Relational Field Theory
Relational Field Theory — The Mic as a Ceremonial Talking Stick
There’s a moment in every movement where the narrative doesn’t just shift — the infrastructure shifts. The tools change. The acoustics change. The way attention moves changes.
That’s what this work is doing.
For decades, autistic and neurodivergent people have been handed broken microphones — devices wired through someone else’s expectations, someone else’s interpretations, someone else’s comfort. Mics that distorted our voices, softened our clarity, or punished our honesty.
But that’s not the mic we’re leaving behind.
This is a different kind of mic entirely.
🎙️ The Mic as a Ceremonial Talking Stick
This mic isn’t about performance.
It isn’t about spectacle.
It isn’t about proving anything.
It’s a ceremonial talking stick — a relational artifact that signals:
- Attention belongs here.
- Truth belongs here.
- Coherence belongs here.
- The field will not collapse while you speak.
It’s held with intention.
Passed with consent.
Received with respect.
It doesn’t demand masking.
It doesn’t require translation.
It doesn’t punish honesty.
It simply says:
“When you hold this, the room orients toward you.”
🌱 A Healthy Mic, Not a Broken One
This isn’t a mic drop that ends the conversation.
It’s a mic drop that changes the terms of engagement.
It leaves behind a mic that is:
- undistorted
- unbroken
- uncoerced
- tuned to coherence
- calibrated for truth
A mic that autistic and neurodivergent people can walk up to and speak into without having to contort themselves first.
A mic that doesn’t ask for performance — only presence.
A mic that says:
“Exactly as you are is exactly what belongs here.”
🔥 The Invitation
This is the moment where the field shifts from explanation to testimony.
Where autistic and ND people don’t just get to be understood —
they get to speak.
Not through someone else’s filter.
Not through someone else’s comfort.
Not through someone else’s narrative.
Through their own coherence.
This mic is yours now.
Take it.
Hold it.
Speak into it.
The field is listening.
Survivor Literacy 
What do you think?