Blogs about: Neurodiversity

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It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)3 comments

creativespark wrote 4 days ago: With every change there’s a backlash, and I’ve noticed there’s a new form of Ludd … more →

Tags: Creativity, Urban Life, Web Technology, Autism, autistic cognitive style, Ben Casnocha, Bob Batchelor, Cognitive Styles, Critical Thinking

A Thought

almandite wrote 6 days ago: Lower functioning Autists who were later able to speak, like Donna Williams, say that they have cons … more →

Tags: Autism, intellectual disability

Brain Damage

almandite wrote 6 days ago: If Autism is brain damage, then we should want a cure. If it’s a differently designed brain, t … more →

Tags: Autism

Neurodiversity: Schizophrenia

wildrote wrote 1 week ago: Neurodiversity is a term describing the state of having a diversity of neurological forms that are c … more →

Tags: Joseph Campbell, Loren Mosher, schizophrenia, Shamanism, Soteria, Terrence McKenna

On Empathy, & People As Objects

almandite wrote 2 weeks ago: I mean… I don’t see people as souls to connect to. You know how fireflys are drawn to li … more →

Tags: Autism, empathy, Me

More "Cure" Ramblings

almandite wrote 2 weeks ago: I would not take the cure.  It would be like “curing” my height–there is nothing t … more →

Tags: Autism, Cure, Disability, Eugenics, intellectual disability

Thoughts

almandite wrote 3 weeks ago: PDD-NOS, Asperger’s, and HFA are several times more likely than LFA. LFA is severe autism with … more →

Tags: Advocacy, Eugenics, Cure, intellectual disability, Autism

Reflections

almandite wrote 1 month ago: I’m writing a thing about the kids I work with. And the thing that strikes me are that the con … more →

Tags: Autism, Lifeskills, Neuroscience

June 18th...Autistic Pride Day1 comment

morethananumber wrote 1 month ago: Did you know June 18th is Autistic Pride Day? It was started by Aspies For Freedom and is celebrate … more →

Tags: 18, Autism, Autistic, autistic pride day, Celebrate, June 18, Love, Pride

Pattern Recognition

almandite wrote 1 month ago: One of the things about Autistic people is that we tend to be abnormally good at systematizing thing … more →

Tags: Autism, Interesting

Design vs. Damage1 comment

almandite wrote 1 month ago: I believe that Autism is one of several natural and perfectly valid ways of configuring the brain. I … more →

Tags: Autism, Disability, Rambling

Neurodiversity

almandite wrote 1 month ago: One of the most frequent accusations leveled at the Autism Acceptance/Neurodiversity movement is tha … more →

Tags: Autism, Disability, Cure

Foucauldian Approach to Autism?1 comment

bmckernan wrote 1 month ago: by bmckernan A recent article in Newsweek on new scientific advancements in understanding autism pro … more →

Tags: Collective Behaviour and Social Movements, Crime and Deviance, Culture, science and medicine, Foucault, Autism

X-Aspie

almandite wrote 2 months ago: I have now watched all the X-Men movies, and Wolverine, and am contemplating the comics once I finis … more →

Tags: Autism, Me, X-Men

Learning from Evangelists4 comments

frogger11758 wrote 2 months ago: I’m currently reading Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement by Lauren Sand … more →

Tags: Friendship Friday, Disclosure, Friends, Socializing, You Should Know...., Autism

How big can we dream? 15 comments

frogger11758 wrote 2 months ago: As most of you know by now, I work with two families in my college town, Charger and his parents, an … more →

Tags: Charger Therapy, Autism, Autism Pride, Diagnosis, Response

Mental Illness2 comments

wolbring wrote 2 months ago: There is a lively debate around it. I find it strange that such article can appear in a student news … more →

Tags: Mad Pride, Mental Health

Heteronormativity, or "Sodomy doesn't make babies."

Elisabeth wrote 2 months ago: We live in a heteronormative society and it’s bad, bad, bad. At least, that’s what ce … more →

Tags: anti-PC, Political Correctness, heteronormativity, Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, homonormativity, Society, societal norms, Culture

The Autism Identity Crisis

charlenecroft wrote 2 months ago: “To review the concept of identity means to sketch its history… ‘Identity’ a … more →

Tags: Autism, Autism Culture, Autism Research, autism theory


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