Over the past several years, I’ve been reading more and more about “neurodiversity.” These pieces are sometimes tinged with judgement about those who are considered “neurotypical.” While I love the ...
Neurodiversity first emerged as a concept in the 1990s, arising from discussions in an autistic-run online group (Dekker, 2020). While it has taken many years of advocacy to bring the notion to the ...
Public perceptions of autism have come far in the 80 years since Austrian American scientist Leo Kanner first described a neurodevelopmental childhood disorder causing “an innate inability to form the ...