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Edition Six
2 October 2026 — Glimmer Wire Six papers read end to end — and the first story held because the only summary of it available was written by a machine.
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🍁 Neurodiversity Newsletter October Edition
Welcome to October’s Neurodiversity Newsletter October is both AAC Awareness Month and ADHD Awareness Month, designed to dispel myths and spread understanding. Augmentative and alternative…
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Weekly Reflection for Week 38 2026
Week 38 runs Sunday 2026-09-13 through Saturday 2026-09-19. The day headings below carry their dates. Best Accomplishments Helen Edgar stopped being a contributor to this work and became a peer in…
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 39 2026: From the Street to the World, From the Box to the Paint
This week the loud site got a new name and a lot more street. Stimpunks.Love moved house to stimpunks.world and became Stimpunks.World: a campground past the treeline, an Outskirts past the last…
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Mapping Monotropism in Education
Mapping Monotropism in Education is new: Helen Edgar on what the map means at school. It comes from the Yellow Ladybugs panel she gave with Dr Wenn Lawson in June 2025, and it is for teachers,…
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Edition Five
25 September 2026 — Glimmer Wire Five papers read end to end — and six holds whose headlines each turn on a word the paper does not use.
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Metaphoray
Helen Edgar on foraging between ways of knowing: Robin Wall Kimmerer’s word for the writer’s walk, Etuaptmumk and the four aspects a discipline had no room for, and the gap between the label and the…
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Betwixt Wall & Window: Neuroqueering from the Liminal & Hiraki Sawa’s art
Tired, fragmented and looping, I found my experience of Autistic burnout in a ghostly figure from Hiraki Sawa's silent video Souvenir IV. This piece follows her through hauntology, plurality and the…
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Chug Alcohol-Free IPA (0.5% ABV) — Draft
When one goes on a night out and doesn't drink, you rarely expect good choices for alcohol free beers other than the usual suspects like a can or a bottle of Lucky Saint or Brewdog Punk AF. So when…
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The Demand Avoidance broadside
A twelfth broadside, in blue and violet. Demand Avoidance compresses the Why Sheet released the same day onto one sheet, printed both sides, for carrying into a meeting rather than reading on a…
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Demand Avoidance
An eighteenth Why Sheet, for the meeting where a child has been called defiant. Demand Avoidance is for the room where a child's inability to meet demands has been filed as a choice, and the plan on…
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The staleness check can fail again
security.txt was rewriting itself on every build. RFC 9116 wants a future expiry date, and ours was computed as a year from Date.now() — to the second. So that one file differed from its committed…
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A changelog you can subscribe to
This page. The sheets get revised — a section added, a quotation re-sourced, a claim corrected — and somebody is carrying an earlier version into a meeting on Tuesday. A commit history does not…
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The changelog has a feed
A feed of this page now exists, so a reader can bring the changes to you rather than you coming back to look. It carries each entry in full, not a teaser and a link — what is on the page is what…
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AAC Is Not a Last Resort
A seventeenth Why Sheet, logged here late. AAC Is Not a Last Resort argues that a robust communication system is a right rather than a reward for proving you deserve one, and that AAC does not delay…
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Prompts for work and clinic
Every sheet that has somewhere to write now has a companion prompt — twelve of sixteen, up from ten. The four without one argue a position with no decision-maker at the other end. Sensory Access at…
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Asks sections, published
All ten school sheets now say what to ask for. Five gained a "What to Ask For in the Room" section — Behaviorism, Alternatives to ABA, ABA Tactics, Positive Greetings at the Door, and Hoodie — and…
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Social cards
Every page now has a card. Share a Why Sheet into Discord, Bluesky or Slack and the link arrives with the sheet's title and the moment you reach for it, set in the site's own type on white — a…
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Companion prompts
A prompt to go with the sheet. Four Why Sheets now carry a companion prompt: plain text you copy into whatever AI assistant you already use, which asks you what happened — your child's name, their…
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The Why Sheet Press
The first release. Fourteen Why Sheets and nine broadsides, published as a print-first library at whysheet.press, generated from the Markdown in this repository. The press. Every sheet gets a page…
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Edition Four
18 September 2026 — Glimmer Wire The week four papers opened end to end — and the longest lag the axis has recorded, 330 days.
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It Happened Where You Are Sitting
Zine No. 111 — Star Stuff On a beginning with no location, an observable universe that does have a centre, and the difference between no preferred place and no preferred frame.
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A second tool: draw your own map
Draw a map is new, and version one has not gone anywhere. They ask different questions. The marking tool asks where you are on Helen's map; the new one hands over blank ground and a tray of shapes…
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Helen's review came back
The map's author read the forty passages Stimpunks wrote onto her map, and sent notes on eighteen of them. Those notes are now the pages. This is the part of the process the site was built around:…