neurospicycommunity.org is independent documentation of harm patterns in a paid neurodivergent community — and the record of what was built in response. It is not affiliated with Sol Smith, Sebastian Knowles, or neurospicycommunity.com.
The NeuroSpicy Community is operated by Sol Smith (Professor Sol) — founder and owner of Square Peg Coaching and Consulting, his separate coaching practice at professorsol.com — and is owned by Sebastian Knowles, who runs the website, backend, and paid subscription. Sol provides the coaching and public-facing brand; Sebastian owns the platform. Square Peg is Sol's business, not a joint venture with Sebastian. The community charges $29/month and markets itself as a safe space for autistic and ADHD adults. Between late 2024 and early 2026, at least five members were removed without explanation, without posted guidelines, without an appeals process, and without refund.
One of those members was Josh Wolf, who had been working with Sol Smith since March 2024 — first as a coaching client, then as someone who pitched a neurodivergent community platform that Sol declined, then watched Sol launch the NeuroSpicy Community six weeks later. Josh joined, contributed, and was removed three times over fourteen months.
This site is the record he built in response. It is sourced, documented, and evidenced. Every claim is based on correspondence held by the author. Nothing has been silently removed or revised — the documentation archive includes the primary source materials.
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. That is not a minor governance gap. It 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 accountability record. What happened. Why it matters. The full documented correspondence. The creative and analytical work produced in response.
Explore the documentation →A free, peer-led neurodivergent community co-stewarded by Josh Wolf and Joy on Skool. 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.
Josh Wolf is a journalist and autistic adult based on eleven acres in Nevada City, California. He builds AI tools for a living. He co-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 records as The Wolf and The Machine. The album I Am Joshua — thirteen tracks of AI-assisted electronica, one track 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: a neuroaffirming world isn't a world designed around disability. It's a world designed around the actual diversity of human neurology. That world 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, the body of work on this site — the documentation, the analysis, the fiction, the music, the framework documents — was produced across journalism, creative writing, music, and institutional design. It is a record of what someone builds when they refuse to stay quiet about a harm pattern in a space that was supposed to be safe. The analytical papers and creative essays are collected and linked from this site.
Submit documentation or your experience
If you were removed from the NeuroSpicy Community without explanation, due process, or refund, and you would like to 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: April 21, 2026