Human-centered support + open tools that help disabled and neurodivergent people.
At Stimpunks, we don’t do charity — we build infrastructure. We provide practical support, tools, and community-centered resources that help disabled and neurodivergent people navigate real life with dignity. Our services are grounded in lived experience, transparency, and mutual aid — not compliance or deficit models.
What We Provide
Mutual Aid Grants
Direct cash support for disabled and neurodivergent people facing urgent needs, access gaps, or barriers created by broken systems.
- Quick, low-barrier application
- Respectful, non-stigmatizing process
- You’re welcome to reapply
Creator Grants
Small project grants for disabled and neurodivergent creators building community resources, research, art, education, tools, or lived-experience frameworks.
- Supports work that serves community
- Flexible use of funds
- Peer-centered review
Public Educational Resources
Open access resources that help people understand neurodiversity, disability justice, access, regulation, and systems — in plain language and lived experience.
- Hubs and pathways for learning
- Field guides for survival and practice
- Zine walls and portable tools
Access & Design Tools
Practical tools for making real environments more welcoming and functional — built from lived experience and tested in real life.
- Sensory checklists
- Cavendish Space patterns
- Interaction & communication access templates
- Venue and event accessibility guides
How We Work Together
Mutual aid, not charity
We provide support as interdependence in action — not pity, not saviorism, not gatekeeping.
Default to open
Most of our tools, guides, and frameworks are free and public so others can reuse and adapt them.
Lived experience leads
Disabled and neurodivergent voices shape the work we do — and how we do it.
Design for range, not average
We build for human variability — not a mythical “normal.”
Who We Serve
- Disabled and neurodivergent individuals
- Educators and designers seeking better practices
- Organizers and community leaders
- Allies who want to act in solidarity, not saviorism
Help is for people, not paperwork. You do not need to prove worth — you only need to show real human need.
Why These Services Exist
Systems often fail disabled and neurodivergent people: schools impose compliance over care, healthcare treats difference as pathology, access is patchy or nonexistent, and “normalcy” is enforced at the cost of dignity. Stimpunks builds alternatives that work for real life.
Accountability & Transparency
We publish our policies, finances, and decision frameworks because accountability is part of care.
Ready to Get Started?
Need direct support?
Start with Mutual Aid Grants.
Have a project idea?
Check Creator Grants.
Want to support the work?
Help fund care infrastructure.
The price of relevance is fluency.
And in fact, that’s the simple price of continued cultural relevance. If someone wants to maintain power in culture, all that’s required is a sincere and honest engagement with those who are granting that power through their attention and support. All it takes is a little bit of curiousity and some basic human decency, and any of us who are blessed with the good fortune to have a platform will get to keep it, and hopefully to use it to make things a little better for others.
The price of relevance is fluency
We are neurodivergent and disabled consultants specializing in neurodiversity, disability, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We can help you and your organization become equity literate digital sociologists in touch with the communities you serve. We do this while fulfilling our mission to “pay neurodivergent and disabled creators and amplify them to our clients and throughout society.”
We help businesses and organizations increase their knowledge and practice of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) by analyzing company practices and coaching leaders to dismantle ableism in their spaces. According to the Harvard Business Review, “There are more than one billion people worldwide – around 15% of the population – living with a disability. As workers, they can ease talent shortages and add to the organizational diversity that drives better decision-making and innovation.” Neurodiversity-friendly forms of collaboration hold the potential to transform pathologically competitive and toxic teams and cultures into highly collaborative teams and larger cultural units that work together easier and with more success.
Our additional services include digital and physical accessibility audits, sensitivity reads, and other offerings that focus on increasing DEI in the workplace. Client services are how we live our mission to employ neurodivergent and disabled people as well as how we raise capital for grantmaking.
“The price of relevance is fluency.” Are you fluent? We are minority bodyminds with our own ways of being and right to be our authentic selves at work, school, and play. Understand our wiring, and know our rights.
Understand our wiring, and know our rights.
We, Stimpunks
So no matter what you set out to do—whether on your own, as a member of an organization, or as its director—you need to understand how you and other people are wired.
Understand the power that comes from knowing how you and others are wired.
Principles: Life and Work
The diversity racket is this: thinking that this is an intellectual exercise in being magnanimous, not a matter of survival.
The Diversity Racket. Diversity in STEM (science, technology… | by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein | Medium
Our Services
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Belonging coaching
- Digital sociology coaching
- Productivity coaching (specializing in the Apple ecosystem)
- Research coaching (specializing in the Apple ecosystem)
- Website building (specializing in the WordPress ecosystem)
- Sensitivity reads
- Digital and physical accessibility audits
- Neurodiversity at work
- Neurodiversity at school
- Flow patrol
- Accessible communication practices
- Distributed methodologies and culture
- Designing for real life
- Designing for neurological pluralism
- Designing for the edges
- Establishing Employee Resource Groups
- Fostering belonging
- Connecting with subcultures
- Creating serendipity
- Research
Neurodiversity friendly forms of collaboration hold the potential to transform pathologically competitive and toxic teams and cultures into highly collaborative teams and larger cultural units that work together more like an organism rather than like a group of fighters in an arena.
Autistic forms of communication within a neurodiverse team and within a psychologically safe environment actually impart a collaborative advantage to the entire team.
Organising for neurodivergent collaboration | Autistic Collaboration
Our services are offered remotely and accessibly using the practices of distributed work. If you are in the Austin, Texas area, we can do physical accessibility audits.
Our fees help fund our mission.
The speed of change outside an organization now favors the leader who explores, monitors the periphery, and extends the field of vision for the entire organization.
The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovatio
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