neurospicycommunity.org is the home of NeuroSpicy Refugees, and of the writing and music that came out of the experience that made it necessary. It is not affiliated with Sol Smith, Sebastian Knowles, or neurospicycommunity.com.
Josh Wolf was removed three times from a paid community for autistic and ADHD adults, without posted rules, an explanation, or an appeal. He wasn't the only one. NeuroSpicy Refugees is what he built so it couldn't happen again: free, with the agreement posted before anyone joined, and no removal without a reason and a chance to answer.
This site is the community's home on the open web. It holds the comparison with the paid community, the FAQ, and the creative and analytical work produced along the way.
The full account is in the book, The Story of NeuroSpicy: How a Safe Space Became a Subscription. Every claim is based on correspondence held by the author. The source documents remain online, and the book and the FAQ link to them.
Accountability journalism. A community alternative. A body of creative and analytical work produced by someone who refused to stay silent about a harm pattern in a space marketed as safe.
It is not affiliated with Sol Smith or neurospicycommunity.com. It is not a campaign of harassment. It is not anonymously sourced: the author is named.
The NeuroSpicy Community built a $29/month paid community for autistic adults, people who cannot intuit unwritten social rules, and used unwritten rules as its removal mechanism. A minor governance gap would be one thing. This is the specific harm the community claimed to protect people from.
The documentation work and the community-building work are the same project. They were built simultaneously and they belong together.
The home of NeuroSpicy Refugees on the open web. The comparison, the FAQ, the book, and the creative and analytical work.
Explore the site →A free, peer-led neurodivergent community on Skool, stewarded by Josh Wolf, with steward seats open for nomination. Rules exist before decisions. No subscription. No unchecked power.
Join free on Skool →A peer-led healing community platform built by TranquilTech, designed for what NeuroSpicy Refugees represents: governance-first, trauma-informed, community-owned digital spaces.
Learn about Mycelial →NeuroSpicy Refugees runs on Skool because Skool is free and the community needed to move fast. The governance model it represents (peer-led, transparent, owned by the people in it) is what Mycelial is built to make possible at scale. Refugees is under the care of TranquilTech, which is raising its seed round. Running it costs under $30 a month, Skool's $9 plan and a paid Zoom account. TranquilTech covers that and does not moderate.
Josh Wolf is a journalist and autistic adult based on eleven acres in Nevada City, California. He builds AI tools for a living. He stewards NeuroSpicy Refugees, a free peer-led neurodivergent community on Skool. He documents harm patterns in paid spaces that market themselves as safe for people like him. He has spent the last two years doing all three simultaneously.
TranquilTech's primary product is Mycelial, a peer-led healing community platform designed from the governance commitments that NeuroSpicy Refugees now models: rules before decisions, transparency before enforcement, distributed power by design.
He writes under his own name and, for fiction and myth, as Harrison Shaw. He records as The Wolf and The Machine. The album I Am Joshua, thirteen tracks of AI-assisted electronica, one for each chapter of the NeuroSpicy Community experience, was recorded during the same months this website was built. The documentation and the music are the same project.
He wrote Designing from the Roots, which maps permaculture's twelve design principles against Tema Okun's dominant culture characteristics, filtered through autistic lived experience. The argument: when you design for the actual range of human neurology instead of treating it as disability, you get a world that works better for everyone.
He runs Intellibotique, an AI agency. He and Joy co-stewarded the NeuroSpicy Refugees community after his third removal from the NeuroSpicy Community in March 2026. Between March 2024 and April 2026 he produced everything on this site: the documentation, the analysis, the fiction, the music, the framework documents. It is what he did instead of staying quiet. The analytical papers and creative essays are collected and linked from this site.
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If you were removed from a paid community without explanation, due process, or refund, and you want to talk to someone who has been there, or share your experience for the record, contact:
contact@neurospicycommunity.org
Your identity will be protected unless you choose otherwise. Documentation is held by the author of this site.
Last updated: September 2026