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Neurodivergent Tender Map (for the arts) 

Created from Autumn 2025 to early Spring 2026 as part of Sanctuary Sessions pilot series.

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The following map is broken down over 9 pages and includes outlined imagery and text compontents. 

This ma....

Every month I set a prompt: ''What ways would you like to work with others (if at all)? What would your ideal timing (Crip time),
needs and connection look like?",
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Every month I set a prompt: 'Communication difference(s): what is your communication style/difference? Do you feel understood or misunderstood? What arts communication presumptoins are a barrier for you? Do some expects communication methods exhaust you or give you energy? Could you offer ideas, tips and and/or workarounds to others which work for you? 
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Each month I set a prompt:  Your energy in practice: internal experience compared to external experience. Are you expected or do you expect to 'push through' often? Are you able to find peace or rest when you need to? 

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Every month I set a prompt to discuss: 'In condemnation are we loosing something? Have you been corrected out of your lived experience?' 

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Each month I set a prompt to discuss:  'This months prompt is: Is there such a thing as Neurodivergent arts? Does Neurodivergent Arts sit within Disability Arts, or does it have its own space? '

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Pleased to announce “Sanctuary Sessions” will be starting from Thursday 25th September and kindly hosted by @puzzlebored in the centre of Brighton!  When:  Thursday 25th September 2025. And the last Thursday every month.  What time: From 4 pm to 6 pm  Where: Puzzle Bored Cafe, in the ND friendly room on the 2nd floor. 27 New Road, Brighton, BN....

Missing

Missing the depth of warm conversation(s)

Not combat ready talk, full of only glass shards and bullets 'Prove it' retort cycles …………. policed all utterances

Missing heart led flow and pause Plural spacious active void of multiples and ocean of interacting phenomena

Missing time with unpoisoned smiles
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Hello,

Some may have seen the new Ought issue details over on my Instagram account before Christmas but if you missed it please see the Fall issue of ‘Ought the Journal of Autistic Culture’. This issue focuses on ‘Neurodivergent Works in Neurotypical Workspaces’.

Thank you to our cover artist Holly Sheldrake @art.hgs (Instagram) whose powerful piece ....

Ought The Journal for Autistic Culture. Spring 2024.  'Autistic Aesthetics'  edition. 

Please see the Spring edition of 'Ought the Journal of Autistic Culture'. This edition focuses on 'Autistic Aesthetics'. As ever, we would like to thank all  our contributers as we couldn't do this without them. And thank you to our cover artist Dylan Mackenzie who's p....

Pernille Fraser, 2024 #notionsandspatialgravities

The delivery of  Truths:  Mythologies 

*Image: 'Angry mouths.' Pernille Fraser, 2024.  Augmented news imagery. 

'The truth hurts!' they say. This is in fact a generalised untruth. 

The truth doesn't always hurt and doesn't always have to be delivered in a scathing way. 

A little game: 

Do almost all livi....

Ought The Journal for Autistic Culture. Autumn/Fall 2023.  'Critical Autism Studies'  edition. 


Cover Artist Sonia Boue 

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Enso Interchange 


By Pernille Fraser, Mixed media and photography. 2020

#moodtransmission #feltwarmth #feltcold

Contradiction of  ‘mistakes’
‘Make mistakes’! ‘Learn from mistakes’

‘Don’t do that’ mistakes ‘Be brave’ mistakes

‘Laugh at your mistakes’ ‘Not like that’ mistakes

Request help with ‘content mistakes’ ….. ……get corr....

Potential:  The space between the vibrant edges 


'Potential: The space between the vibrant edges'. Pernille Fraser. Mixed media and digital manipulation 2023

Some words I often sense are relegated are 'potential' and 'possibilities'. Negative forebearance superseeding their resonance. These words echos. 
#potential #possibilities #thespaceb....

Different changing Novembers

Storm rain succession
Occasional rays to bask 
Leaves not fully dropped 
Green barely yellow
ladybird two and five spot walk around windows
Spiders not fully arrived yet.


Pernille Fraser, 2023

#biasinquestioning #doubleempathyproblem #selfspacedrain

PF 2019

#doubleempathyproblems #stiltedinteractions #criticalityforcriticalityssake? #tellingactions #selfspaceevaporation #problematisingtheproblematisers  #learnerautonomy 

Ought The Journal for Autistic Culture . 'The Internet' edition 



Art work by Artist Jon Adams 

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