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The term originates from the concept of neurodiversity, which was coined in the 1990s by Australian sociologist Judy Singer to describe natural differences in human brain functioning, Dr. Lawrence ...
Neurodiversity is an umbrella term for the wide range of ways people’s brains work. Basically, every mind on the planet is unique, ...
The word neurodiversity first appeared in publication in 1998, in an article by American journalist Harvey Blume, [24] as a portmanteau of the words neurological diversity, which had been used as early as 1996 in online spaces such as InLv to describe the growing concept of a natural diversity in humanity's neurological expression. [3]
In 2016, she published the book Neurodiversity: The Birth of an Idea. [11] Singer has distanced herself from the expansion of the term neurodiversity outside of her original focus on "high functioning" autism awareness when coining the term, stating: “I was very clear in my thesis that I was only talking about Asperger’s." [12]
Walker initially began writing about neurodiversity and developing her conceptualization of the neurodiversity paradigm in 2003, in online autistic activist forums. Her first piece on the neurodiversity paradigm to appear in print was the essay “Throw Away the Master’s Tools: Liberating Ourselves from the Pathology Paradigm”, published in 2012.
The changing practice was to practice cultural understanding for neurodiversity as a social difference or personal identity. [5] In this framing, neuroatypical conditions could be recognized as another form of diversity comparable to gender, sexual orientation, or race. [5]
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity is a book by Steve Silberman that discusses autism and neurodiversity [1] from historic, scientific, and advocacy-based perspectives. Neurotribes was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2015, [2] [3] and has received wide acclaim from both the scientific and the popular press.
The autism rights movement, also known as the autistic culture movement or the neurodiversity movement, is a social movement within the context of disability rights that emphasizes the concept of neurodiversity, viewing the autism spectrum as a result of natural variations in the human brain rather than a disorder to be cured. [23]