Every single day, labour float a new, shitty policy that primarily punishes poorer areas. That's fun 🫠 this is basically just a new and exciting way to defund universities, and slaughter ones already struggling after a decade of underfunding.

There were three prescriptions based on core factors:
1️⃣ Advocate for neurodivergent people’s rights to thrive
2️⃣ Push for radical social change in solidarity with other activist movements
3️⃣ Promote genuine social inclusion (esp. in education & community)

For what is neurodiversity:

We found 3 factors of understandings of what the neurodiversity movement is which people loaded onto:
💥 Social justice movement
🌈 Rights-based co-existence
🧪 Scientific recognition of different minds

We organised the statements two categories of "what is neurodiversity" and "what should the neurodiversity movement do" and then analysed how participant-researchers organised the statements within these categories. This gave statistical results which we analysed as a group

We created, the clarified and filtered more than 200 statements down to about 100, and then split those statements and ranked them. We were both the researchers and participants.

We formed a collective of neurodivergent researchers (autistic, ADHD, dyslexic, dyspraxic, and more) to study our own perspectives with care, with transparency, and with methodological rigour and a focus on deep subjectivity. This wasn’t easy. Or comfortable. And it was slow!

This was an exciting and long collaboration that was by no means quick! We worked together over a period of time talking, sharing experiences, and then formalised the conversations into a shared methods to figure out what the (dis)similarities were in how we conceptualised

I'll post about #INSAR2025 in coming days but I just wanted to start by saying my biggest highlight this was was getting to see my students ✨SHINE✨. I am so proud of their deeply meaningful work and who they are as people.