sheets.json

{
  "$comment": [
    "THE MANIFEST. This file is the source of truth for what a Why Sheet IS — its slug,",
    "where it is published, what it is for, and when someone reaches for it.",
    "",
    "WHY IT IS A SEPARATE FILE AND NOT FRONTMATTER IN THE SHEETS.",
    "This repository is a Ulysses external folder (.Ulysses-Group.plist sits beside these",
    "sheets). Ulysses renders and rewrites the Markdown files it opens: YAML frontmatter",
    "would show up as body text in the editor, and Ulysses adds backslash escapes and",
    "non-breaking spaces on save. Metadata that lives inside a sheet is metadata that an",
    "editor can damage without anyone noticing. So the sheets stay plain prose, and",
    "everything a generator needs to know about them lives here.",
    "",
    "SLUGS CANNOT BE COMPUTED FROM FILENAMES. 'Neuromodulation & Autism.md' publishes at",
    "/why/neuromodulation/. A generator that derives slugs from filenames gets that one",
    "wrong and links a printed packet at a 404. Declare, do not guess.",
    "",
    "`letter` names the VENUE a companion advocacy prompt would be written for, or null",
    "when the sheet has no decision-maker at the other end. Cavendish Space and Boring",
    "Technology argue a position; there is nobody to write to about them, and a letter",
    "prompt on those would be furniture. The venue is a fact about the SHEET. Which",
    "venues can actually be built is a fact about tools/build-prompts.mjs, which today",
    "has a school template only. A sheet declaring a venue with no template is reported",
    "on every build and skipped — a visible backlog, not a silent gap.",
    "",
    "`published` is the canonical stimpunks.org URL, or null for a sheet that exists here",
    "and has not been published there. Both states are legitimate; only an undeclared one",
    "is drift. tools/check-drift.mjs compares this file against the repository and against",
    "the stimpunks.org mirror and reports every disagreement."
  ],
  "press": {
    "name": "The Why Sheet Press",
    "host": "whysheet.press",
    "tagline": "Print the argument. Carry it into the room."
  },
  "sheets": [
    {
      "slug": "demand-avoidance",
      "letter": "school",
      "file": "Demand Avoidance.md",
      "title": "Demand Avoidance",
      "broadside": "demand-avoidance",
      "published": "https://stimpunks.org/why/demand-avoidance/",
      "summary": "The refusal is a threat response, not defiance. Compliance pressure is the one reply guaranteed to escalate it — and the adjustments that do work are good teaching for every child.",
      "moment": "When a school has decided a child is being defiant, and the child is drowning.",
      "topics": [
        "school",
        "iep",
        "understanding"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "aac",
      "letter": "school",
      "file": "AAC Is Not a Last Resort.md",
      "title": "AAC Is Not a Last Resort",
      "published": "https://stimpunks.org/why/aac/",
      "broadside": "aac",
      "summary": "A robust communication system is a right, not a reward for proving you deserve one — and AAC does not delay speech, it supports it.",
      "moment": "When a school or clinic says a child needs to develop speech before they can have a communication system.",
      "topics": [
        "school",
        "communication",
        "rights"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "behaviorism",
      "letter": "school",
      "file": "Behaviorism.md",
      "title": "Behaviorism",
      "published": "https://stimpunks.org/why/behaviorism/",
      "broadside": "behaviorism",
      "summary": "Behaviorism measures the surface, badly — and the primary legacy of ABA is trauma.",
      "moment": "When compliance is being described as progress, and you need the evidence in one place.",
      "topics": [
        "school",
        "aba",
        "ethics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "alternatives-to-aba",
      "letter": "school",
      "file": "Alternatives to ABA.md",
      "title": "Alternatives to ABA",
      "published": "https://stimpunks.org/why/alternatives-to-aba/",
      "broadside": null,
      "summary": "Fourteen neurodiversity-affirming frameworks, gathered, so “what would you do instead” has an answer.",
      "moment": "When you have said no to ABA and the room asks what you want instead.",
      "topics": [
        "school",
        "aba",
        "clinical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "aba-tactics",
      "letter": "school",
      "file": "ABA Tactics.md",
      "title": "ABA Tactics",
      "published": "https://stimpunks.org/why/aba-tactics/",
      "broadside": null,
      "summary": "The tactics one by one — compliance training, extinction, quiet hands, forced eye contact — and what each one actually does.",
      "moment": "When a programme is being described in technical language and you need to know what the words mean in a child’s day.",
      "topics": [
        "school",
        "aba",
        "clinical"
      ],
      "content_note": "Discusses trauma, abuse, coercion, and suicide."
    },
    {
      "slug": "eye-contact",
      "letter": "school",
      "file": "Eye Contact.md",
      "title": "Eye Contact",
      "published": "https://stimpunks.org/why/eye-contact/",
      "broadside": "eye-contact",
      "summary": "Forced eye contact is painful, it interferes with processing, and it is not evidence of attention.",
      "moment": "In the meeting where eye contact is about to be written into a goal.",
      "topics": [
        "school",
        "iep",
        "sensory"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "masking-and-burnout",
      "letter": "school",
      "file": "Masking and Burnout.md",
      "title": "Masking and Burnout",
      "published": "https://stimpunks.org/why/masking-and-burnout/",
      "broadside": "masking-and-burnout",
      "summary": "Masking is a stress response, not a skill. Burnout is the bill. Observation does not see either one.",
      "moment": "When “but they’re fine at school” is being used to close a file.",
      "topics": [
        "school",
        "iep",
        "health"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "monotropism",
      "letter": "school",
      "file": "Monotropism.md",
      "title": "Monotropism",
      "published": "https://stimpunks.org/why/monotropism/",
      "broadside": "monotropism",
      "summary": "Autistic experience explained through attention — and what stops looking like defiance once you can see the tunnel.",
      "moment": "When transitions, “rigidity” or “obsession” are on the agenda.",
      "topics": [
        "school",
        "understanding"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "developmental-pace",
      "letter": "school",
      "file": "Developmental Pace.md",
      "title": "Developmental Pace",
      "published": "https://stimpunks.org/why/developmental-pace/",
      "broadside": "developmental-pace",
      "summary": "Pace is ordinary variation, and it is uneven within one person. School treats it as fixed, sorts by birth date, and records the gap against the child.",
      "moment": "When “working below age-related expectations” is being used as the reason to withhold something.",
      "topics": [
        "school",
        "iep",
        "understanding"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "recess-and-play",
      "letter": "school",
      "file": "Recess and Play.md",
      "title": "Recess and Play",
      "published": "https://stimpunks.org/why/recess-and-play/",
      "broadside": "recess-and-play",
      "summary": "Recess is regulation, not a privilege. Withholding it takes movement from the child who just showed you they need it — and who loses it is not random.",
      "moment": "When recess is about to be withheld for behaviour or for unfinished work.",
      "topics": [
        "school",
        "iep",
        "policy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "positive-greetings-at-the-door",
      "letter": "school",
      "file": "Positive Greetings at the Door.md",
      "title": "Positive Greetings at the Door",
      "published": "https://stimpunks.org/why/positive-greetings-at-the-door/",
      "broadside": "positive-greetings-at-the-door",
      "summary": "A greeting policy that turns a teacher into a threshold to be performed past.",
      "moment": "When a school is adopting PGD and nobody has asked what it costs to walk through that door.",
      "topics": [
        "school",
        "policy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "hoodie",
      "letter": "school",
      "file": "Hoodie.md",
      "title": "Hoodie",
      "published": "https://stimpunks.org/why/hoodie/",
      "broadside": null,
      "summary": "One page, already written, asking that a student wear a hoodie instead of the blazer.",
      "moment": "When you need to hand the school a reason in writing, today.",
      "topics": [
        "school",
        "sensory",
        "uniform"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "sensory-access-at-work",
      "letter": "work",
      "file": "Sensory Access at Work.md",
      "title": "Sensory Access at Work",
      "published": "https://stimpunks.org/why/sensory-access-at-work/",
      "broadside": "sensory-access-at-work",
      "summary": "All eight senses, the common access needs at work, and the small changes that make a workplace livable.",
      "moment": "In the accommodations conversation, when “what do you need?” needs a list rather than an apology.",
      "topics": [
        "work",
        "sensory",
        "access"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "cavendish-space",
      "letter": null,
      "file": "Cavendish Space.md",
      "title": "Cavendish Space",
      "published": "https://stimpunks.org/why/cavendish-space/",
      "broadside": "cavendish-space",
      "summary": "Caves, campfires and watering holes — vocabulary for a space that supports bodyminds instead of demanding they adapt.",
      "moment": "When a room is being designed and you want words for what it should do.",
      "topics": [
        "space",
        "design",
        "school"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "neuroqueer-learning-spaces",
      "letter": null,
      "file": "Neuroqueer Learning Spaces.md",
      "title": "Neuroqueer Learning Spaces",
      "published": "https://stimpunks.org/why/neuroqueer-learning-spaces/",
      "broadside": null,
      "summary": "The classroom as a bastion of neuronormativity, and what it takes to hold space against that.",
      "moment": "When you are making the case for learning differently as a right, not a concession.",
      "topics": [
        "school",
        "design",
        "liberation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "queer-and-neurodivergent-liberation-are-entwined",
      "letter": null,
      "file": "Queer and Neurodivergent Liberation are Entwined.md",
      "title": "Queer and Neurodivergent Liberation are Entwined",
      "published": "https://stimpunks.org/why/queer-and-neurodivergent-liberation-are-entwined/",
      "broadside": null,
      "summary": "Why the two movements share a history, a set of enemies, and a conversion-therapy lineage.",
      "moment": "When someone asks why a neurodiversity organisation is talking about queerness.",
      "topics": [
        "liberation",
        "history"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "neuromodulation",
      "letter": "clinical",
      "file": "Neuromodulation & Autism.md",
      "title": "Neuromodulation & Autism",
      "published": "https://stimpunks.org/why/neuromodulation/",
      "broadside": null,
      "summary": "TMS, tDCS and what is being sold alongside them. The evidence base is weak and the framing is the pathology paradigm.",
      "moment": "When a clinic or an advertisement offers a treatment and you have an appointment on Thursday.",
      "topics": [
        "clinical",
        "health",
        "ethics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "boring-technology",
      "letter": null,
      "file": "Boring Technology.md",
      "title": "Boring Technology",
      "published": "https://stimpunks.org/why/boring-technology/",
      "broadside": "boring-technology",
      "summary": "Tools old, plain and open enough to outlive the companies that sell them.",
      "moment": "When a service that holds someone’s access is about to be replaced by a platform.",
      "topics": [
        "technology",
        "access"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "broadsides": [
    {
      "slug": "behaviorism",
      "title": "Behaviorism",
      "parent": "behaviorism"
    },
    {
      "slug": "boring-technology",
      "title": "Boring Technology",
      "parent": "boring-technology"
    },
    {
      "slug": "cavendish-space",
      "title": "Cavendish Space",
      "parent": "cavendish-space"
    },
    {
      "slug": "developmental-pace",
      "title": "Developmental Pace",
      "parent": "developmental-pace"
    },
    {
      "slug": "eye-contact",
      "title": "Eye Contact",
      "parent": "eye-contact"
    },
    {
      "slug": "masking-and-burnout",
      "title": "Masking and Burnout",
      "parent": "masking-and-burnout"
    },
    {
      "slug": "monotropism",
      "title": "Monotropism",
      "parent": "monotropism"
    },
    {
      "slug": "positive-greetings-at-the-door",
      "title": "Positive Greetings at the Door",
      "parent": "positive-greetings-at-the-door"
    },
    {
      "slug": "sensory-access-at-work",
      "title": "Sensory Access at Work",
      "parent": "sensory-access-at-work"
    },
    {
      "slug": "recess-and-play",
      "title": "Recess and Play",
      "parent": "recess-and-play"
    },
    {
      "slug": "aac",
      "parent": "aac",
      "title": "AAC Is Not a Last Resort"
    },
    {
      "slug": "demand-avoidance",
      "parent": "demand-avoidance",
      "title": "Demand Avoidance"
    }
  ]
}