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The roles of identity and culture are fundamental to the Neurodiversity Movement, a civil rights movement focused on the needs and autonomy of people with brains that diverge from societal standards (ie, neurodivergent people; Walker, 2014). The concept of neurodiversity highlights the reality of variation in brain structure/function and questions the need to pathologize such differences. Although neurodiversity is a broad umbrella of neurotypes, Autistic1 voices have been predominant in development of the concept and related advocacy (Milton, 2020). Although the Neurodiversity Movement emerged in the 1990s, its influence on the autism literature in communication sciences and disorders (CSD) has not been apparent until the last decade. Professional narratives around autism continue to largely center nonautistic, abled, monolingual, White, male, cisgender, and heterosexual perspectives. Consequently, our …