This is an org I came across a while back. As it says in the pic and on their homepage, they are all about "Mutual Aid and Human-Centered Learning for Neurodivergent and Disabled People".
Their 'encylopedia of difference' has a huge plethora of information on so many topics. Hope ya'll find it as helpful as I have.
"Stimpunks was forged in the quest for survival and inclusion. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit built by and for neurodivergent and disabled people. Stimpunks was founded in December of 2021. We are a community affair. We’re Autistic, ADHD, OCD, PTSD, Tourettes, schizophrenic, bipolar, apraxic, dyslexic, dyspraxic, dyscalculic, non-speaking, and more. We’ve collectively experienced rare diseases, organ transplants, various cancers, many surgeries and therapies, and lots of ableism and SpEd. We’ve experienced #MedicalAbleism, #MedicalMisogyny, #MedicalRacism, #MedicalTrauma, and #MedicalGaslighting. We understand chronic pain, chronic illness, and the #NEISvoid “No End In Sight Void”. We know what it’s like to be disabled and different in our systems. We know what it is like to live with barriers and what it means to not fit in and have to forge our own community. Disabled and neurodivergent people are always edge cases, and edge cases are stress cases. We can help you design for the edges, because we live at the edges. We are the canaries. We are “the fish that must fight the current to swim upstream.“
Here's a link to their burnout page, which is where I first found them from online searches.
Yeah. Lost someone I thought would be a friend for life to the anti-vax movement of all things. Lost another to Trumpism. Yet another to the disease of money that turned them into the hateful, I-got-mine, everyone-else-is-just-lazy mindset.
kinda doomer-ish
I get really defensive these days when people around me try to speak on things from a racist, ableist foundation and I haven't really found anyone irl who doesn't openly support the mass culling of who they consider "lesser" or "undeserving". Add being vegan into the mix and most people I meet end up treating me as though I'm cringe, entitled, and delusional. The older I get the less I'm willing to even share space with a lot of people because of how overwhelmingly toxic the overall mindset of those around me is. I know it's not the case everywhere, but where I live in the US the majority of folks you meet check a box that a lot of hexbears would say is deserving of the wall. I just try to treat everyone with a modicum of respect and a healthy dose of boundaries to protect myself until I can afford to relocate. In the end we can't force our views or experiences on others, and many will never fully understand what it really means to want to make changes for a better future.