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Devon Price is an American social psychologist, blogger, and author focusing on autism. He is best known for his books, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity and Laziness Does Not Exist , as well as for publishing shorter pieces on Medium and Psychology Today .
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.
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]
EAU CLAIRE — Many can see being on the autism spectrum as incredibly limiting, but one group allows the neurodivergent a path to unlimited creative expression through art. The Fellowship was ...
Autism In Entertainment partnered with The Miracle Project and The Laugh Factory to host “Let It Out,” a stand-up comedy show for neurodivergent fans Wednesday night. “Let It Out” featured ...
Sensory refuge van for the neurodivergent coming to Times Square for New Year’s Eve: ‘Once-in-a-lifetime experience’ Katherine Donlevy December 29, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Proponents of neurodiversity strive to reconceptualize autism and related conditions in society by acknowledging that neurodiversity does not require a cure, changing the language from the current "condition, disease, disorder, or illness"-based nomenclature, "broadening the understanding of healthy or independent living", acknowledging new ...
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.