Map of Monotropic Experiences

Rhizomatic Communities

Connection

Rhizome — drawn with shapes from the map builder, which you can use to draw your own.

In plain words

A rhizome is a root that spreads sideways and puts up new shoots. Lots of small Autistic groups, joined up like that. Some meet online and some meet in person. 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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