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a Marsden Fast Start research project
Not everyone experiences the internet the same way. For people with ADHD, being online, or taking breaks from it, can bring benefits and challenges that differ from neurotypical users. This project uses disability studies to uncover how ableist ideas shape our assumptions about what “healthy” disconnection should look like.
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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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DISCONNECT
It draws from disability studies to critique normative and ableist assumptions behind the concept of disconnecting.
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