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What Is Neurodiversity?
Saved by Anne-Laure Le Cunff and
The term neurodiversity was coined by autistic researcher Judy Singer in 1998 and was originally conceived in relation to autistic brains.
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, ther
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