As Marek [1] advocates, a true editorial identifies and discusses a thesis topic besides
introducing the issue articles. Since this special issue is dedicated to our fellow human …

Discussion Neurodiversity is a concept that avoids the obstacles of current medical
diagnostic language that distinguishes between healthy and unhealthy (Dyck & Russell …

This chapter will explore critical disability theory and the autistic identity to contextualize the
current neurodiversity movement. We will discuss the historical and pathological …

Montreal, in May, one topic widely debated was the concept of neurodiversity. It is dividing
the autism community, but it doesn't have to. The term “neurodiversity” gained popular …

This article recognizes autism as an urgent and largely neglected social issue and frames
autism in the context of the neurodiversity movement. In comparing the ideology of this …

I came into neurodiversity activism sideways. It isn't the main reason I co-founded the online
nexus and book Thinking Person's Guide to Autism [1]—the goal at the time was to debunk …

I was unschooled in autism before 1999. When Oliver Sacks's article,“An Anthropologist on
Mars,” appeared in The New Yorker in 1993 [1], my husband, Dave, and I had thought of our …

Neurodiversity refers to variations between human minds occurring naturally within a
population, and includes conditions such as autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder …

The Autism binary has generated much discourse recently among researchers, parents of
Autistic children, Autistic individuals and the Autism community, and neurotypicals …

Sue Fletcher-Watson holds a Personal Chair in Developmental Psychology at the University
of Edinburgh, and is Director of the Salvesen Mindroom Research Centre. She is interested …