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a Marsden Fast Start research project
Not everyone experiences the internet the same way. For people with ADHD (formally and self-diagnosed) being online, or taking breaks from it, can bring benefits and challenges that differ from neurotypical users. This project uses a range of creative and critical methods to open up new, playful ways for people with ADHD to reshape their digital environments and manage their screen time on their own terms.
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ADHD
CRIP

People with ADHD hold a key to understanding the future of attention, because people with ADHD are early indicators of how many minds now operate in a stimulus rich world.

Crip Time✕

This project uses the theoretical framework of crip time to examine the interrelationship between people, digital technologies, temporality, and social norms around productivity. Crip time is about bending the clock to suit disabled bodies and minds, rather than forcing disabled bodies and minds to meet the clock.

Often at the root of calls to disconnect is a fear of cognitive difference, becoming unproductive or anything other than what currently counts as neurotypical.

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Our research uses insights from disability studies and neurodivergence scholarship to challenge taken-for-granted ideas about what it means to ‘disconnect,’ especially when those ideas privilege certain minds or ways of being.
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Beyond the study

The Tools

Saving Screen Time isn't only a study. Alongside the research we build small, free tools — playful experiments in screen time, and additional outputs of the project. Three are out now, with more on the way.

Browser Extension

Screen Space Defacer

Scratch, smear, and scribble back at the ads that fill your screen — the whole web becomes your canvas.

Deface Your Screen ↗
Screen Time Tool

Screen Time Horoscope

The stars aligned — your apps didn't. Get a personalised celestial reading based on your screen time.

Get Your Horoscope ↗
Object — DIY

Cosy Charger

A handmade phone “bed”. Charging becomes a ritual, not a restriction — disconnection becomes care, not deprivation.

Make the Bed ↗
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