@article{Cain_2020, title={‘How do I know how I think, until I see what I say?’: : The shape of embodied thinking, neurodiversity, first-person methodology}, volume={17}, url={https://journal.idea-edu.com/index.php/home/article/view/400}, DOI={10.37113/ij.v17i02.400}, abstractNote={<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I discuss what it’s like to engage in an embodied/enactive creative practice, its qualities and values, and how neurodiversity might benefit research culture. As an Asperger’s thinker with a creative, metacognitive thinking style, I have reached a point of asking through my art practice, <em>How do I make my cognitive difference visible?</em> Referring to my keynote presentation at the 2019 <em>Body of Knowledge Conference</em>, which was both an installation and a conversation about growing into the need for practice, this article takes the reader through the evolution of my thinking about practice as personal growth, to the point of commencing a new project, <em>Making Autistic Thinking Visible</em>. These findings suggest that there is need for research methodologies to be led and developed by different thinking styles, based in self-awareness, including the ‘internal participatory’ research model I suggest. My example contributes to a bigger picture of diversity in human cognitive variation, that can contribute to a more inclusive (consequently expansive) research culture, displacing standard norms which kill possibilities for different forms of knowledge.</span></p> <h1> </h1>}, number={02}, journal={idea journal}, author={Cain, Patricia}, year={2020}, month={Dec.}, pages={32–57} }