With fascism tightening its grip with... - The Feral Mountain Witch | Facebook
With fascism tightening its grip with each passing day here in the U.S. and SNAP benefits not being distributed come
November, now more than ever do we need to make sure that we are coming together...
Neurodivergence in Ancient Africa: What History Forgot but Our Ancestors Knew
In ancient West African cultures, neurodivergent people—autistic, ADHD, and spiritually attuned—were not seen as disordered, but as essential: griots, seers, healers, and memory keepers. This essay restores ancestral frameworks erased by colonialism and reframes difference as design, not defect.
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For me, every educational question comes down to access and opportunity. | by Ira David Socol | Teachers on Fire Magazine | Oct, 2025 | Medium
For me, every educational question comes down to access and opportunity. Every decision made by those who lead education departments, districts (LEAs), schools, and classrooms reflects deeply …
What is internalized ableism? Neurodivergent people need to know. – Neurodiverging
While the neurodiversity movement has been able to finally get some traction in the mainstream media, it has yet to have a significant impact on how people with disabilities are treated. This is due in part to the fact that neurodiversity is still misunderstood by many, and also because of how deeply entrenched ableism against...
Dismantling the “Science of Reading” and the Harmful Reading Policies in its Wake [UPDATED] | dr. p.l. (paul) thomas
[Header Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash] After emailing me about new reading legislation being proposed in North Carolina—next door to my home state of South Carolina that also has jumped on the …
Bridging Neurodiversity and Open Scholarship: How Shared Values Can Guide Best Practices for Research Integrity, Social Justice, and Principled Education - Phan - 2025 - Journal of Social Issues - Wiley Online Library
Not all people conform to socially constructed norms, nor should they have to. Neurodiversity, the natural variation in human brains and cognition, is fundamental to understanding human behavior, yet...
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Frontiers | Research by autistic researchers: an “insider’s view” into autism. The autistic way of being
This paper introduces us to an increasingly popular understanding of autism, but as understood and experienced by Autistic people: the descriptive theory of ...
Change the Data, Change the System with Polaris Education | Human Restoration Project | Chris McNutt Nick Covington
We are excited to share a new service from Human Restoration Project that allows us to listen and learn from young people in ways not possible before. Published by Human Restoration Project, a 501(c)3 organization restoring humanity to education.
Sami Timimi on the problems with SEND diagnosis | Tes
Diagnostic labels are medicalising young people for behaviours once considered ordinary and are contributing to unsustainable workload in schools, argues psychiatrist Sami Timimi
Autistic traits and loneliness in autism are associated with increased tendencies to anthropomorphise - Nathan Caruana, Rebekah C White, Anna Remington, 2021
Anthropomorphism—the attribution of human qualities to non-human objects—is believed to be a natural tendency which may serve several adaptive functions. One po...
Many approaches claim to be “interest-led,” but true neuroaffirming practice goes deeper. Being monotropism-informed means honouring Autistic attention, aut ...