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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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Learning Our Way
Schools, classrooms and learning spaces that work with neurodivergent minds instead of against them.
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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 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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What Would A Neuroqueer Pedagogy Be?
“What would a neuroqueer pedagogy be?” By Ombre Tarragnat (English translation with permission from Genre en Cours article Feb 2026)
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Spotlight on Embedding Neurodiversity into the Curriculum in Helping Professions: The Wholeness Solution with Mamood Ahmad, Psychotherapist and Author
Mamood Ahmad is a tutor, speaker, and author of A New Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy. He founded the #TADF community, which works proactively with training organisations to support the…
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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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Awe, Wonder and Monotropic Attention in Neuroqueer Learning Spaces
If Helen De Cruz designed a learning space, what would it look like? Helen Edgar follows wonder and awe through monotropism, glimmers, flow and Cavendish Space.
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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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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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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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Nothing here was inevitable
The manifesto of queering.earth: normal is an arrangement and arrangements have authors, weird is a verb, and a reading is where an arrangement gets contested. Adapted from the Neuroqueer Learning…
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Plain Language:
A plain-language guide to monotropism, wonder and awe — what happens when Autistic and ADHD attention is given space to notice, and stay
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Spotlight on Autistic Pride with Marion McLaughlin, Managing Director of Aurora Autistic Consulting, and founder of Autistic Pride Aberdeen
Marion McLaughlin is the Managing Director of Aurora Autistic Consulting. They have a varied career background including stable hand, road safety officer, primary school teacher, and Autistic led…
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Promoting Equity Through Neurodiversity-Affirming Therapy
Promoting Equity Through Neurodiversity-Affirming Therapy was recorded for The PDA Space Summit 2025. I’m sharing it with my paid subscribers as I’m revisiting and going deeper on some of the themes…
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Spotlight on Multisensory Aphantasia and the Therapy That Assumes Too Much with Sassy Smith, Founder of Aphantasia Academy and Author of Unseen Minds
Sassy Smith is founder of Aphantasia Academy, a UK-based training and education platform specialising in invisible cognitive differences including aphantasia, severely deficient autobiographical…
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Why Attachment Theory Fails Autistic People, and What Might Work Instead
If you have spent any time navigating schools, social care, or therapy as an Autistic person or supporting a loved one, you have likely encountered attachment theory. You may have been blamed for…
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Spotlight on Autistic Advocacy & the Limits of “Lived Experience” with Anne Borden King
Anne Borden King is an autistic woman who co-founded Autistics for Autistics (A4A), the Canadian self-advocacy & education group. With her leadership, A4A helped open public funding for AAC, speech…
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Beyond “Complex Needs”: Neuro-Affirming, Relational Practice with Children with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities
A neuro-affirming, relational approach to supporting children with profound and multiple learning disabilities, centred on safety, communication, and being-with.
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What schools and parents need to understand about supporting Autistic and neurodivergent children
What schools and parents need to understand about supporting Autistic and neurodivergent children
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Monotropism: A Poem
A poem about monotropism for children, young people, families and educators to open conversations about Autistic & ADHD experiences.
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Inclusion Needs Recognition, Not Erasure: A Neurodiversity-Affirming Approach
When headlines claim that autism and ADHD are “invented labels,” it’s more than rhetoric, it’s erasure. A explores why removing neurodiversity from education would harm the very children inclusion is…
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Why “Interest-Led” Isn’t Enough: Embracing Monotropism & Neuro-Affirming Practice
Many approaches claim to be “interest-led,” but true neuroaffirming practice goes deeper. Being monotropism-informed means honouring Autistic attention, autonomy, and sensory safety; not using…
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Navigating PANS/PANDAS & Neurodivergence
Our new PANS/PANDAS info-gathering templates help families, schools & clinicians understand the overlap between neurodivergence and PANS/PANDAS.
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Protecting the Meaning of Neuro-Affirming Practice
Discover what genuine neuro-affirming practice looks like — beyond tokenism and “neurodiversity-lite.” Explore how to protect the heart of the neurodiversity movement and uphold its community-led…