These are the words More Realms is made of. Some I found in philosophy, some in ecology and physics, some in the Autistic and neurodivergent community, and some I had to make, because the experience arrived before any word for it did. None of them is a deficit. Everything here is written the way the rest of the site is written: neuro-affirming, neuroqueeringly affirming, from the inside of a monotropic, Autistic ADHD bodymind, in relation.
Each entry says what the word means here, where it came from, which essay it lives in, and where to read the source. Many of these words are also in the Stimpunks glossary, which I helped to build with Ryan Boren; the two glossaries are rhizomatic, meant to be read across each other, and this one is the stranger, more philosophical sibling. For the everyday words families and professionals meet first, there is my neuro-affirming glossary on Autistic Realms.
Why a glossary: a language to understand and challenge the world
Words are not decoration. Nick Walker argues that moving from the pathology paradigm to the neurodiversity paradigm demands a radical change of language, because the words for discussing medical problems are the wrong words for discussing human diversity (Throw Away the Master’s Tools). George Lakoff puts the mechanism plainly: “Thinking differently requires speaking differently” (Don’t Think of an Elephant!). Henry Giroux warns of the terror of people becoming too fearful to develop a language in which they can both understand and challenge the world they live in (Pedagogy of Resistance). And Kimberlé Crenshaw: “You cannot change a reality that you cannot name” (FAIR).
That is what this page is for, and what the Stimpunks glossary I helped to build is for: a shared language made by neurodivergent people, so that we can name our realities and change them. bell hooks: “Language is also a place of struggle.”
More coming soon. This is a living glossary and it grows as the writing does. Entries are added, argued with and rewritten; if a word has shifted since you last read it, that is the point.
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Autistic weathering
Living with the weather of the world as it moves through a bodymind: sensory climate, social pressure, the slow accumulation of demand. The idea borrows from Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton’s “weathering”, which treats bodies as weather systems rather than sealed containers. For Autistic people the weather is louder, and burnout is what happens when the forecast is ignored for too long. Neuroqueering Relational Ecologies.
Sources and more: Neimanis and Hamilton, “Weathering”, Feminist Review 118 (2018).
Awe and wonder
The philosopher Helen De Cruz describes awe and wonder as ways of knowing: states that interrupt the ordinary and open us to what we do not yet understand. For monotropic people they are not rare peak experiences but a daily texture, which is why interruption costs so much. Awe, Wonder and Different Ways of Knowing.
Sources and more: Helen De Cruz, Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think (Princeton, 2024).
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Becoming
From Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: nothing is a fixed, finished identity; everything is in process, becoming something else through its encounters. Applied to neurodivergence it refuses the diagnostic snapshot. I am not an Autistic thing; I am Autistic becoming, in relation. Neuroqueer Revolutions and Neuroqueering Deleuze.
Sources and more: Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (1980); Stimpunks glossary.
Bodymind
One word, no hyphen, because mind and body are not two things that happen to be attached. The term comes from disability studies, where Margaret Price gave it its current currency, and it matters for Autistic experience in particular: sensory, emotional and cognitive life are one weather system, and burnout is a bodymind event, never just “mental”. Autistic Burnout, Bodymind and Soul.
Sources and more: Margaret Price, “The Bodymind Problem and the Possibilities of Pain”, Hypatia (2015); Stimpunks glossary.
Body without organs
Deleuze and Guattari’s strangest phrase, taken from Antonin Artaud. Not a body with its organs removed, but a body freed from the fixed organisation imposed on it: this part for seeing, that part for working, this life for producing. I use it for what happens in monotropic flow, floatation and colour, when the organised self loosens and sensation is allowed to spread. Bathing in Colour.
Sources and more: Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, plateau 6, “How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Organs?”
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Cavendish Space
A Stimpunks idea, named after the reclusive scientist Henry Cavendish, for spaces that fit neurodivergent people instead of the other way round. It has three rooms: the cave (solitude and low stimulus), the campfire (small, chosen company) and the watering hole (busy and brief, by choice). Ryan Boren and I built a home for it at cavendish.space. Cavendish Space.
Sources and more: Stimpunks glossary; cavendish.space.
Collective flow, co-tropicality
What happens when monotropic people turn their attention to the same thing together: a shared tunnel, with the depth of individual flow and the warmth of company. Dinah Murray called this co-tropicality. It is the opposite of the small talk that exhausts us, and the basis of every good Autistic gathering I have been part of. Monotropism and Collective Flow.
Sources and more: Fergus Murray, “Me and Monotropism: A unified theory of autism”, The Psychologist (2018); monotropism.org.
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Deterritorialisation
Deleuze and Guattari’s word for the moment a fixed arrangement comes apart: a territory, a habit, a self loses its edges. It can be a catastrophe or a release, and often both. Autistic burnout is a deterritorialisation; so is unmasking. What matters is what re-assembles afterwards. When the Ecology Fractures.
Sources and more: Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus.
Difference
For most philosophy, things are first identical to themselves and then differ. Deleuze reverses it: difference comes first, and identity is a later, partial stabilisation. For neurodiversity this is the whole argument in one move. There is no original normal mind that the rest of us deviate from. Why Difference Comes First.
Sources and more: Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition (1968).
Double empathy problem
Damian Milton’s theory: when people with very different experiences of the world meet, the failure of understanding is mutual. Autistic people are not uniquely bad at empathy; non-Autistic people are just as bad at understanding us, and have the power to make their misunderstanding the official account. The Double Empathy Problem is DEEP.
Sources and more: Damian Milton, “On the ontological status of autism: the double empathy problem”, Disability and Society (2012); Stimpunks glossary.
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Ecological re-assembly
My way of describing burnout recovery, drawing on David Gray-Hammond’s work on the ecosystemic nature of distress. Distress emerges between a person, their relationships, environments and systems, so recovery is not repairing an individual but re-assembling an ecology: fewer demands, safer places, better relationships, time in flow. Autistic Burnout Recovery as Ecological Re-assembly.
Sources and more: David Gray-Hammond, NeuroHub Community; the three-part series begins with Re-worlding Neurodiversity.
Ethodiversity, ethodivergence
Ombre Tarragnat’s term, parallel to biodiversity and neurodiversity: the diversity of behavioural and existential styles across humans and other animals, including needs, rhythms, affects and ways of relating. It contains neurodiversity without being limited to it, because being Autistic, ADHD or Tourettic is somatic and behavioural as well as neurological. Ethodivergence is a way of being that departs from the dominant one. We Are Star Stuff and Ethodivergent Hearth Building.
Sources and more: Ombre Tarragnat, “What is ethodiversity?”, in the Stimpunks glossary; ethodivergence; Tarragnat’s What Would a Neuroqueer Pedagogy Be?, translated on Autistic Realms.
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Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s name for complete absorption in an activity, where time and self-consciousness fall away. For monotropic people flow is not an occasional reward but the natural state of attention when it is allowed to go deep, and it is restorative: time in flow is rest. The Power of Monotropic Flow.
Sources and more: Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (1990); Stimpunks glossary.
The fold
Deleuze, reading Leibniz: the world is not made of separate things but of folds, each continuous with what it folds into. Inside and outside are the same surface, pleated. I use it for monotropic attention, which does not move from object to object but folds the world into itself, and for masking, which is a self folded away. Caverns, Pleats and Folds and Folding Worlds.
Sources and more: Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (1988).
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Hearth building
The practice of making small, warm, chosen places where neurodivergent people can be with others without performing: a fire, not a stage. It is relational work rather than service provision, and it is how most of the communities I belong to actually function. Ethodivergent Hearth Building.
Sources and more: Related: Cavendish Space and mutual aid in the Stimpunks glossary.
Holotropism
Stanislav Grof’s term for states of consciousness that move towards wholeness, the kind reached through breathwork, floatation or deep immersion. I set it beside monotropism because both describe attention pulled all the way in, and because floatation was where I first felt the two meet. Monotropism, Holotropism and Floatation Experiences.
Sources and more: Stanislav Grof; Stimpunks glossary.
Hypnagogic and hypnopompic states
The threshold states at the edge of sleep: hypnagogic as you fall asleep, hypnopompic as you wake. Vivid, liminal, often intensely sensory, and for many Autistic people in burnout the only place where thought moves freely. Autistic Burnout and Liminal Sleep Threshold.
Sources and more: Hypnagogia (overview).
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Interdependence, mutual aid
Against the myth of the independent individual: we are kept alive by each other, and always were. Interdependence is the fact; mutual aid is the practice, people meeting each other’s needs directly, without gatekeepers, as Stimpunks does with its grants and as every neurodivergent community does in a thousand quiet ways. Expanding the Mycelial Network of Care.
Sources and more: Stimpunks glossary and mutual aid in the Stimpunks glossary.
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Liminal, liminality
From the Latin limen, a threshold. The anthropologists Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner used it for the in-between stage of a rite of passage, when you are no longer what you were and not yet what you will be. Much of Autistic life is lived there: between diagnoses, between worlds, between a mask and a self. I have come to treat the threshold as a home rather than a corridor. Neuroqueering in the Liminal Spaces and Betwixt Wall and Window.
Sources and more: Victor Turner, “Betwixt and Between” (1967); Liminality (overview).
Lines of flight
Deleuze and Guattari’s phrase for the paths by which something escapes a fixed system: not retreat but creative departure, the crack through which something new leaves. Neuroqueering is a line of flight out of neuronormativity. Neuroqueer Revolutions.
Sources and more: Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus.
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Ma
A Japanese concept: the interval, the pause, the charged emptiness between things, in music, architecture and conversation. Ma is not absence but the space where meaning gathers. It gave me a way to think about the gaps I live in as potential rather than void. Neuroqueering from the In-Between.
Sources and more: Ma (overview).
Masking, unmasking
Masking is monitoring and suppressing your natural ways of moving, speaking, feeling and reacting in order to pass as neurotypical. Learned early as survival, it costs energy every minute it runs, and it is one of the main roads into burnout. Unmasking is the slow, uneven, often frightening work of letting the natural self back out, which is only safe in places and relationships that will hold it. Masking, Internalised Ableism and Imposter Syndrome.
Sources and more: Stimpunks glossary; Nick Walker on unmasking in Neuroqueer Heresies.
Monotropism
The theory of autism developed by Dinah Murray, Wenn Lawson and Mike Lesser: attention is a limited resource, and in a monotropic mind it is pulled deeply towards a few interests at a time rather than spread across many. Deep focus, difficulty switching, sensory intensity and the cost of interruption all follow. It is the spine of everything on both my sites. The monotropism guide on Autistic Realms; here, Monotropa Uniflora and Monotropism for its history and Dinah Murray.
Sources and more: Murray, Lesser and Lawson, “Attention, monotropism and the diagnostic criteria for autism”, Autism (2005); monotropism.org; Stimpunks glossary.
Monotropic time, spiral time
Time as monotropic people live it: stretched inside an interest, collapsed between interests, looping and spiralling rather than ticking in a line. It explains why clocks feel like enemies and why “a few minutes” can mean anything. Henri Bergson’s distinction between measured time and lived duration is the philosophical root. Monotropic Time and Neuroqueer Temporalities and Neuroqueering Time.
Sources and more: Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will (1889); Stimpunks glossary.
More-than-human, more-than-neurodiversity
David Abram’s phrase “the more-than-human world” reminds us that the human is one node in a living web of animals, plants, weather and ground, not the measure of it. More-than-neurodiversity is my extension of the same move: neurodiversity does not stop at brains, or at humans. Attention, rhythm, sensing and relating are ecological, shared with the moss, the otters and the weather, and that is where ethodiversity, re-worlding and the rhizome come in. Re-worlding Neurodiversity and Mossy Minds and Monotropism.
Sources and more: David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous (1996); Stimpunks glossary.
Mycelium, mycelial networks of care
Fungi connect forests underground, moving nutrients between trees that look separate; Suzanne Simard’s research made this famous. I use mycelium, with the rhizome, for how neurodivergent community actually works: hidden, lateral, interdependent, passing care along threads nobody planned. Mycelium and Rhizome and Expanding the Mycelial Network of Care.
Sources and more: Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree (2021).
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Neuro-holographic thoughts
My phrase for the way monotropic thinking can hold a whole in every part: memories, sensations and ideas layered through one another like a hologram, so that touching one lights up the rest. It is not disorganisation; it is a different geometry of mind. Neuro-Holographic Thoughts and Quantum Neuro-Holographic Thoughts.
Sources and more: Stimpunks glossary.
Neurodiversity, neurodivergent
Neurodiversity is the fact that human minds differ, and the paradigm (Nick Walker’s word) that treats this as natural rather than pathological; the term came out of the online Autistic community and Judy Singer’s 1998 thesis. Neurodivergent, coined by Kassiane Asasumasu in 2000, describes a person whose mind diverges from the norm. What does neurodivergent mean? on Autistic Realms.
Sources and more: Nick Walker, “Neurodiversity: Some Basic Terms and Definitions”; Judy Singer; Stimpunks glossary and neurodivergent.
Neurokin
The people whose minds work like yours: not family by blood but by neurotype, found in the moment someone finally does not need you to explain. A community word, and one of the main reasons neurodivergent community matters so much. Sintering.
Sources and more: Stimpunks glossary.
Neuronormativity, the neuronormative paradigm
The set of norms that treat one way of thinking, feeling, moving and communicating as the right way and everything else as deficit. It is the water we swim in: schools, clinics, workplaces and our own inner voices are built from it. Naming it is the first step in refusing it. The Neuronormative Paradigm.
Sources and more: Stimpunks glossary; Nick Walker, terms and definitions.
Neuroqueer, neuroqueering
Intentionally freeing yourself from the enforced performance of neuronormativity: a verb first, then an adjective, then, for some, an identity. Coined by Nick Walker with Athena Lynn Michaels-Dillon and M. Remi Yergeau. What Is Neuroqueer?.
Sources and more: Nick Walker, “Neuroqueer: An Introduction” and Neuroqueer Heresies (2021); Stimpunks glossary.
Neuroqueer Learning Spaces
A collaboration between Stimpunks and Autistic Realms: learning environments designed around difference rather than compliance, with freedom of embodiment, communication in every form, interest-led attention and room to move between Cavendish spaces. Neuroqueer Learning Spaces and An Open Framework for Neuroqueer Learning Spaces.
Sources and more: Neuroqueer Learning Spaces at Stimpunks.
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Penguin pebbling
Showing love the way some penguins court: by bringing a pebble. Links, memes, facts, small treasures handed over to say “I thought of you.” A community word for an Autistic love language, and now a card game Ryan Boren and I made about belonging. Penguin Pebbling.
Sources and more: Stimpunks glossary; penguinpebbling.app.
Plateau
A plateau, for Deleuze and Guattari (borrowing from Gregory Bateson), is a region of intensity that is sustained rather than building to a climax and collapsing. It is a good description of monotropic flow at its best, and of the kind of community that does not need to peak. Neuroqueering Deleuze.
Sources and more: Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972); Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus.
Polytropism, polytropos
The other attentional style, and no better or worse: many interests lightly aroused at once, attention spread across several channels with less depth in each, easier switching. Most people are somewhere on the spectrum between polytropic and monotropic. Homer calls Odysseus polytropos, the man of many turns, which made me wonder what the epic looks like from a monotropic shore. It’s Complicated: Polytropos, Odysseus and Homer’s Odyssey.
Sources and more: Murray, Lesser and Lawson, Autism (2005); Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson.
Posthumanism
A family of philosophies (Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway and others) that stop treating the rational, independent human as the centre and measure of everything, and see us instead as entangled with animals, environments, technologies and each other. Neurodivergent lives were never well served by the humanist ideal; posthumanism gives us somewhere else to stand. Neuroqueering Relational Ecologies.
Sources and more: Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman (2013); Stimpunks glossary.
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Radical resilience
Resilience reclaimed from the people who use it as a weapon. Not bouncing back to fit a system that harmed you, but the relational, collective strength that lets neurodivergent people and families survive and refuse. Radical Resilience.
Sources and more: Stimpunks glossary.
Re-storying, unknowing
Taking back the story of autism from the case studies, checklists and outcomes that were written about us, and telling it from the inside; and, with it, unknowing: setting down what we were taught to believe. The practice behind the book and course David Gray-Hammond and I made. Autistic Pride: Restorying and Unknowing Autism and Re-Storying Autism.
Sources and more: Gray-Hammond and Edgar, Re-Storying Autism: A Framework for Families, Parents and Carers (2026).
Re-worlding
Not fitting into the world as given, but making other worlds: ecological, relational, neuroqueer futures built from monotropic attention and mutual care. Re-worlding Neurodiversity.
Sources and more: Related: Stimpunks glossary and Stimpunks glossary.
Rhizome, the Autistic rhizome
Deleuze and Guattari’s image of a root system with no centre and no hierarchy, where any point can connect to any other and a broken piece simply grows again. Against the tree, with its trunk and branches and single origin. The Autistic rhizome, in David Gray-Hammond’s phrase, is how our community spreads: sideways, underground, impossible to uproot. Mycelium and Rhizome and Monotropism, Spiral Time and the Rhizome of Memories.
Sources and more: Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, introduction; David Gray-Hammond, the Autistic rhizome; Stimpunks glossary.
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Sintering
How fresh snow becomes strong: separate grains slowly bond at the points where they touch, without melting into one mass. I use it for neurodivergent community building, where people stay themselves and still hold weight together. Sintering: Neurodivergent Community Building.
Sources and more: Related: Stimpunks glossary and Stimpunks glossary.
Spoon theory
Christine Miserandino’s picture of limited energy: you start the day with a handful of spoons and every task costs at least one. It gives neurodivergent and disabled people a shared way to say why “small” things cost so much, as long as it is used to ask for understanding, not better budgeting. Spoon Theory and Autism on Autistic Realms.
Sources and more: Christine Miserandino, The Spoon Theory (2003); Stimpunks glossary.
Star stuff
Carl Sagan’s reminder that every atom heavier than hydrogen in your body was made inside a star. Ryan Boren and I took it as the ground of belonging: you belong here all the way down to the atoms, whatever any system says. Star Stuff and We Are Star Stuff.
Sources and more: Carl Sagan, Cosmos (1980); carlsagan.com.
Stimming
Rhythmic movement, sound or touch that regulates and expresses: rocking, flapping, humming, pacing, fidgeting. Not behaviour to be extinguished but the bodymind’s embodied sensory language, and one of the first things neuroqueering gives back. Stimming as Embodied Sensory Language on Autistic Realms.
Sources and more: Stimpunks glossary.
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Wyrd, weird
Weird comes from the Old English wyrd, fate, the thing that is becoming. The modern insult carries a buried compliment: to be weird is to be in process, outside the invented normal. Weird Pride, every 4 March, takes it back. Wyrd, Weird and the Invention of Normal.
Sources and more: wyrd (etymology); Weird Pride Day; Stimpunks glossary.
Neuroqueer Learning Spaces: working definitions
Ryan Boren and I wrote these in March 2024 as the shared vocabulary of the Neuroqueer Learning Spaces project with Stimpunks. They were working definitions then and they still are: community input is welcome, and most of them now have fuller entries in the Stimpunks glossary.
Sensory safety
Understanding the sensing and perceptual world, especially for neurodivergent people, and being serious about sensory needs in every setting. Not a quiet corner as an afterthought, but light, sound, texture, movement and smell considered first, because without sensory safety nothing else in a learning space can happen.
Sources and more: Neuroqueer Learning Spaces at Stimpunks; see also sensory on More Realms.
Psychological safety
A condition in which you feel included, safe to learn, safe to contribute and safe to challenge the status quo, all without fear of being embarrassed, marginalised or punished in some way. Timothy Clark’s four stages, which we borrowed because they describe exactly what neurodivergent learners are usually denied.
Sources and more: Timothy R. Clark, The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety (2020); Stimpunks glossary.
Learner safety
Safety to engage in the discovery process: to ask questions, experiment, and even make mistakes. The second of Clark’s stages, and the one that compliance-based classrooms destroy first.
Sources and more: Timothy R. Clark, The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety (2020); Stimpunks glossary.
Embodiment
Staying present in our own bodies, to sensations, emotions and the external environment, without going into dysregulation, without going into fight, flight, freeze or fawn. Freedom of embodiment is the ground of a neuroqueer learning space.
Sources and more: Stimpunks glossary; Nick Walker, Neuroqueer Heresies (2021).
Regulation
Tending to and responding to the body’s needs. Regulation is not self-control imposed from outside; it is the ongoing, often shared, work of meeting sensory, emotional and physical needs as they arise (see co-regulation).
Sources and more: Co-regulation in the Stimpunks glossary.
Caves, campfires and watering holes
David Thornburg’s three primordial learning spaces, which Stimpunks turned into Cavendish Space. Caves are spaces for quiet reflection, introspection and directed learning. Campfires are spaces for learning with a storyteller: a teacher, mentor, elder or expert. Watering holes are spaces for social learning with peers. A neuroqueer learning space lets you move between all three, by choice.
Sources and more: David Thornburg, From the Campfire to the Holodeck (2013); Caves, campfires and watering holes; Cavendish Space at Stimpunks; Cavendish Space on More Realms.
Intermittent collaboration
Group work punctuated by breaks to think and work by ourselves. The research finding that groups which alternate between working together and working apart solve problems better than groups that never separate, which happens to describe how monotropic people collaborate best.
Sources and more: Stimpunks glossary; David Thornburg, From the Campfire to the Holodeck (2013).
Niche construction
Directly modifying the environment in such a way that it enhances someone’s chances for success. Borrowed from evolutionary biology, where organisms shape the niches they live in; in a learning space it means changing the room, the rules and the rhythm rather than the learner.
Sources and more: Stimpunks glossary.
Flow state
The experience of complete absorption in the present moment, which for monotropic people is the natural state of attention allowed to go deep. See the main entry on flow above.
Sources and more: Stimpunks glossary.
Cognitive liberty
The idea that individuals have the right to absolute sovereignty over their own minds and their own cognitive processes. Nick Walker names it as one of the freedoms neuroqueering claims; in education it means no one else owns the shape of your attention.
Sources and more: Nick Walker, Neuroqueer Heresies (2021); Stimpunks glossary.
Somatic liberty
Freedom of embodiment: freedom to indulge, adopt and experiment with any styles or quirks of movement and embodiment, whether they come naturally or whether one chooses them. The freedom to give bodily expression to one’s neurodivergence, to stim, rock, pace and sit however the body needs to.
Sources and more: Nick Walker, Neuroqueer Heresies (2021); Stimpunks glossary.
Neurological pluralism
The multiplicity of different bodyminds with diverse and conflicting needs coexisting peaceably and interdependently. The goal of a neuroqueer learning space is not one accommodation but a plural space where conflicting needs are negotiated with care.
Sources and more: Stimpunks glossary; Nick Walker, Neuroqueer Heresies (2021).
What is missing
Plenty. A glossary like this is always behind the work. Words I use and have not yet pinned down here include symphrenia (from From the Edge of the Gyre), Erin Manning’s minor gesture, queer time, the Deleuzian plane of immanence, Jorn Bettin’s neurodivergent collaboration, relational ethodiversity, and the Autistic physics that runs through the CASY writing. Several words here are not yet in the Stimpunks glossary either: autistic weathering, collective flow, the fold, hearth building, liminality, Ma, mycelial care, plateau, polytropism, re-storying, re-worlding, sintering, star stuff, unmasking and wyrd among them. They are on the list.
If you have met a word on More Realms that is not here, or you think one of these is wrong, tell me. Glossaries made by one person are only ever drafts; this one is meant to be made together.
Other glossaries
This glossary sits inside a wider, growing vocabulary made by neurodivergent people. Start with the Stimpunks glossary, over 450 terms with their sources, which Ryan Boren and I built together with the Stimpunks community.
- Neuro-affirming glossary of key words for families and professionals, my everyday glossary on Autistic Realms
- Neuro-affirming language and glossaries, why language matters, with the free glossary download
- Neuroaffirmative neurodivergent flashcards, Catherine Flynn, Neurofriendly Therapy
- Autistic glossary, AMASE
- Autism glossary, Aurora Autistic Consulting
- The words we use, CommunicationFIRST
- Words that make me go hmmm, Rewriting Social Care
- Parley vous health and social care? An A to Z of carespeak, Mark Neary
- Voices of Neurodiversity: An Inclusive Encyclopaedia (Routledge)
- The full list lives at Other glossaries on Stimpunks

Courses, books and resources
If you would like to take these ideas further, my courses, books and resources live on Autistic Realms. Everything in the shop is pay what you can, and many resources are free.
- Re-Storying Autism course: a video course and workbook with David Gray-Hammond.
- Building a Positive Autistic Identity: a gentle, self-paced course written for Autistic people.
- Embracing Monotropism: my book on monotropism and preventing Autistic burnout.
- Re-Storying Autism (book): co-written with David Gray-Hammond.
- An Introduction to the Theory of Monotropism: a free e-book.
- The Autistic Realms shop: over 380 resources, pay what you can and many free.
