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▶ Table of Contents

  1. How Pattern Paths Work
  2. Pattern Paths
    1. Overload → Recovery
    2. Attention → Learning
    3. Social Energy → Participation
    4. Masking → Authenticity
    5. Burnout → Sustainable Environments
  3. Explore the Pattern Language

Pattern Paths are guided routes through the Stimpunks pattern language. They show how experiences, patterns, and environments connect.

Most people don’t discover ideas one page at a time. They follow journeys. Pattern Paths connect experiences to explanations and then to practical design changes. Each path shows how neurodivergent life, environments, and systems interact.

How Pattern Paths Work

Experience
↓
Pattern
↓
Design Recipe
↓
Environment
↓
System Change

This structure helps people move from recognizing their own experiences to understanding the patterns behind them and redesigning environments to support human diversity.

Pattern Paths

Overload → Recovery

Sensory Overload
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Sensory Load
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Regulation First
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Preventing Autistic Burnout
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Neurodivergent Workplaces

This path explains how overload happens and how environments can support recovery and sustainability.

Attention → Learning

Deep Attention
↓
Monotropism
↓
Spiky Profiles
↓
Processing Time
↓
Designing a Neurodivergent Classroom
↓
Neurodivergent Classrooms

This path explains how attention works and how learning environments can support deep focus.

Social Energy → Participation

Social Exhaustion
↓
Social Energy
↓
Access Modes
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Designing Inclusive Meetings
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Inclusive Meetings

This path shows how social energy affects participation and how meetings can be redesigned to support diverse communication styles.

Masking → Authenticity

Masking Pressure
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Environment Fit
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The Myth of the Average User
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Broken Systems, Not Broken People
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Authenticity Is Our Purest Freedom

This path connects individual survival strategies to systemic design problems.

Burnout → Sustainable Environments

Social Exhaustion
↓
Social Energy
↓
Energy Accounting
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Burnout Threshold
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Preventing Autistic Burnout
↓
Neurodivergent Workplaces

This path explains burnout as a systems design problem rather than a personal failure.

Explore the Pattern Language

Pattern Paths turn ideas into journeys. They help people move from understanding their experience to redesigning the world.