I have also created an essay plate about metaphoray for Queering Earth, a project I (Helen @autisticrealms.bsky.social ) have been working on with Ryan Boren at @stimpunks.org queering.earth/metaphoray

Metaphoray

A botanist’s word for the walk, a writer’s word for the same walk, and the gap between what a label can hold and what the plant actually was.

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Stimpunks is not only stimpunks.org. Five smaller sites, each doing one thing the big site cannot. All free, all open-licensed, all made with Helen Edgar. We built them one at a time for a year and never said so in one place. Now we have. stimpunks.org/2026/09/15/o...

queering.earth Queering readings of literature, poetry, art, people and history. A collaboration between Helen Edgar @autisticrealms.bsky.social and Ryan Boren @stimpunks.org morerealms.com/queering-ear...

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queering.earth A New Cabinet for Post-Normal Possibilities A collaboration between Helen Edgar and Ryan Boren, Stimpunks Foundation “Weird” comes from wyrd, Old English for fate and bec…

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Bluesky teacher hivemind, I'm looking for examples of concepts in any subject that learners find tricky to grasp, and the creative, amusing, concrete or multisensory ways you've come up with to teach them. It's for a book I'm writing atm. Thanks in advance! Please repost. #EduSky

Hurrah! So proud of working on this animation with @thrivingautistic.bsky.social team including @oolong.co.uk @scrappapertiger.bsky.social @jessicakdoyle.bsky.social Laura Buckland Mason and our fabulous animator @iara-abigalil.bsky.social with music by @SomebodySomeone

Thriving Autistic@thrivingautistic.bsky.social · last mo.

We are delighted that our animation, Discovering You're Autistic, has been chosen for a screening at the Skiptown Playhouse in Hollywood, LA. @SkiptownFilmFest youtu.be/-eDv2omDMko?...

Use code RBS20 and get 20% OFF It Takes All Kinds of Minds: Fostering Neurodivergent Thriving at School Edited By Rachael Davis, @claruineill.bsky.social , @suereviews.bsky.social With a chapter about Monotropism and Flow by myself and @oolong.co.uk www.routledge.com/It-Takes-All...

Launching the Autistic Scholars Project on AutiHub: a free public database of academic publications authored/co-authored by autistic people. 354 autistic authors, 1,799 publications — with daily monitoring for new publications by included authors. autihub.org/en/autistic-...

Autistic Scholars Project

The Autistic Scholars Project is a public, freely accessible database that indexes academic publications authored or co-authored by at least one autistic …

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Autidacts.org is becoming **Autihub.org**, opening the project to a broader range of initiatives focused on the participation and representation of autistic people in autism research and knowledge production. More information in the coming days: autihub.org #AutismResearch #ActuallyAutistic

AutiHub

AutiHub brings together citizen-led, open projects focused on autistic participation and representation in autism knowledge production.The site develops t…

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Came Back Clean — what buried underpants say about soil A thousand people buried two thousand pairs of underpants across Switzerland. The ones that came back cleanest were under lawns — and that is the bad result. starstuff.earth/came-back-cl...

Came Back Clean — what buried underpants say about soil

A thousand people buried two thousand pairs of underpants across Switzerland. The ones that came back cleanest were under lawns — and that is the bad result.

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English-Language Autism Terminology Preferences of Autistic People and their Parents in the United States: Clustering Illuminates Diverse Views Dwyer, P., Williams, Z. J., Magnuson, J. E., & Woynaroski, T. G. (2026). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Worth a read!

English-Language Autism Terminology Preferences of Autistic People and their Parents in the United States: Clustering Illuminates Diverse Views - Patrick Dwyer, Zachary J. Williams, Jennifer E. Magnus...

Autism terminology preferences are the subject of considerable debate and various studies, the results of which sometimes conflict. This study examined diversit...

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@stimpunks.org has been busy with our collab StarStuff Zines Our field guide to glimmers. Explore the science, research & history behind some words that describe monotropic experiences found in the book I co-created with @auroraconsulting.bsky.social & F. Goodhall starstuff.earth/under-the-wo...

Under the Word

Eighteen words for Autistic joy, each with its honest provenance and whatever is actually underneath it — which turns out to be a mechanism for thirteen of them and a person for five.

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I published my access rider. It exists so you don't have to guess, and so I don't have to spend the encounter explaining myself instead of doing the work. Remote and async by default. Write it down. No phone calls. Don't touch my wheelchair. stimpunks.org/about/ryan/a...

Access Rider — Ryan Boren

This rider exists so you don’t have to guess, and so I don’t have to spend the encounter explaining myself instead of doing the work. It says how to support my access needs so we both get something…

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Tonight if anyone wants to join us in @stimpunks.org Discord 1am UK time, 7pm Central Time.

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Thursday's Infodumplings is a scent night. Norah's favourites, Ryan's subscription vials, and whatever smells good in your house. "An invitation for the community to take a whiff." What scents do you enjoy? stimpunks.org/2026/08/24/i...

@edutopia.org does a lot of things well, but I think nailing an animated version of me has to go up to the top of my list. Quite the surprise for me. Here's a short video that details how I arrange my classroom: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvFX...

Rethinking Classroom Seating With Caves, Campfires, and Watering Holes

YouTube video by Edutopia

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Fabulous - Have you seen the work I have been doing with @stimpunks.org about Cavendish Space and Caves, Campfires and Watering Holes? stimpunks.org/space/cavend...

⛺️🔥 Cavendish Space: Caves, Campfires, and Watering Holes for Dandelions, Tulips, and Orchids

Cavendish Space: psychologically and sensory safe spaces suited to zone work, flow states, intermittent collaboration, and collaborative niche construction.

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Edutopia@edutopia.org · 2mo ago

Tired of shuffling desks around every time you change the mode of learning from whole-class instruction to groups or solo work? Educator @mrrablin.bsky.social has found a solution—and it involves caves⚒️, campfires🔥, and watering holes🌴.

Tired of shuffling desks around every time you change the mode of learning from whole-class instruction to groups or solo work? Educator @mrrablin.bsky.social has found a solution—and it involves caves⚒️, campfires🔥, and watering holes🌴.

Watching the culture wars turn to neurodivergence was so predictable.

Thursday's Infodumplings is a scent night. Norah's favourites, Ryan's subscription vials, and whatever smells good in your house. "An invitation for the community to take a whiff." What scents do you enjoy? stimpunks.org/2026/08/24/i...

Infodumplings: Take a Whiff

This week Norah and Ryan are co-hosting a scent night. Ryan has a Scentbird subscription and a queue of little vials to work through. Norah is bringing some of her favorites. Neither of us is a…

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Sunday at Campfire we mourn and celebrate Professor Jason Arday — one of very few people anywhere who talked about race and neurodivergence in the same breath, as one problem. Two of his own talks. stimpunks.org/2026/08/22/c...

Campfire Learn Together: Unlearning Toward Hope with Jason Arday

"What we are bereft of is care." For our Sunday, August 30, 2026 Campfire Learn Together, we are mourning and celebrating Professor Jason Arday with two of his own talks — one on neurodiversity,…

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"You don't need an ocean full of hope, but you do need a ripple, you do need a drop, and that is often enough." — Jason Arday Sunday's Campfire is a memorial and a briefing. stimpunks.org/2026/08/22/c...

Campfire Learn Together: Unlearning Toward Hope with Jason Arday

"What we are bereft of is care." For our Sunday, August 30, 2026 Campfire Learn Together, we are mourning and celebrating Professor Jason Arday with two of his own talks — one on neurodiversity,…

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Sunday we mourn and celebrate Professor Jason Arday with two of his own talks. He defended late-identified Autistic and ADHD people a year before the backlash peaked. He was precise and kind. It did not protect him. stimpunks.org/2026/08/22/c...

Campfire Learn Together: Unlearning Toward Hope with Jason Arday

"What we are bereft of is care." For our Sunday, August 30, 2026 Campfire Learn Together, we are mourning and celebrating Professor Jason Arday with two of his own talks — one on neurodiversity,…

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Sunday's Campfire: a movement practice, not a lecture. Seated tai chi, somatics, a chair stim dance, flamenco. All seated, by design. Aug 23, 10AM CT / 4PM UK stimpunks.org/2026/08/21/c...

Campfire Learn Together: Seated Tai Chi, Transformative Somatic Practices, and Bodily Survival Knowledge

For our Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 10AM CT, 4PM UK Campfire Learn Together, we are not just watching. We are moving. This session is a practice, a reading, and an argument, in that order. We start…

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The news is relentless. Our community is in crisis. Coping and Mental Health Helplines stimpunks.org/fieldguide/c... @stimpunks.org If you are in crisis text 50808 in Ireland, 85258 in the UK & 741741 in the US & Canada for free, nonjudgmental 24/7 support

Regulation & Coping

Here are some people, tools, concepts, and techniques that help us cope as embodied beings.

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Do you still have a favorite dinosaur? And why are we expected to "grow out" of them? Autistic kids infodump about dinosaurs and get ridiculed for it. Thursday's Infodumplings, 7PM Central. Bring yours. stimpunks.org/2026/08/19/i...

Infodumplings: Do You Still Have a Favorite Dinosaur?

"Do you still have a favorite dinosaur?" And the question sitting right behind it: why are we expected to "grow out" of our childhood enthusiasms like dinosaurs? Dinosaurs are a popular infodumping interest among Autistic kids, and we are often ridiculed for our enthusiasm — especially as we get older and are expected to get "serious," which usually means focusing on what we can make money at. So that is Thursday. No video, no slides, no expertise required. Bring your dinosaur. Bring the thing that was your dinosaur. Bring the enthusiasm you were told to put away, and tell us whether you actually did.

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Honoured to have written this for @annafreudcharity.bsky.social Autistic burnout is more than just feeling a little tired. It may also co-exist with depression or be mistaken for depression, which can make it harder to recognise and get the right support. www.autismcentral.nhs.uk/news/blog-wh...

Blog: What is autistic burnout? | Autism Central

Helen Edgar looks at understanding autistic burnout and how you can support autistic family members who may be going through this.

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As such, the witch-hunt against Jason Arday was a paradigmatic example of “anti-woke”. A politics of cruelty rooted in anti-blackness, driven by the racist right and enabled, sad to say, by various dupes on the centre and even in parts of the left. 2/

Until very recently, the word “woke” conveyed something beautiful: political awakening in the context of the African-American liberation struggle. The way it has been forcibly stripped from that context and transformed into a ubiquitous term of derision is shockingly cruel & inherently anti-black 1/

Week 33: we built six machines to check our own work, then found the edge where they stop helping. Almost every fault that changed an argument was caught by a human reading. stimpunks.org/2026/08/16/s...

Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 33 2026: From the Gate to the Looking, From the Claim to the Credit

This week ★ stuff stopped being a pile of zines and became a library. Twenty-three numbered zines, five field guides, seven printable sheets, thirteen collections, and six automated checking gates —…

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Star Stuff — science and wonder and the beautiful diversity of being. starstuff.earth

Star Stuff — Love You Down To Your Star Stuff

Zines and field guides on the science of belonging — we are made of star stuff, and we belong not despite our differences but as them. Love You Down To Your Star Stuff.

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A public enquiry is desperately needed here. Please consider signing goodlawproject.org/s/533647

Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

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