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

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I loved the part about how disability should be looked at from the lens of society’s inability to accommodate neurodivergent people. I simply felt that nobody non-autistic, who had ever had any misunderstanding of autism, would be able to get through the book without feeling downtrodden and heavily criticised. I am slightly annoyed to find that the ideas I thought I had that were original have actually been thought before, and articulated more elegantly than I could have done. However, Walker's prescriptivist lens has, to give one example, the unfortunate consequence of obscuring the neurodiversity within autistic populations. On one hand, I really want to leave this book a raving review because I feel so strongly about the message given!

Neuroqueer Heresies is a collection of essays, written by Walker over the course of a decade, including new, previously unpublished works. 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. Loved this essays, for weaving together queer theory and somatic experience with neurodivergent experiences and theories of neurodiversity.

The author’s arguments against person-first language are eye opening and I am grateful to have been given this perspective.

I am aware that this book is meant to be an academic text, especially since the author literally wrote that she intended to use this book as a textbook for courses she teaches. The more individuals neuroqueer, the more we can neuroqueer spaces and cultures, and resist neurodivergent people being made neurominorities.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Although I didn't always agree with the concepts Dr Walker expressed (I generally did), I DID appreciate the historical view of the "origins" of the phrase neuroqueer, which I've been familiar with for about the last decade, via Tumblr. I was planning on just dipping in and out of this but ended up reading it from start to finish in a day. 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.

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