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NEURODIVERSE AND TRANSMUNDANE

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Christine Sun Kim: The World is Sound

Artist Christine Sun Kim discusses her newest series, “The Sound Of,” as seen in the exhibition The World Is Sound.Learn More: http://rubinmuseum.org/mediace...

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Susan Te Karangi King

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Silent witness: the outsider art of Susan Te Kahurangi King

She stopped speaking aged four, and has since communicated only through her acutely detailed drawings. As her first UK exhibition opens, her sister and curator reveal an extraordinary life – and talent

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Confusion over why autism is so prevalent among transgender people may be limiting their access to medical care.

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"Luhrmann said that American clinicians 'sometimes treat the voices heard by people with psychosis as if they are the uninteresting neurological byproducts of disease which should be ignored. Our work found that people with serious psychotic disorder in different cultures have different voice-hearing experiences. That suggests that the way people pay attention to their voices alters what they hear their voices say. That may have clinical implications.'” 

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IN DEFENCE OF DE-PERSONS | GUTS Canadian Feminist Magazine

For those of us who have emerged in relationship to rather than via self-determination, how does the affirmation of de-person-ness offer a new form of political agency? Johanna Hedva foregrounds interdepency, care, and solidarity in her defence of the undercommons

“The aporia of Sick Woman Theory is that it requires a cruelly optimistic humanism: to construct and nurture a version of a human against a version of the human—and it still relies upon the master’s tools of enforcing discrete selfhood and self-possession. This universalizing move is what Ahmed would call a ‘melancholic universalism’: ‘the requirement to identify with the universal that repudiates you.’”

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Representations of grapheme-colour synaesthesia.

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Representation of several numbers by Daniel Tammet, English writer, essayist, translator, and autistic savant, based on his experience of Grapheme-color synesthesia.

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The prohibition of MDMA and hallucinogenic mushrooms restricts "cognitive liberty," according to some activists.

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Susan Te Kahurangi King stopped speaking at the age of 4 (for reasons that have never been attributed to a specific disability).  She immediately commenced a voracious drawing practice, mainly focused in the medium of pencil crayon and graphite.

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Chopin probably had temporal lobe epilepsy. 

In her memoirs, his lover George Sand recalled various times when Chopin experienced visual hallucinations, including during a trip to a monastery that was "full of terrors and ghosts for him".  In a letter written to the daughter of George Sand, Chopin himself describes a moment, during a performance of his Sonata in B flat minor in England in 1848 at a private salon, when he saw creatures emerging from his piano which forced him to leave the room to recover himself.

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Guo Fengyi

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