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What Is Neurodiversity?
The term neurodiversity was coined by autistic researcher Judy Singer in 1998 and was originally conceived in relation to autistic brains.
Ashley Shew • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
However we get there, I believe AS is about brain configuration leading to a specific cognitive style. Of course, personality and an amalgam of other things (e.g. culture, upbringing, IQ, education) add to this picture.
Wendy Lawson • The Passionate Mind: How People with Autism Learn
Often, a person exists somewhere on a spectrum between multiple disorders, or has a unique combination of traits from multiple conditions.
Devon Price • Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
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
... See moreRobert Chapman • Empire of Normality
How do we theorize the neurologically queer?