This stream of the Lancaster Disability Studies Conference – led by the Participatory Autism Research Collective (PARC) – aims to facilitate the sharing of views across critical perspectives within the neurodiversity field. It aims to widen the field to include a diverse range of neurodivergent ways of being, bridging fields and connecting concepts and experiences, and also to make a positive change regarding the input of neurodivergent scholarship and to promote a participatory ethos.