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Following the rise of the autism rights movement in the 1990s, many autistic advocates, including Asasumasu, recognized that a wide variety of people experienced the world in ways similar to autistic people, despite not being autistic. As a result, Asasumasu coined the related terms neurodivergent and neurodivergence circa 2000. [10]
Autistic masking is the act of concealing autistic traits to come across as neurotypical, as if behind a mask. Autistic masking, also referred to as camouflaging, is the conscious or subconscious suppression of autistic behaviors and compensation of difficulties in social interaction by autistic people, with the goal of being perceived as neurotypical.
Proponents of neurodiversity strive to reconceptualize autism and related conditions in society by acknowledging that neurodivergence is not something that needs to be cured, changing the language from the current "condition, disease, disorder, or illness"-based nomenclature, "broadening the understanding of healthy or independent living ...
Luke Gawthorn is one of the approximately three million people in the UK with autism, ADHD or dyslexia who say they have been discriminated against by a hiring manager because of their condition
University of San Diego professors are developing programs to empower neurodivergent students --- those with autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, dyslexia, among other learning differences.
Boys are 4 times likelier to be diagnosed with autism and twice as likely with dyslexia ... Approximately 15% to 20% of the world’s population is neurodivergent, meaning a diagnosis in women is ...
The Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc. (CARD) is an organization that provides a range of services based on applied behavior analysis (ABA) for children and adults on the autism spectrum. CARD was founded in 1990 by Doreen Granpeesheh. The Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, acquired CARD in 2018.
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.