Map of Monotropic Experiences

Rhizomatic Communities

Connection

In plain words

Lots of small Autistic groups, all joined up. Nobody is in charge. If one group stops, the rest carry on.

A growing and evolving network of Autistic communities with no hierarchy or dependence on anothers existence.

Helen Edgar — in their own words

What changes this

No single point of failure. A rhizome survives because nothing at its centre can be captured — which is also why it resists being organised into something legible by an institution.

Where it is on the map

Area 8 of twenty, printed on the map as Rhizomatic Communities. It borders:

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