Article Series
The Journal of Neurotypical Studies organises its publications into thematic series. Each series represents a sustained investigation into a particular aspect of how neurotypical systems understand, misunderstand, or fail to understand disability.
Super Autism
Reframing high-intensity autism as environmental sensitivity, not behavioral pathology. Articles exploring autonomic instability, sensory overload, and why "severe autism" labels miss the point.
Pollute the World, Deny the Damage, Cut the Supports
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.
Reverse Pathology
Turning the clinical gaze back on neurotypical systems. What happens when we analyze bureaucratic behavior with the same rigor applied to autistic people?
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
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.
NDIS & Systems
Documentation of systemic failures, bureaucratic absurdity, and the gap between policy intent and participant experience.
Behaviour: A Field Guide to Diagnostic Overshadowing
This review argues that 'behaviour' is frequently deployed not as description but as an interpretive technology that produces diagnostic overshadowing: the conversion of pain, sensory distress, trauma responses, medical needs, and environmental mismatch into 'noncompliance' or 'behaviour of concern.' Drawing on Hacking's account of classification and Rosenhan's demonstration of institutional interpretive capture, this paper proposes that 'behaviour' functions as an administrative slot that can override alternative explanations and restrict access to support.
Disability Epistemology
Who gets believed? How does "evidence" work in disability systems? Articles on lived experience, epistemic injustice, and knowledge hierarchies.
Creativity as Containment: A Structural Analysis of Neurotypical Tolerance for Imagination and Intolerance for Intuition
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.
Environment & Sensory
The built environment as a source of harm. Fluorescent warfare, EMF sensitivity, and why "behavior" is often a rational response to hostile conditions.
Super Autism & The Great TV Extinction: Autonomic Spikes, Electronic Devices and Why the Fun End of the Spectrum Keeps Smashing Screens
Household report documents the loss of 8 televisions, multiple Google Nests, phones, and air filtration units, all destroyed by one autistic young man (Axel) during periods of severe pain and autonomic chaos. To investigate whether this is 'challenging behaviour' or a perfectly rational act of environmental modification by someone whose nervous system is being affected by EMFs. We propose retiring 'severe autism' and replacing it with 'Super Autism': a state of extreme environmental sensitivity + autonomic instability + ancient survival skills.