Volume 1, Issue 1

Inclusion Was Never Optional, You Just Treated It Like Formatting

Axel Andersen1 June 20242 pages104 KB

inclusion accessibility epistemology research authorship

Abstract

Inclusion has long been positioned as an adjunct to scholarship: a post-hoc consideration applied after intellectual work is complete. This framing is untenable. Recent scholarship on Paired Inclusive Research Dissemination (PIRD) makes explicit what disabled scholars have experienced for decades: the inclusive artefact is not a translation of scholarship—it IS scholarship. This editorial argues that disability research has historically mined disabled people for data while stripping their contributions of authorship and attribution.

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This paper advances one of the most significant findings in Neurotypical Studies to date: the same society capable of profiting from environmental harm, denying its effects, and misreading distress as 'behaviour' will then present disabled people as the real budget problem. The pattern was never hidden—it was visible the entire time. The paper focuses on Super Autism: those hit first by environmental harm, speaking first through distress, behaviour, overload and physiological collapse, and listened to last. If a system helps create the conditions of harm, ignores the earliest signals, and then blames the harmed for the cost of surviving it—the problem is not the disabled person. The problem is the system.

Last In, First Out: Disability Rights as the Earliest Casualty of Democratic Backsliding

A satirical-serious conceptual analysis of normality, administrative convenience, and the authoritarian urge. This article examines how disability rights are systematically deprioritised in moments of democratic stress, functioning as a canary in the coalmine for broader erosions of rights and protections.

The Stillness Industrial Complex: Why Neurotypicals Don't Stim (In Public), and Why They Police Ours

An investigation into the perplexing absence of visible stimming among neurotypicals and the parallel enthusiasm for suppressing other people's stimming. Findings suggest neurotypicals do stim, but in camouflage (leg bouncing under tables, cuticle excavation, marathon 'coffee walks'). Visible, joyful stimming is reclassified as 'disruptive' because it fails the national test of Professional Statuesque—the belief that stillness equals competence and vibration equals mutiny.

Vol. 2, No. 3

Creativity as Containment: A Structural Analysis of Neurotypical Tolerance for Imagination and Intolerance for Intuition

Axel Andersen20 Dec 20245 pages

This paper examines a persistent cultural phenomenon: neurotypical populations enthusiastically endorse 'creativity' while demonstrating marked discomfort toward intuition, shared consciousness, or other forms of non-linear knowing frequently reported by neurodivergent individuals. We propose that creativity is socially tolerated because it is symbolically contained within the domain of fiction, whereas intuition implies unsanctioned access to pattern recognition without hierarchical approval.

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Vol. 1, No. 1

Data Over Dignity: Evidence Hierarchies in Disability Bureaucracies

Axel Andersen20 Sept 20245 pages

Drawing on the emerging field of Reverse Pathology, we analyse how disability systems construct implicit hierarchies of evidence that privilege bureaucratically convenient data while systematically devaluing lived experience, clinical judgement, and relational knowledge. This constitutes a form of epistemic injustice against disabled people whose knowledge is deemed unreliable by virtue of who they are. What is commonly described as 'rigour' is more accurately understood as administrative self-soothing.

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Vol. 9, No. 2

Fear of the Machine

Axel Andersen AI Assisted3 Oct 20269 pages

This paper examines why Australians are among the most frightened people on Earth about artificial intelligence. Australia ranked lowest of 47 countries in believing the benefits of AI outweigh the risks, and half of Australians use it regularly anyway. The Journal finds that AI performs well at the tasks most rewarded in neurotypical professional life: sounding confident, summarising the meeting and writing the email about the meeting. It does not check whether any of it is true. Checking, literal reading, pattern noticing and saying the thing are roles neurodivergent people have performed without pay or job titles. The Journal proposes the Task Reallocation Hypothesis: AI takes neurotypical jobs and creates neurodivergent roles.

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Vol. 1, No. 1

The Label That Ate the Support System: How Institutions Claim to Support 'Severe Autism' While Demonstrating They Don't Know What They're Talking About

Axel Andersen20 May 202410 pages

Neurotypical institutions routinely claim to 'support severe autism' while demonstrating conceptual and empirical incoherence: the category is inconsistently defined, treated as a behavioural nuisance, and systematically under-represented in autism research. Using a reverse-pathology framework, this paper analyses the Label-Support Paradox: a system cannot credibly claim to support a population whose defining features it fails to describe, measure, include, or even admit it has excluded. Proposes 'Super Autism' as an alternative framing.

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