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The word neurodiversity first appeared in publication in 1998, in an article by American journalist Harvey Blume, [25] 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]
Blume discussed the concept of neurological diversity with Australian sociologist Judy Singer. [37] The term "neurodiversity" was first published in Judy Singer's 1998 Honours thesis [38] [39] and in Harvey Blume's 1998 article in The Atlantic. [40]
The term "neurodiversity" was first published in Singer's 1998 Honours thesis [29] [30] and in Blume's 1998 article in The Atlantic. [31] Blume was an early self-advocate who predicted the role the Internet would play in fostering the international neurodiversity movement.
The term first appeared in print in the September 1998 article Neurodiviersity [318] in The Atlantic, by American journalist Harvey Blume. The term neurodivergent was later coined in 2000 [ 319 ] by American neurodiversity activist Kassiane Asasumasu .
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Neurodivergent people as a demographic may have advantages and skills which neurotypical people do not have. [4] A common advantage is difference of perspective; because the demographic has a different lived experience, individuals in that demographic can speak for themselves to share opinions which often differ from neurotypical people.