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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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Solidarity and Resistance
Standing together against ableism, racism, austerity and fascism, and building community power that looks after everyone.
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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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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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Wayfinding—In Practice
[Image description: Child’s spiral notebook open to two pages of vibrant color—at left, a rough checkered pattern with two rows each of different dual-color combinations; at right, nearly solid…
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The Name Was Already the Verdict
Zine No. 88 — How We Got Here On a record with no words that was banned for its title, a title the musician did not choose, and thirty years of engineering that had already decided a deviation from…
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⛱️ Neurodiversity Newsletter September Edition
Welcome to September’s Neurodiversity Newsletter August was a truly horrific month for political and media attacks on Neurodivergent people. This was most tragically seen in the racist, classist,…
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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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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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What that AI Disclosure Box Is Really Asking
Sometimes I can’t let it go. Something feels off, something important is being overlooked. I can’t stop poking at it until I understand what I am sensing. I frustrate the people around me. I…
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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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The “Overdiagnosis” Review: What It Actually Means for Autistic People and Their Families
If you are Autistic, waiting for an assessment, or supporting an Autistic child, you have probably seen the headlines. People “incentivised” to get diagnoses, an overdiagnosis crisis, a government…
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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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Trust Isn't a Number
Photo by Jack Guo on Unsplash Erik was the first dyslexic person who let me in. He let me see how he experienced the world. A Navy brat, his learning disability wasn’t caught until he was seventeen —…
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In the Interest of Full Transparency
This is the first image I’ve used AI to create. Look what you made me do, Substack. Once upon a time, a caveman figured out how to cook meat over fire. Another caveman was furious. “It’s better raw,”…
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Why Gang Culture Can Be Attractive to Autistic People
Gang involvement among Autistic people is rarely discussed in neurodivergent-affirming spaces, and when it is discussed at all, it tends to be framed through a criminological or risk-management lens…
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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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Stimpunks Solidarity and Otters
A reflection from Stimpunks Solidarity Sesh on otters, monotropism, and co-regulation, and what watching them together each week teaches us
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What Do Blow Jobs, Clothing Tags, and the World’s Softest Blanket Have in Common?
They all have almost nothing to do with morality. They have everything to do with a nervous system. One person’s heaven is another person’s sensory nightmare. The shirt someone else forgets they’re…
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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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What Next?
[Image description: Backlit photo of legs and socked feet up against a thin section of wall between windows, with one sill adorned with colorful gel-painted suncatchers. Outside is green trees and…
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Second Coming (Out)
I thought I had already stood at the edge of myself with my hands shaking and my mouth full of future and said: Here. This is who I am. I had been out for decades. Out in the way queer people are…
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Stimming, Glimmers & Solidarity: Celebrating Autistic Pride Together
What is Autistic Pride Day? Explore its history, stimming, and glimmers with NeuroHub Community, Stimpunks & Autistic Realms.
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It's Neurodiversity Pride Day
Enough Like You There are people who say, You don’t seem queer. As if queerness is a costume instead of a life. As if they can measure decades of love with a glance. As if surviving requires no…