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Neurodivergent Tech Week 2026

Welcome! Neurodivergent Tech Week is a fandom event where you get to create fanworks about Tech being autistic or otherwise neurodivergent in some way and post them from July 25th to August 2. It is also a celebration of the space that The Bad Batch fandom has created for autistic/neurodivergent people and our allies! Here’s how it works:

1. People can submit prompts up until July 12. I will then release two lists of prompts — one SFW and another NSFW — that you can pick from each day of the event. There are no restrictions on what prompts you do on what day.

2. Starting on July 26th, you can post fanworks and tag them as #ndTechWeek2026. I will reblog them to this blog.

3. NSFW submissions will be tagged as such and placed under a content label so that they are not visible to minors.

Ready to get started? Here are some relevant links:

Event Rules

Why Not Just “Autistic Tech Week”

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Happy Disability Pride Month!

Just a quick heads-up: you have five more days left to submit prompts, so if there is one that you really want to see added, feel free to submit it now!

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Why Not Just Autistic Tech Week?

This is a concern that I’ve seen raised, and I wanted to clear the air about it in one post. Tech is more or less canonically autistic, and I can kind of see why some might interpret me using the broader term “neurodivergent” as an attempt to somehow downplay that. I want to reassure you that this is not and never was my goal.

Neurodivergent conditions can be radically different, but many still have overlapping traits or even present together in the same person! Someone like Tech might also have ADHD in addition to being autistic, and some people with conditions like OCD, NVLD, and ADHD might relate to some experiences of autistic people and by extension, Tech. I want to make this event a safe space to explore both autism and co-occurring/adjacent conditions. Many people experience autism alongside co-occurring conditions that overlap so much with autism that it’s hard to tell where one ends and another begins. Your Mod (me!) is Autistic and also has ADHD and OCD. These three conditions are so entangled that it’s hard to tell which one is responsible for a particular trait or symptom, and I think that people in this community who deal with a similar configuration of disabilities should have space to explore that complexity through Tech.

I also don’t want to invoke gatekeeping in any way, shape or form. We are currently in the midst of a moral panic about people “faking” autism and other neurodevelopmental disabilities, and these accusations of fakery disproportionately effect populations who are under-diagnosed and thus, underrepresented in autism related media (ie: women, POC, adults, etc) and I don’t want to invite that kind of cruelty here. Hell, Tech himself is an adult man of color, so he doesn’t 100% fit the stereotypical autism profile, either!

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Hey folks! We are in the middle of taking prompts! Anything that can be used as a creative springboard for a Tech fanwork exploring autism and/or neurodivergence in general is welcome.

The event itself will start on July 25. Learn more here!

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Hello everyone!

We are still seeking prompt submissions for Neurodivergent Tech Week, so don’t be shy! The deadline for submissions in July 12.

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Submissions are officially open for Neurodivergent Tech Week 2026 prompts. You may submit any prompt that somehow centers Tech and autism and/or other neurodivergences. NSFW submissions are allowed, but will be placed behind a content warning label and reside on our alternative “After Dark” prompt list.

More information about the event can be found here.