This talk is in Central Standard Time (Winnipeg, MB). You can find out more by clicking here. The talk introduces the Neurodiversity paradigm and its applications to practice using findings and creative outputs from the Re•Storying Autism project, an international multimedia storytelling project in Canada (northern Turtle Island), England and Aotearoa (New Zealand) led by Dr. Patty Douglas. Re•Storying brings together Autistic folks, family and kin, educators, and practitioners in story making workshops to co-create knowledge and collaboratively advance affirming paradigms and approaches in education and health. The talk will focus on lived experience, interview findings and creative outputs (digital stories, zines) from recent research workshops in Aotearoa, England, and Manitoba. We consider how Neurodiversity paradigms and decolonizing approaches that focus on relationality, affirming difference, context, and unsettling Western ontologies and epistemologies open space for transformative practice that supports the thriving of individuals, family and kin, and practitioners, and affirms difference. Bonus: you will have an opportunity to respond to this talk both creatively and practically.