Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities

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Lays out extremely digestible definitions of and frameworks for utilizing different terms related to neurodivergence, neurodiversity, and neuroqueer, and the problems with pathologization, as well as provides extremely important input for interacting with and honoring the individuality of autistic individuals (through clinical work, educational settings, and personal relationships). For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation.

But most of all, I wanted a book that would feel accessible and welcoming for non-autistic readers to gain an understanding. Shelving this under ethics, human rights, and justice-making because the disablement of neurodivergent folx is part of social problems of injustice and educational expectations (trying to make people pass as more neurotypical). As well as educating readers about terminology related to neurodiversity, you will learn about the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic empowerment, and postnormal possibilities—a challenge to normativity. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Too often high-profile queer activism relies on shaming people for understanding gender and language in anything other than a middle-class way. Loved this essays, for weaving together queer theory and somatic experience with neurodivergent experiences and theories of neurodiversity. The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on human neurodiversity.

Most people do not intentionally seek to harm those they love or work with, yet many of the current methods—which are accepted by society—are doing just that. And that by unmasking, when possible, we can offer to ourselves and the world an example of another way to live. Full recognition that my background in multiple STEM fields and professional life as a scientist and engineer may exacerbate my intolerance of specific transgressions, but this author could have benefitted tremendously from a greater exposure to mathematical and logic principles. She coined a lot of the words, or knows the people who did, and gives difinative histories and meanings for the words.The author clearly explains how the neurodiversity movement relates to disability justice, gender justice, and other interconnected liberatory movements. As this was actually a collection of essays I felt it sometimes lacked flow and occasionally felt like it needed a tad more embellishment. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. ACT Contact / FAQ About Events / Videos Merch / Subs Sign in/up Neuroqueer Heresies : Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities Walker, Nick More by this author.

As a brief overview - I love and agree with every point made, but really wish that these points were made with a little more sensitivity and a whole lot less ranting. If this makes you uncomfortable, it is worth persistence and engaging in self-reflection as you read further. I think it’ll be helpful in giving people a different way of looking at their diagnosis and understanding of themselves through the neurodiversity paradigm rather than the pathology paradigm.If you are new to these concepts and wondering what neurodiversity actually is, what each of the terms—such as neurodivergent or neurodiverse—mean, and how this relates to autism and Autistic rights, Neuroqueer Heresies is the perfect place to start. This book summarizes where we are at now with the "divide" between professionals using the pathology paradigm (medical model of disability) and the neurodiversity paradigm (social model of disability). Walker encourages the reader to be their true, authentic, oddball selves, regardless of what socio-cultural expectations dictate. Through a critical lens, she explores why the neurodiversity paradigm rejects the medicalisation of autism and neurodiversity. I personally felt that for myself a lot of it has been covered extensively elsewhere so it wasn't particularly revelatory for me.