Panda Mery

Panda Mery | 판다 메리

Almost too calm productive irritant,
neurodivergent researcher, bricoleur and flâneur

panfnordda@gizmofnordnaut.net

calm, almost too calm: 1. Name of this website.; 2. Description on a police custody record: ‘RISK ASSESSMENT: D[etained] P[risoner] is calm on arrival, almost too calm’.; 3. State of the author when in stressful situations.; 4. Title of a chapter in the book Being Autistic.

gizmonaut: 1. Domain name of this website.; 2. Portmanteau word (gizmo + astronaut) meaning an explorer of things you can’t put a name to.

Locations: London & Seoul – Earth

Current projects

Research partner at the University of Glasgow on the Older Autistic’s Kit project that investigates older Autists’ experiences of technology and is developing a website to identify venues and services appreciated by them.
Board member of AutAngel, a community interest company run by and for Autists.
연구원 숲생각 / Researcher, Forest Media, an artist collective.
Restarter, helping others repair and maintain the world one device at a time.

A selection of blog articles

Police apologise for unlawful arrest, after four years, one month and 26 days
(more details: Innocent in London – ‘Suspicious behaviour on the tube’)
Innocent in the UK, unwelcomed in the USA

A brief intro to autism
‘Being Autistic’ - terminology
Are surveys fair to autistics?
‘Being Autistic’ – Calm, almost too calm (autobiographical chapter)
Shining some light on large controversial autism research projects
- Spectrum 10K: What is it about? (ICO’s decision notice)
- Autism Innovative Medicine Studies-2-Trials (AIMS-2): a FAQ, Attempting to lift the veil of secrecy, and Some questions
Open letter to the National Autistic Society (NAS) trustees
We do not want to be better served by the justice system, we want a better system
Autistic behaviour considered suspicious (video)
Autism: a guide for police officers and staff
Counter terrorism campaign, a risk for autistics
Police marking of autistics
Policing of autistic suspects
Evidence to the Home Affairs Committee's inquiry into policing and mental health
(supplementary evidence about the incidents at the River House mental health secure unit and Taser use forms)
Be seeing you
Techie and terrorist behavioural profiles are the same

About spoons and spudgers: community repair for neurodivergents

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Read more blog articles in the archive.

A few soapflakes from EXE Magazine

'Pataphysical and other occurences

Most of my photographs are on Flickr.

Panda Mery - View some of my recent photos on Flickriver

A smartphone and a Bluetooth headset are some of the tools that have hanged from my batbelt. I have been found to carry other stuff too.

Some of my Freedom of Information requests are on WhatDoTheyKnow (some older ones also on WhatDoTheyKnow).

My Curriculum vitae

Fediverse: @panda@assemblag.es

Many thanks to everyone visiting this website. It has been developed while listening to Nahmi’s music.