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What Is Neurodiversity?
Neurodiversity at work: a biopsychosocial model and the impact on working adults
Nancy Doyleacademic.oup.com
A new conceptual framework was slowly beginning to emerge, and by the late 1990s a crucial piece of this framework’s vocabulary had been provided by the emergence of the term neurodiversity. Implicit in this juicy new word was an idea that the discourse in the autistic community had been groping its way toward all along: the idea that just as
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The basic point was that we should reject the very idea of a ‘normal’ brain and of the ‘neurotypical’ as an ideal. Instead, it implied viewing mental functioning more in the way we view biodiversity. In this view, it takes all kinds of minds for society to function, and thus normality should not be assumed to be superior to divergence. Rather,
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