on the street · every screening relaxed · house lights up · captions on
A picture house on the street
The Lightbulb Picture House
Every screening is a relaxed screening. The house lights stay up.
A lot of us found out who we were from a video. Somebody on a screen described a life that turned out to be ours — the textures, the plans that fell apart, the conversations that went sideways for no reason anybody would name — and something switched on. This picture house is named for that moment, and for the short film on its first screen that calls it a lightbulb moment.
Most of what is showing here was made by the people it is about. Every screen is one of our own playlists, and every film on them has a card on a rack saying who made it, how long it runs and what is in it, before you press anything.
Every screening is a relaxed screening
- The house lights stay up. Nobody sits in the dark who did not ask to.
- The captions are on. Every screen here asks for them before the film starts, and you can switch them off in the player.
- Nothing plays until you press it, nothing plays before the film you chose, and the volume is yours.
- Move, stim, rock, pace, flap, hum, sit on the floor, lie across three seats. Nobody shushes anybody.
- Bring your ear defenders, or borrow the pair hung on the seat in the second row.
- Come in late and leave early. You can walk out in the middle of a film and walk back in at the end of it, and nobody will ask why.
- Every film on a rack tells you what is in it before you press play — how long it runs, and anything you might want to know first, from a panic attack to a sponsor segment. Every screen has a rack under it, and every rack folds away if you would rather not scroll past it.
Nothing in this building is blue. Every April, autism charities run by parents and professionals light landmarks up blue, and autistic people have been saying for years what they think of it — one of them, below, better than we could. The bulbs here are warm on purpose, there is no puzzle piece anywhere in the place, and the ornament over the screen is the gold infinity — Autistic UK’s, from Au, the chemical symbol for gold.
Awareness says: Donate to the awesome organizations that have all the pretty puzzle pieces and all the pretty blue lights!
Amy Sequenzia, I Don’t Want Your Awareness, as quoted in our Acceptance entry
Screen One Animated Introductions to Autism, ADHD, and Neurodiversity
Short animations, most of them made by the people they are about. The rack underneath has a card for every one.
No runtime on a whole screen: it is a playlist we keep adding to, and a total would be wrong the next time it changed. Animated Introductions to Autism, ADHD, and Neurodiversity, on YouTube, from our own channel.
The rack
Every film on Screen One, in the order it plays, one card each. Press any card to watch just that film, there on the card or up on Screen One in place of the whole programme; the screen says what is showing, and puts the programme back when you ask.
The cards for Screen One
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An introduction to neurodiversity
Written and narrated by Kieran Rose, the Autistic Advocate; animated by Josh Knowles Animation
Neurodiversity as biodiversity for human brains: every flower is unique and every one is still a flower. It says there is nothing right or wrong about either kind of brain, and that the problem is a world built around the majority, which society needs to fix.
6:17 · on YouTube, via Autism Central Learn
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An introduction to the Double Empathy problem
Written and narrated by Kieran Rose; animated by Josh Knowles Animation, for the National Autism Trainer Programme
Damian Milton’s double empathy problem: when autistic and non-autistic people misunderstand each other, the breakdown runs both ways, and it is not an autistic deficit. Our Autism Pathway pairs it with the monotropism film further along this rack.
5:37 · on YouTube, via The Autistic Advocate
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Discovering You’re Autistic
Made by an international team of neurodivergent creatives, from the stories of people in Thriving Autistic’s Discovery Programme
Growing up feeling different without knowing why, and what a word for it can do: help you find ways of doing things that work with your brain and body rather than against them, and help you find the people on your wavelength.
2:30 · on YouTube, via Thriving Autistic
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Lightbulb Moments: Being Autistic
Made from the stories of people in Thriving Autistic’s Discovery Programme
The film this picture house is named after. A string of small recognitions — interests that flow like a river and worries that swirl like a whirlpool, a plan that has to be rebuilt when it changes, thinking in constellations rather than lines — from somebody who thought it was just them.
2:44 · on YouTube, via Thriving Autistic
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An Introduction to Monotropism
Written and narrated by Kieran Rose; animated by Josh Knowles Animation, for the National Autism Trainer Programme
Monotropism, the theory Dinah Murray, Wenn Lawson and Mike Lesser built, drawn as a gravity well: autistic attention takes time to build up, locks on, and flows, and being pulled out of it too fast is what gets misread as challenging behaviour.
4:01 · on YouTube, via The Autistic Advocate
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Walk In My Shoes
Made by the Donaldson Trust with Erin Davidson, from Erin’s experiences at fourteen
The walk to school, the corridors, a lesson with no filter on it, and being surrounded by people and still alone. It ends on what autism means to the person telling it, and on knowing somebody in order to support them.
Before you press: Anxiety and panic attacks throughout.
10:23 · on YouTube, via Donaldson Trust
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I found out I have ADHD.
JaidenAnimations and team
A good student who came apart after leaving home, a brother’s diagnosis that raised the question, eight months before booking an assessment, a report thirty-seven pages long, and the first time on medication.
Before you press: Stimulant medication is a large part of it, and there are two passing jokes about suicide.
17:53 · on YouTube, via JaidenAnimations
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Times I should’ve realized I was autistic
illymation and team
Childhood sensory memories — textures, automatic toilets, itchy jeans — and masking that went wrong, alongside why criteria built around young white boys miss so many girls and people of colour. It stands up for self-identification; the maker has since been diagnosed, and says so under the video.
Before you press: Brief bullying at school.
11:26 · on YouTube, via illymation
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I’m Autistic, and Here’s How People React To My Autism
Cypopps
Coming out as autistic, and the replies: “I don’t think so”, “I’m so sorry”, “you don’t look autistic” — and the best one, which is “cool” and moving on.
4:29 · on YouTube, via Cypopps
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Do You Have Autism or ADHD (OR Both)?
Written by Kelly Soong; revised by Brian Cham and Amanda Silvera; voiced by Amanda Silvera; animated by Tris
Where autism and ADHD overlap — sensory sensitivity, hyperfocus, freezing under overload — and how both can look quieter in people who mask. For all its title, it says plainly that it is not there to diagnose anybody, and that nobody needs a diagnosis to deserve understanding.
9:26 · on YouTube, via Psych2Go
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I was the weird kid.
Cypopps
A tenth-grade year of being singled out, and a refusal of the idea that the weird kid is bullied for a reason.
Before you press: Sustained bullying throughout, including unwanted physical contact and photographs taken and shared without consent. The maker puts a content warning on it too.
6:21 · on YouTube, via Cypopps
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Maria — Autistic Masking
Directed, written, designed, animated and edited by Arran Bull; Maria voiced by Gemma-Louise Keanne
A school day that gets louder until Maria cannot hold it together any more, and one teacher who does not ask for an explanation. Four minutes, almost without words.
Before you press: A meltdown in class, with screaming and sobbing.
4:02 · on YouTube, via Third Eye Animation
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the reality of being neurodivergent
owiebrainhurts
Autism and ADHD as disabilities rather than quirky personality traits: a meltdown at eighteen, ordering food in public, executive function at work, and the social model of disability.
Before you press: A meltdown at school. Has a sponsor segment.
9:12 · on YouTube, via owiebrainhurts
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not fitting in
owiebrainhurts
Not fitting in, through autism and through gender, and finding that a lot of the friends who stuck turned out to be neurodivergent too.
Before you press: Brief bullying and gendered harassment. Has a sponsor segment.
8:34 · on YouTube, via owiebrainhurts
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why nobody realised I was autistic
owiebrainhurts
Diagnosed at twenty-two after a string of other diagnoses: masking, research built on boys, sensory needs written off as picky eating, and why self-identification is necessary for so many people. It credits the illymation film earlier on this rack.
6:03 · on YouTube, via owiebrainhurts
Carded from the playlist on 2026-09-23, in its own order. The playlist is ours and we keep adding to it, so Screen One may be showing a film by now that the rack has no card for yet.
The rack takes suggestions. A film about being Autistic, ADHD or otherwise neurodivergent, best of all made by the people it is about: send it through the Stimpunks contact page or in our community. Every film is watched before it goes on a screen, so its card can say what is in it before anybody presses play, and captions come on by default here whatever you send.
Screen Two More on Autism, ADHD, and Neurodiversity
Longer ones, for after. The rack underneath says how long each one runs.
No runtime on a whole screen: it is a playlist we keep adding to, and a total would be wrong the next time it changed. More on Autism, ADHD, and Neurodiversity, on YouTube, from our own channel.
Screen Two’s rack
Every film on Screen Two, in the order it plays, one card each. Press any card to watch just that film, there on the card or up on Screen Two in place of the whole programme.
The cards for Screen Two
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What Exactly is Neurodiversity?
How to ADHD, with research by Farah Mahmud, M.S., and Dr. Patrick LaCount as research consultant
What neurodiversity means, from Judy Singer’s word to the movement Autistic self-advocates led. It sets out three ideas — brains differ, the difference is valuable, much of the disability comes from the world rather than the brain — and answers the critics: acceptance and support, therapy and medication included, are not opposites.
Before you press: Has a sponsor segment, about a minute and a half, near the end.
6:04 · on YouTube, via How to ADHD
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What is ADHD?
How to ADHD
The textbook definition of ADHD, read off the DSM: the signs, the six-symptom threshold, the three presentations, and “twice exceptional”. It adds that the name dates from 1987 though descriptions go back to 1798, and that emotional dysregulation is well researched but not yet in the manual.
3:27 · on YouTube, via How to ADHD
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Defining Features of ADHD That Everyone Overlooks
William Dodson, M.D., for ADDitude Magazine, with Susan from ADDitude asking the questions
A psychiatrist’s case that the DSM checklist misses what defines ADHD: a nervous system run by interest, challenge, novelty and urgency rather than importance, rejection sensitive dysphoria, and an inner hyperarousal. Half an hour of slides, then listeners’ questions on school, parenting, bipolar, borderline and medication.
Before you press: Opens with a sponsor read. Medication is a large part of it, and rejection sensitivity is described as bringing suicidal thoughts; road rage and domestic violence come up in the questions.
1:01:28 · on YouTube, via ADDitude Magazine
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An ADHD Guide to Emotional Dysregulation and Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
William Dodson, M.D., for ADDitude Magazine, with Susan from ADDitude asking the questions
An hour on emotional dysregulation: why the checklist leaves it out, why emotions arrive “raw”, and rejection sensitive dysphoria — sudden, physical, hard to put into words. It covers how people guard against it, the alpha agonist medications, then questions on bipolar, borderline, hormones and trauma.
Before you press: Opens with a sponsor read for an omega-3 supplement. Medication, doses and side effects are a large part of it; suicidal thoughts, rage, and parents afraid of a violent child are mentioned.
1:00:37 · on YouTube, via ADDitude Magazine
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Ask an Autistic #19 — What is Neurodiversity?
Amythest Schaber, for Ask an Autistic
Neurodiversity from the social model of disability: everybody has a different brain, and that is okay. Then the myths, one by one — that it rejects all support and treatment, rejects formal diagnosis, is only for Autistic people, only for those who speak, or says autism is not a disability.
11:29 · on YouTube, via Amythest Schaber
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ADHD: A Nightmare Under Capitalism
Elliot Sang, with Jesse Meadows of the Sluggish substack; editing by danae o.
A video essay asking what “time blindness” assumes about time. It traces clock time through capitalism and empire, sets Russell Barkley’s lecture beside colonial and phrenologist writing, and, with Jesse Meadows, reads the studies, which it says are far less settled than the term suggests.
Before you press: Has a sponsor segment. Some strong language, and it quotes racist colonial and phrenological descriptions of African and Aboriginal people.
32:54 · on YouTube, via Elliot Sang
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Good To Be Me
Spectrum Gaming community members, for the Greater Manchester #BeeWell initiative
A music video made by members of Spectrum Gaming: sung verses with their own spoken lines between them, going from hating a diagnosis to liking being Autistic, and putting the hard part on how other people treat Autistic people rather than on autism itself.
Before you press: Early on it names being picked on at school, wanting to give up, and wishing not to have been born.
3:38 · on YouTube, via Spectrum Gaming
Carded from the playlist on 2026-09-28, in its own order. The playlist is ours and we keep adding to it, so Screen Two may be showing a film by now that the rack has no card for yet.
Screen Three Campfire Learn Together
Everything we have watched together at our Sunday campfires, newest first. Some of these run for hours; the campfire rack underneath says how long each one is and what is in it.
No runtime on a whole screen: it is a playlist we keep adding to, and a total would be wrong the next time it changed. Campfire Learn Together, on YouTube, from our own channel.
The campfire rack
Campfire Learn Together is our Sunday watch-along: we screen something together, take a bodymind break, and talk about it as a community, with nobody at the front. The name is the campfire of David Thornburg’s caves, campfires and watering holes, the place where people gather round a story. Screen Three is everything we have watched there, and this rack has a card for every film on it, each one linking to the post we wrote for that campfire. Press any card to watch just that film, there on the card or up on Screen Three in place of the whole programme.
The cards for Screen Three
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At the campfire of 13 September 2026
We've Killed Kid's Hobbies
Reptarus On Ice
Why kids quit the things they love: once an adult can see a return in a hobby, it turns into work. Pokémon card grading, private-equity travel teams and family vlogging, told by a parent whose own kids are caught up in all three.
Before you press: Has an ad read for the maker’s own shop partway through. Mentions the Ruby Franke child abuse case, and says in passing that people have died over Pokémon cards.
30:27 · on YouTube, via Reptarus On Ice
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At the campfire of 6 September 2026
The Subtle Art of Normalising Dystopia
Written and directed by Campbell Walker, for struthless
How ownership was taken away in steps too dull to notice: Amazon deleting 1984 from Kindles, a coffee machine that refuses unlicensed coffee, printer ink that stops working after an update. It takes a Cory Doctorow keynote from ten years ago as homework now due, and ends on the GPL and right to repair as things that held.
Before you press: Has a sponsor segment (ProtonVPN). Mentions Aaron Swartz’s death by suicide.
51:10 · on YouTube, via struthless
Campfire Learn Together: The Subtle Art of Normalising Dystopia →
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At the campfire of 30 August 2026
UNLEARN LIGHTBULB: I guess I'm doing fine, I guess I'm doing fine.
Professor Jason Arday, for Anglia Ruskin University’s Unlearning Lightbulb series
A keynote with no slides, built on a set list of songs taped to the floor: belonging, being seen, and a politics of care in an unkind academy. In the questions, Jason Arday turns to masking at work, to allyship that stays quiet, and to people who trivialise neurodivergence, calling a late diagnosis “life affirming”.
Before you press: The first ten minutes are music and introductions. About 33 minutes in, a short account of a stranger who, the talk implies, took their own life minutes after Jason Arday saw them; later, a colleague who cried in the toilets at work every day. Racism throughout. Jason Arday has since died.
1:35:35 · on YouTube, via Anglia Ruskin University
Campfire Learn Together: Unlearning Toward Hope with Jason Arday →
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At the campfire of 30 August 2026
Jason Arday - Things Can Only Get Better
Jason Arday, at the Society for Experimental Biology’s symposium on decolonising and diversifying biosciences education
What happens to a word once institutions franchise it: inclusion, then diversity, then decolonising. Jason Arday argues that nobody can decolonise without first understanding what was colonised, that swapping reading lists is a tick box, and that the cost falls on staff of colour doing the work unrecognised. Culture first, strategy second.
Before you press: Brief mentions of George Floyd’s murder, other killings caught on camera, and a fatal crush at a London venue. Racism throughout. Jason Arday has since died.
Not in the programme: YouTube would not let it be added to the campfire playlist, so Screen Three’s programme goes straight from the keynote to the tai chi class. It plays here, or up on the screen from this card.
46:55 · on YouTube, via Society for Experimental Biology
Campfire Learn Together: Unlearning Toward Hope with Jason Arday →
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At the campfire of 23 August 2026
Seated Tai Chi for Beginners and Seniors | Gentle Movements for Balance Mobility Energy
Annette, for Itstimefitness
A seated tai chi and qigong class done entirely in a chair: warm-ups for the neck, shoulders, legs and ankles, slow punches with the breath, then forms called Repulse Monkey, Parting the Horse’s Mane and Cloud Arms, each done three times so they become familiar.
22:45 · on YouTube, via Itstimefitness
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At the campfire of 23 August 2026
Neuroqueering Somatics: A conversation at the intersection of neurodivergence and somatic practice
Katy Higgins Lee in conversation with Dr. Nick Walker, for ISMETA
Nick Walker defines neurodiversity, neurodivergence in its original broad sense, and neuroqueering, then turns to aikido, walking, polyvagal theory and psychedelics. On masking: unmasking is not safe for everybody, so the aim is flexibility, a mask put on on purpose and taken off when alone rather than one held tight in the body.
Before you press: The first five minutes are introductions. Psychedelic use is discussed as a tool, trauma and PTSD come up in the questions, and there is a passing mention of a scholar’s transphobia.
1:27:39 · on YouTube, via ISMETA
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At the campfire of 23 August 2026
Screaming Females cover Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off"
Screaming Females, for The A.V. Club’s Undercover series
The New Jersey trio Screaming Females cover Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” for The A.V. Club’s Undercover series, with what the description calls a different sort of energy from the original. It was the band’s second time on the series, after a Sheryl Crow song.
4:15 · on YouTube, via The A.V. Club
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At the campfire of 23 August 2026
Melina Najjar- Flamenco dance Farruca with Yazan Ibrahim
Melina Najjar, dancer, with Yazan Ibrahim on guitar; directed by Firas Rouby, edited by Eskandar Hilwi
Melina Najjar dances a farruca, one of the forms of flamenco, to Yazan Ibrahim’s guitar, filmed at Studio Naim in Haifa.
Before you press: No speech; guitar and dance only.
6:41 · on YouTube, via Melina Najar
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At the campfire of 23 August 2026
"Thrive" by Scarlet Monk
Scarlet Monk, on the Mugs and Pockets channel; video created and edited by Sunny Raskin, with dancers of the Raskin Dance Studio Company: Marcelina Palmer, Olivia Gutierrez, Jada Geneus, Maya Mejias and Jasmine Banegas
A music video for Scarlet Monk’s song “Thrive”, danced by five dancers of the Raskin Dance Studio Company, in a video created and edited by Sunny Raskin. The song plays through a second time under the closing credits.
Before you press: Opens with a short spoken line about killing someone.
5:46 · on YouTube, via Mugs and Pockets
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At the campfire of 16 August 2026
Documentary Together: The Bildung Climate School
The Bildung Climate School, founded by Ginie Servant-Miklos and Rutger Engels
Rotterdam’s Bildung Climate School puts vocational, applied-sciences and university students in one room for eleven weeks: boxing and breathing to handle climate grief, then remaking other people’s cast-off clothes for a sustainable fashion show. It shows the friction too, when the vocational students say the university ones make them feel stupid.
Before you press: Climate anxiety and “eco depression” are talked about openly, and fast fashion’s child labour is mentioned. A little strong language, and stretches of music with little talk.
31:23 · on YouTube, via The Bildung Climate School
Campfire Learn Together: Head, Heart, and Hands at the End of the World →
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At the campfire of 16 August 2026
Pedagogies of Collapse: A Hopeful Education for the End of the World As We Know It w/ Dr. GInie S...
Dr. Ginie Servant-Miklos, in a Q&A hosted by the Human Restoration Project
The author of Pedagogies of Collapse answers a book club’s questions, and the forecast is bleak: burning forests, AI data centres taking the power and water, a left that abandoned the working class. Then the school’s answer: regulate yourself, find your group, and only then face the overwhelming questions.
Before you press: Heavy throughout: climate and geopolitical collapse, mass death from heat, fascism, drug use including the speaker’s own, and strong language. One remark blames the far right’s rise on “neurodivergent guys in a basement”, a story mocks a pronoun go-round, and there is a figurative line about teachers killing themselves.
56:44 · on YouTube, via Human Restoration Project
Campfire Learn Together: Head, Heart, and Hands at the End of the World →
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At the campfire of 9 August 2026
Code for the People | A Film by Bao Nguyen | Full Documentary
A film by Bao Nguyen
A documentary short on open source and the open web: enshittification, “free as in freedom, not free as in beer”, and owning your own website instead of being a tenant on a platform. It tells how WordPress and Automattic grew, and argues that closed AI, trained on work from people who never opted in, raises the stakes.
Before you press: One swear word in the first minute. Near the end, a speaker remembers a father who has died.
19:31 · on YouTube, via Code for the People
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At the campfire of 26 July 2026
Existential Movement | Bringing Wisdom to a Turbulent World | Philosophy & Life | Emmy's Existential
The Existential Movement, whose speakers are not named in the film; posted by Emmy’s Existential Zone
A short manifesto film: people are more comfortable than ever and still living with record anxiety and depression, because of the human environment we have built. Therapists and philosophers argue for restorative relationships, for treating anxiety and sadness as attunement rather than faults, for facing mortality, and for gathering up the world’s wisdom for ordinary people.
Before you press: Mentions suicide, depression and death in general terms. Ends with an appeal to join and fund the Existential Movement.
20:59 · on YouTube, via Emmy's Existential Zone
Campfire Learn Together: The Existential Movement — Bringing Wisdom to a Turbulent World →
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At the campfire of 19 July 2026
Why Don't Fascists Eat Vegetables?
The Leftist Cooks, with interviews with Olivia Wee, Lily Hi’ilani, Rohan Davis, Zoe Bee and ChrisWaves
A video essay on the carnivore diet and what it calls the “meat-to-fascism pipeline”: Jordan Peterson, the Liver King, Joe Rogan and Gwyneth Paltrow, supplement grifts, milk as a white-supremacist symbol, the meat industry paying for doubt, vegetarianism in Hitler’s and Modi’s politics, and an ecofeminist answer that ends in food sovereignty and mutual aid.
Before you press: Strong language throughout. Covers eating disorders, benzodiazepine addiction and an induced coma, animal slaughter and dairy farming described in detail (no images shown), racist and antisemitic propaganda quoted, genocide, lynchings, a mass shooting and infant death. Has an appeal for Patreon support just before the three-hour mark.
5:52:23 · on YouTube, via The Leftist Cooks
Campfire Munch Together: Why Don’t Fascists Eat Vegetables? →
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At the campfire of 5 July 2026
[FULL CONCERT] Oscar Peterson & Count Basie & Joe Pass 1980 - Words & Music
Oscar Peterson and Count Basie (piano), Joe Pass (guitar), Niels Pedersen (bass) and Martin Drew (drums), in the BBC’s Words & Music, 1980
A 1980 BBC special in two parts, the first with guitarist Joe Pass and the second with Count Basie, where Oscar Peterson and Basie sit at two pianos and talk between numbers about the players who came before them, Art Tatum most of all.
Before you press: Mostly music, with conversation between the numbers. It has no captions.
46:47 · on YouTube, via Palanzana
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At the campfire of 28 June 2026
New “neurodivergent attachment theory” framework 2025 paper
Dr. Michelle Karth, PhD
A short summary of a 2025 paper proposing Neurodivergent Attachment Theory: that avoiding eye contact or touch can be attachment done differently rather than insecurity. It walks through five proposed styles, from “sensory secure” to “cognitive connector”, argues that constant masking stops secure attachment forming, and says plainly the framework is untested.
2:50 · on YouTube, via Dr. Michelle Karth, PhD
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At the campfire of 28 June 2026
An introduction to the Double Empathy problem
Written and narrated by Kieran Rose; animated by Josh Knowles Animation, for the National Autism Trainer Programme
Damian Milton’s double empathy problem: when autistic and non-autistic people misunderstand each other, the breakdown runs both ways, and it is not an autistic deficit. Our Autism Pathway pairs it with the monotropism film further along this rack.
5:36 · on YouTube, via The Autistic Advocate
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At the campfire of 7 June 2026
Teaching in the Wreckage of the Real: A Narration
Written by Chris McNutt, read by Nick, for the Human Restoration Project
A read-aloud essay on manufactured confusion, from the Kremlin’s “firehose of falsehood” to Baudrillard’s simulations, AI model collapse and scripted curricula that do the teaching for the teacher. It argues that schools train students to receive knowledge rather than build it, and ends on the rhizome: classrooms where students make meaning.
Before you press: The first minute is an announcement for the Human Restoration Project’s summer book club.
27:27 · on YouTube, via Human Restoration Project
Campfire Learn Together: Teaching in the Wreckage of the Real →
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At the campfire of 31 May 2026
Lines of Flight in the Classroom
Ian Buchanan, a talk for the English Schools Foundation in Hong Kong
Deleuze and Guattari’s three kinds of line, which start from Fernand Deligny following Autistic children’s wandering paths, worked through Henry James and the film Muriel’s Wedding, then turned on the classroom: the curriculum, the play that makes it bearable, and the point where either one tips into boredom or chaos.
Before you press: Tells the whole plot of Muriel’s Wedding, ending included, and that includes a suicide. Uses alcoholism as an extended example, and makes passing jokes about killing. It starts partway through the introduction.
39:36 · on YouTube, via Ian Buchanan
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At the campfire of 17 May 2026
Therapy Is Not Neutral with Dr. Jennifer Mullan, facilitated by Iya Affo
Dr. Jennifer Mullan, in conversation with Iya Affo, for Science and Nonduality
Dr. Jennifer Mullan on why therapy has never been neutral: diagnoses that pathologise big reactions to grief and rage, the DSM’s history (drapetomania, homosexuality), Eurocentric boundaries, and a “trauma burger” of present stress, childhood and ancestral pain. It argues for circles, land, ritual and collaboration instead of treatment.
Before you press: Slavery, police violence, prisons, and Gaza and Sudan (named as genocide) come up, plus a hospital stay. The last seventeen minutes are audience questions.
1:12:14 · on YouTube, via Science and Nonduality
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At the campfire of 10 May 2026
Helen De Cruz on What Makes Life Worth Living | Closer To Truth Chats
Helen De Cruz, in conversation with Robert Lawrence Kuhn, for Closer To Truth
Philosopher Helen De Cruz talks with Robert Lawrence Kuhn about the book Wonderstruck: wonder as a push to investigate what puzzles us, awe as standing before something vast, and both as ordinary as frost on a window. It moves through magic, religion and science, and ends asking what all the drive for efficiency is for.
57:31 · on YouTube, via Closer To Truth
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At the campfire of 10 May 2026
Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way… by Helen De Cruz · Audiobook preview
Helen De Cruz, read by Lisa S. Ware; an audiobook preview from Tantor Media, published by Google Play Books
The opening of Helen De Cruz’s Wonderstruck read aloud: the first chapter, “Freedom to Wonder”, and the first few minutes of the second, on how wonder fuels philosophy, named for Descartes’s “that sudden surprise of the soul”.
Before you press: An audiobook reading, put out to sell the book, and it stops a few minutes into the second chapter. It has no captions.
39:23 · on YouTube, via Google Play Books
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At the campfire of 3 May 2026
Being Disabled Can Be Pretty Funny | Josh Blue Full Special
Josh Blue, for Dry Bar Comedy
Josh Blue on cerebral palsy and years on the US Paralympic soccer team: losing to Russia 11–1, a cafeteria of 3,000 disabled athletes where everybody still stares at Josh, feeling obliged to use the ramp on a date, and a waiter who asks a friend what Josh will have.
Before you press: A clean set with almost no swearing, but one slur for little people, and jokes about Make-A-Wish and faking Tourette’s.
24:38 · on YouTube, via Dry Bar Comedy
Campfire Learn Together: Being Disabled Can Be Pretty Funny →
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At the campfire of 3 May 2026
“I’m Like the Bisexuality of Ability” - Tina Friml - Stand-Up Featuring
Tina Friml, for Comedy Central Stand-Up Featuring
Tina Friml as “the bisexuality of ability”, not quite committed either way: dating-app bios full of open-minded men, going to bars on bad days to blend in with the drunk people, and a woman at a Vermont Democratic Party fundraiser who was furious for half the set, sure it was faked.
Before you press: Jokes about drinking and dating, and one about cocaine.
11:08 · on YouTube, via Comedy Central Stand-Up
Campfire Learn Together: Being Disabled Can Be Pretty Funny →
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At the campfire of 3 May 2026
The Perks of Being Disabled | Tina Friml | Stand Up Comedy
Written and performed by Tina Friml, for Don’t Tell Comedy; directed by Gordie Earle III
Tina Friml’s three reasons to love being a disabled comic: none of it can be hack, it is the most interesting thing about “a liberal white girl from Vermont”, and cheating death as a baby means life since is “free play”. Also: disability as the one minority everybody joins.
Before you press: Sexual jokes, including about kink, bondage and choking, and a joke about nearly dying as a baby.
10:42 · on YouTube, via Don't Tell Comedy
Campfire Learn Together: Being Disabled Can Be Pretty Funny →
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At the campfire of 3 May 2026
Josh Blue | Freak Accident (Full Comedy Special)
Josh Blue, for 800 Pound Gorilla Media
Josh Blue on coming third on America’s Got Talent and losing to a magician, which becomes a running callback: a colourblind racist neighbour, strangers who spill the soup they insisted on carrying, 50% custody, a palsy arm busy after dark, a day-program bus driver who never believes Josh works there, and Botox.
Before you press: Strong language and sex jokes throughout (one involves a dog), plus a serial-killer bit, jokes about Josh Blue’s own death, and a closing throwaway line about beating up a woman.
1:11:00 · on YouTube, via 800 Pound Gorilla Media
Campfire Learn Together: Being Disabled Can Be Pretty Funny →
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At the campfire of 26 April 2026
How to (Anti) AI Better
Dr. Fatima, with interviews with Jordan Harrod and Devon Price
Dr. Fatima argues that shaming people for using chatbots makes the harms worse, and makes the case for harm reduction instead: AI literacy, choosing less harmful tools, organising locally against data centres, and being somebody people can talk to. It ends with a personal story of using ChatGPT to fight an eviction, then depending on it.
Before you press: Suicide and other deaths linked to chatbots, pollution making a Black neighbourhood ill, drug addiction, a passing mention of sexual images of children made by a chatbot, and a personal story of panic attacks and months of chatbot dependence. Strong language, mostly bleeped. Has a Patreon ad, and the last ten minutes answer comments on an earlier video.
1:30:11 · on YouTube, via Dr. Fatima
Campfire Learn Together: “How to (Anti) AI Better” by Dr. Fatima →
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At the campfire of 19 April 2026
Keynote: Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang | Solving the Frankenstein Problem
Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, a keynote at Human Restoration Project’s Conference to Restore Humanity 2024
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang argues against teaching children as a Frankenstein’s monster of separate skills. Brain scans show deep emotional thinking running on the systems that keep us alive, and teenagers who reflect on what a story means beyond itself show more brain growth later. Two classrooms follow: a points game, and algebra used to plan a real family’s finances.
Before you press: Describes children harmed by neglect in Romanian institutions and, briefly, brain surgery on people with epilepsy. Teenagers respond to the story of a girl in Pakistan under the Taliban.
1:00:53 · on YouTube, via Human Restoration Project
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At the campfire of 12 April 2026
In Defense of Inefficiency
Zoe Bee
Zoe Bee traces our obsession with efficiency back to Frederick Taylor’s scientific management, then takes apart both halves of it: what counts as waste (a teacher calling out doodling that was helping Zoe listen) and what counts as effective (the cobra bounty, Goodhart’s law, schools measuring obedience). It argues for room to stare out of windows.
Before you press: Has a sponsor segment in the first two minutes. Some strong language, partly bleeped, and a short aside about nearly fainting while filming after not eating.
1:09:14 · on YouTube, via Zoe Bee
Watched at a campfire, and not on this screen:
- Campfire Learn Together: The Mycelial Worldview Is Punk · 12 July 2026 · Both films we watched are hosted off YouTube, on Vimeo and on MOTH’s own site, so neither can be on a YouTube playlist.
- Campfire Learn Together: Free for All — A People’s History of the Public Library · 14 June 2026 · The documentary we watched has since been made private on YouTube, so it cannot be on a playlist.
- Campfire Learn Together: The Double Empathy Problem · 24 May 2026 · Damian Milton’s keynote is on Vimeo, so it cannot be on a YouTube playlist.
Carded on 2026-09-28 from our own campfire posts, newest first, which is the playlist’s own order. New campfires go on at the top of the playlist, so Screen Three may be showing one by now that the rack has no card for yet.
Whose these are
Every film belongs to the people who made it, named on its card wherever the film’s own description names them, and to the channel that published it. None of them is affiliated with Stimpunks and none of them endorses us. Nothing here is hosted by us: every film is on YouTube, and nothing reaches YouTube until you press play. Every playlist here is ours, on our own channel. The words on the rack are ours, written from the films themselves rather than from their titles.
The name is borrowed from a film, Lightbulb Moments: Being Autistic, by Thriving Autistic, which is on Screen One and on the rack.
The name over the door is Limelight, by Nicole Fally and Sorkin Type, an Art Deco face of the kind cut into a picture house’s fascia; everything you read is Outfit, by Smartsheet Inc and Rodrigo Fuenzalida. Both under the SIL Open Font License. More in the liner notes.
HOW LOUD DO YOU WANT IT?
Starts wherever your device says. Nothing moves, flashes, or plays until you say so — and in here, MAX GLITTER is the popcorn in the second row, popping. The bulbs never flicker.
Job marker — a pair of ear defenders left on a seat
You have found a job marker. The Adventurer’s Guild is a shopfront on the street, and it posts jobs that send you round these rooms. Take the code below to its board and that job is done. Nothing here is scored, nothing expires, and one is a perfectly good number of jobs to do.
The job: Where the attention goes
Before the code: The monotropism film on the rack says focused autistic attention is like something in space, with a pull you cannot easily get out of. What?
Hint 1
It is on the card for the monotropism film, and in the film itself.
Hint 2
The card calls it a gravity well.
Last hint
Two words; nothing escapes one.
Give me the answer
The answer is A black hole. In the monotropism film, the focus of autistic attention has more mass than anything else around it, and its gravity drags you in. Coming back out of a gravity well takes time, and being pulled out too fast is what gets mistaken for challenging behaviour.
Taking the answer is a real way through this, not a lesser one. Nothing is watching and nothing is written down.
Quest code: HOUSELIGHTS
That is the one.
In the monotropism film, the focus of autistic attention has more mass than anything else around it, and its gravity drags you in. Coming back out of a gravity well takes time, and being pulled out too fast is what gets mistaken for challenging behaviour.
Quest code: HOUSELIGHTS