcare Solutions is working with healthcare professionals to facilitate sector wide education in the neurodiversity paradigm, the neu…| Autistic Collaboration
The biggest fears of Neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+ and Disabled people relate to unmet healthcare needs, their work environment, their parents, and disrespect by healthcare professionals. Data from our …| Autistic Collaboration
The normalisation of social power gradients and powered-up relationships is the terminal disease that plagues all empires. Since we live in the context of the convulsions of dying empires, it is im…| 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
W.E.I.R.D. stands for Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic. As long as society confuses homo economicus with homo sapiens we are more than “a bit off course”. The exp…| 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
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
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
The global mono-cult pretends that all aspects of life can be categorised and understood in terms of normality – by the hump of the bell curve. But the living planet does not conform to anthropocen…| Autistic Collaboration
Autists learn and play differently, because our senses work differently, and because we make sense of the world in different ways. Our sensory profiles don’t allow us to push cognitive disson…| Autistic Collaboration
Aut Collab is a hub for mutual support, and encourages neurodivergent individuals and ventures to connect and establish long-term collaborations.| Autistic Collaboration
We are documenting Autistic culture in our articles, and we are centring Autistic lived experiences via participatory Autistic research, by actively supporting Autistic res…| 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
The objectives of the Autistic and neurodiversity civil rights movements overlap significantly with the struggles of indigenous peoples. All people are fully human. Especially those who are systema…| Autistic Collaboration
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
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
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
Life under the hump of the bell curveThe neurodiversity movement is a human rights struggleThe emergence of neurodivergent cultures If you are culturally well adjusted to modern society, your sense…| 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
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
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
This article reflects the foundation of Autistic collaboration between Jax Bayne, Jorn Bettin, Sam Davis, Star Ford, Svanhildur Kristjansson, and a growing human scale neurodivergent team. We are a…| Autistic Collaboration
