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Why PCIT is Problematic
Let's start with what PCIT actually trains a parent to do, because the marketing language obscures it. Parent-Child Interaction Therapy asks caregivers to lavish praise and attention on a narrow band…
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Hard Roads, Honest Words
Unflinching first-person writing about self-injury, eating disorders, coercive groups and therapy that harmed, and about surviving all of it.
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You Still Only Have Two Hands
“It doesn’t matter if you have a million tools in your toolbox. You alone only have two hands.” My client looked at me and said, essentially: You need to write about that. So I did. Because I think…
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I Didn’t Pull the Five of Swords. I Threw It at Myself.
I have been working my ass off lately. The kind of morning where you are doing seventeen things at once, holding twelve more in your head, and somehow still feeling like you haven’t done enough. The…
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I Don’t Look Disabled. Whatever the Fuck That Means.
*A large number of neurodivergent folks are living with dynamic disabilities - diagnosed or not so while this does not speak to the overlap, it truly is about what so many neurocomplex folks are…
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The Radical Politics of Being Misunderstood
Diagnosis has a terrible history. That is not a sentence therapists say often enough. We like to imagine the history of mental health as a steady march toward truth: each generation becoming more…
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Who Are You Fucking For?
We talk about unmasking at work, with friends, at home, in therapy. We talk about letting ourselves stim and communicate more directly. Wearing the clothes that don’t hurt. Leaving the party before…
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The Unbelieved Body
Content note: this essay discusses psychosis, tactile hallucinations, physical illness, health anxiety, medical dismissal and premature death. It does not describe self-harm or crisis in detail. In…
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I Want to Go Home.
Share I was already home. In my own house. Surrounded by familiar things. In a place where I was safe, where I belonged, where there was nowhere else I was supposed to be. And still, somewhere…
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When the Web Frays: Burnout, Crisis and the Monotropic Mind
Content note: this article discusses Autistic burnout, psychiatric crisis, psychosis and inpatient admission. It does not describe self-harm. So far this series has set out the core shift (Part 1)…
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I Don’t Fuck With Paris
I wasn’t invited to Paris Hilton’s ADHD event. There was no dramatic refusal. No principled rejection of a pink invitation. No publicist desperately trying to reach me while I weighed my values…
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 41 2026: From the Kitchen to the Pub, From the Source to the Page
This week Stimpunks.World got somewhere to eat, drink, and sit down. Hey, Good Cookin’ is a community kitchen where nobody is turned away. Pekoe and Purrs is a cat café where every cat is waiting for…
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The Extended Mind: Symphrenia, Rhizomes and Making-With
Content note: this post discusses psychosis, psychiatric diagnosis, burnout and dehumanisation. It does not describe self-harm or crisis in detail. Support links are at the end. In Brief Symphrenia…
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Symphrenia
Content note: this essay discusses psychosis, psychiatric diagnosis, burnout, and the institutional treatment of Mad people. It does not describe self-harm or crisis in detail. Support links are at…
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Inclusion Safety: Owed, Not Earned
A Creed — Foundations Inclusion safety is not a reward for the worthy. It is the baseline we owe one another simply for being here.
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What Does Autism Feel Like?
I am Autistic. I know this, not only because I was diagnosed after extensive assessment, but also because of my feeling of belonging within the Autistic cultural ecosystem. I am, however, plagued by…
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What Does Autism Feel Like?
I am Autistic. I know this, not only because I was diagnosed after extensive assessment, but also because of my feeling of belonging within the Autistic cultural ecosystem. I am, however, plagued by…
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Psychic Static: The Sociocontextual Surplus of PDA
*I find that AuDHD/autistic people as a whole tend to fall on different sides of a bell curve. The same is likely true of PDAers but we do not have enough research on differential traits amongst…
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Limerence Isn’t Love, But Maybe It’s Beautiful Anyway
Limerence is not love. That matters. Love is relational. Love knows another person through reciprocity, time, friction, disappointment, repair, and the accumulation of shared reality. Limerence is…
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Watch Now: Autistic Resistance & Challenging Neuronormativity in the Therapy Room
Therapy either upholds neuronormativity and pathologises Autistic people, or challenges normative values and supports Autistic wellbeing through neuroaffirming resistance. That’s the premise of my…
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What I Mean When I Say I'm PDA
What I Mean When I Say I’m PDA When I say I’m PDA, I am describing the nervous system I came to inhabit through biology, experience, adaptation, and survival. I am describing the way my body learned…
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Why Neurodivergent Community Matters For Neurodivergent People
It’s no secret to the neurodivergent community at large that performing a neurocognitive style that differs from the neuronormative standard of our given culture is a challenge that is often…
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Why Neurodivergent Community Matters For Neurodivergent People
It’s no secret to the neurodivergent community at large that performing a neurocognitive style that differs from the neuronormative standard of our given culture is a challenge that is often…
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Stripping the Mask Off
This whole piece was inspired by a Tori Amos concert. Or concerts. But I must admit, I’m not Tori’s biggest fan. Not her music anyway. But the way she shows up? The way she inhabits her body?…
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Spotlight on Selective Mutism with Libby Hill, Speech and Language Therapist with Small Talk Speech and Language Therapy
Libby Hill is a consultant speech and language therapist (SLT) with a fascination for autism, including PDA, selective mutism and developmental language disorder. She has been an SLT for 40 years and…