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Nick Walker is an American scholar, author, webcomic creator, and aikido teacher, known for contributing to the development of the neurodiversity paradigm, establishing the foundations of neuroqueer theory, and writing the essay collection Neuroqueer Heresies and the urban fantasy webcomic Weird Luck.
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.
Silberman's 2015 book Neurotribes, [3] which discusses the autism rights and neurodiversity movements, was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Additionally, Silberman's Wired article "The Geek Syndrome", [ 6 ] which focused on autism in Silicon Valley , has been referenced by many sources and has been described as a culturally ...
The neurodiversity paradigm is a framework for understanding human brain function that considers the diversity within sensory processing, motor abilities, social comfort, cognition, and focus as neurobiological differences. This diversity falls on a spectrum of neurocognitive differences. [1]
M. Remi Yergeau (formerly Melanie Yergeau, born 1984) [1] is an American academic in the fields of rhetoric and writing studies, digital studies, queer rhetoric, disability studies, and theories of mind.
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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 ]
Neurodiversity advocates oppose researching a "cure" for autism, and instead support research that helps autistic people thrive as they are. [2] An analysis of data from the UK and Hungary in 2017 found evidence that autistic or intellectually disabled self-advocates are rarely involved in leadership or decision-making within organisations. [63]