![]() ![]() ![]() We use different language, different framing, and have little patience for respectability. We’re different than most autism and disability organizations because we are led by autistic and disabled people. Our divergent bodyminds aren’t all that’s different about us. Nobody’s a nobody and everybody is weird like you and me! The Amazing World of Gumball – Nobody’s A Nobody ❤️□ We serve our loved people so we can keep on livin’ through the onslaught.□□ We’re A Double Rainbow All the Way.□ We know who they are and what they have done to our people.□️ We’re Going to Rewrite the Narratives.□️ We reframe, because we’re not broken.✊ We’re a Feisty Group of Neurodivergent and Disabled People.What makes us different, makes all the difference in the world.Norah Hobbs, ( she/her ), Program Director.Chelsea Adams ( she/her ), Executive Director.Inna Boren ( she/her ), Co-Founder, Financial Director, Board President.Ryan Boren ( he / they ), Co-Founder, Creative Director, Board Secretary.We are “ the fish that must fight the current to swim upstream.“ We can help you design for the edges, because we live at the edges. We are the canaries. Disabled and neurodivergent people are always edge cases, and edge cases are stress cases. 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. We know what it’s like to be disabled and different in our systems. We understand chronic pain, chronic illness, and the #NEISvoid “No End In Sight Void”. We’ve experienced #MedicalAbleism, #MedicalMisogyny, #MedicalRacism, #MedicalTrauma, and #MedicalGaslighting. We’ve collectively experienced rare diseases, organ transplants, various cancers, many surgeries and therapies, and lots of ableism and SpEd. We’re Autistic, ADHD, OCD, PTSD, Tourettes, schizophrenic, bipolar, apraxic, dyslexic, dyspraxic, dyscalculic, non-speaking, and more. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit built by and for neurodivergent and disabled people. Stimpunks was forged in the quest for survival and inclusion. ![]()
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