As a newly-found neurodivergent creative, I owe a great deal of gratitude to independent Western Australian artist Patrick Gunasekera in my discovery of the idea of “crip time”.
A term coined by US academic Alison Kafer, crip time refers to the time concessions disabled people must make for themselves to cope in ableist and capitalist society. In Ellen Samuels’ Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time, Kafer says: ‘Rather than bend disabled bodies and minds to meet the clock, crip time bends the clock to meet disabled bodies and minds.’
