If you have any problems along the way, please email Diana at d.n.m.beljaars@swansea.ac.uk

The set up of this padlet and workshop are inspired by Mary Robson's creative facilitation work at the Institutue for Medical Humanities, Durham University.

We ask you to join us in ensuring that this workshop creates a dynamic, friendly, intellectually enriching and harassment-free environment for everyone, regardless of age, disability, race, religion and/or belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, neurodivergence, or physical appearance. 

All communication should be appropriate for an audience including people of many different backgrounds and experiences. Please be kind to others. 

If you have any concerns about behaviour you have experienced or witnessed, please approach Diana Beljaars.

Thank you for helping make this a welcoming and friendly experience for all. 

I'm suspected neurodivergent with ADHD, autism, and minor OCD sensibilities but have no diagnosis. I also grew up in a strongly neurodivergent family ith Tourette's, ADHD, OCD, and autism.

I'm a researcher at Swansea University, I’m interested in spatial manifestations of compulsion and neurodiversity, as well as the knowledge formation and institutional responses to them. I’m a cultural and disability geographer, working on the intersections with the medical humanities, continental philosophy, disability studies, and compulsion-related neuropsychiatry. I wrote principles of a spatial theory of Tourettic compulsion in Compulsive Body Spaces (Routledge, 2022), and work with neurodivergent individuals, advocacy groups, the Welsh government, and medical and clinical scientists. Currenty, I'm part of a healthcare services research team at PRIME Centre Wales.

5-minute introduction of all attendees

10-minute sense-making talk from me

3 minutes of thinking what is relatable and writing down

15 minutes: Small group discussions on what you found remarkable and what is relatable: please write on padlet

20 minutes: sharing with the group

10-minute break

3 minutes thinking about how thinking with compulsivity and environment could help gain insights into your particular set of sensibilities

25 minutes: sharing with the group + discussion

3. Can you think of a place or space that makes you irritable or stressed just for being in it? Do you expect this to happen and do you do anything to avoid feeling

this way?

4. Do you have rituals or routines in certain spaces?

5. Have you organised spaces in certain ways to avoid doing something?

daniel.jones2@sheffield.ac.uk

I am a crip-queer scholar of disability and creative practitioner working across the fine and performing arts, with a research interest in Tourette Syndrome, impulsivity, and public space. I am multiply disabled and neurodivergent, notably being diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome and ME/CFS.

I'm a Research Associate at Sheffield University who is particularly interested in inclusive, creative research methods and in Tourette Syndrome. My current post focuses on innovating anti-ableist approaches to research culture. I have published across a variety of disciplines, and have worked in participatory ways with Tourettic community groups and charitable organisations, and am currently preparing to edit a special issue on Critical Neurodiversity Studies.

With ME/CFS, I feel compelled to push through fatigue and burnout out of frustration and possibly stubborness. If I give into the compulsion of wanting to be as active and engaged in social events as I used to be prior to the onset of ME/CFS, I will be paying the price for a long time afterwards. It's a compulsion that I do not have the privilege of giving in to, as the stakes are a lot higher

With ADHD, I might feel compelled to touch objects as per my answer for prompt 1