Image description: A random stack of dark green and yellow cards with various texts. Two cards prominently read, “Cards Against Neurotypicality.” Photo: Jay Afrisando.
Cards Against Neurotypicality
“neurospiced” card game
with contributions from Terry Perdanawati and Simoné Goldschmidt-Lechner.
For neurodivergent bodyminds, communication can be nonlinear, nonverbal, and multisensory. Attention and auditory issues can also play significant parts during communication, which neurotypical people can find difficult to understand.
Through Cards Against Neurotypicality, people are invited to experience what communication feels like from neurodivergent perspectives. Inspired by Cards Against Humanity, this card game invites two to three players to experience a variety of divergent forms of communication.
Just as the original game that inspired this work, the title serves as a humorous critique of neurotypical behaviour.
Work details
Year created: 2025
Format: card game for 2 - 4 players
Game style: party game, educational game
Medium: digital print on card
Cast
Concept and Game Design: Jay Afrisando
With Contributions from: Terry Perdanawati & Simoné Goldschmidt-Lechner
Graphic Designer: Juan Constantine Elang Perkasa
This project was created during Jay Afrisando’s DAAD Artists-in-Berlin residency 2024-25, and exhibited at the In Conversation exhibition, curated by Dr. Kate Brehme.
In Conversation is supported by the DAAD Artists-in-Residence Program in Berlin, the University of California, Santa Cruz, the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, and the Exhibition Fund for Communal Galleries. The Galerie im Turm is run by the municipal government of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.
Exhibition
In Conversation, Galerie im Turm, Berlin, DE, 4 September - 23 November 2025.
Some cards are opened and laid on a table. Photo: Jay Afrisando. Event: “In Conversation” exhibition, 2025.
A couple plays a board game, while another one plays the card game on a different table. Photo: Mareike J. Lange. Event: “In Conversation” exhibition, 2025.
A wide shot of the table-top games, each one on a separate table. The image also features a monitor and printed transcription installation on the left and a reading corner on the far right corner. Photo: Eric Tschernow. Event: “In Conversation” exhibition, 2025.