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NeuroQueer: A Neurodivergent Guide to Love, Sex, and Everything in Between

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Two authors who stand out for me as being on the leading edge of the emerging field of neuroqueer speculative fiction are Dora M. Raymaker and Ada Hoffmann. Dr. Walker: Whatever else it might look like, any future society that has embraced and been transformed by the neurodiversity paradigm would be distinguished by two fundamental qualities: it would be neurocosmopolitan and it would be neuroqueer.

This left autistic activists with the question of how best to describe the nature of our minority status. Being autistic isn't an ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or nationality—so what sort of minority group were we? Autistic scholar Judy Singer, writing on this topic in the late 1990s, provided an answer when she coined the term neurodiversity. 1 Just as humanity is ethnically diverse, and diverse in terms of gender, sexual orientation, and numerous other qualities, humanity is also neurocognitively diverse, and autistics are a neurominority group. I coined the term neurominority a few years after Singer gave us the term neurodiversity 2; it seemed like an obvious extension of Singer's concept, and I'm sure others also came up with it independently. Another essential term is neurodivergent, coined by Kassiane Asasumasu somewhere around the year 2000; to be neurodivergent is to diverge from dominant cultural standards of neurocognitive functioning. 3 The two paradigms—the pathology paradigm and the neurodiversity paradigm—are as fundamentally incompatible as, say, homophobia and the gay rights movement, or misogyny and feminism. In terms of discourse, research, and policy, the pathology paradigm asks, “What do we do about the problem of these people not being normal,” whereas the neurodiversity paradigm asks, “What do we do about the problem of these people being oppressed, marginalized, and/or poorly served and poorly accommodated by the prevailing culture?”Truman, S. E. and Shannon, D. B. (April 2021). Counter-archives of feeling: In-school speculations on queer pasts and anticolonial futures. American Education Research Association (AERA). Virtual conference.

It’s an useful term given that, along the spectrum we have more LGTBQIA+ people around in terms of percentage. Shannon, D. B. (2021). What do ‘propositions’ do for research-creation? Truth and modality in Whitehead and Wittgenstein. Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research. 2(2) (Open Access) When I found the term neuroqueer it seemed as though I had finally found a way of accessing that part of myself that wanted to call forth the notions of my own gender and sexuality. When I say that a future society that's been transformed by the neurodiversity paradigm would be a neuroqueer society, what I mean is that in such a society there would be no such thing as neurotypicality, no such thing as a “normal mind.” It would be commonplace for people to regard their own minds and embodiments as fluid and customizable, as canvases for ongoing creative experimentation, in much the same way that more and more people are doing with their genders. I should note here that part of the idea of neuroqueerness is that heteronormativity and neurotypicality are inextricably entwined with one another, and to queer one is inevitably to queer the other to some degree. In addition to embracing both gender-fluidity and neurofluidity, a neuroqueer culture would recognize gender-fluidity and neurofluidity as being entwined and as synergistically interacting with one another. Postgraduate Certificate in Education: Primary (Music semi-specialism), University of Exeter, 2012.Neurodiversity is the diversity of human minds, the infinite variation in neurocognitive functioning within our species. What It Doesn’t Mean: My 15-year-old identified as LGBTQ and then gender diverse from age 12. In the past 12 months, they now have ADHD and autism diagnoses. Being neurodivergent and LGBTQ means that they are even less understood by their peers. My amazing kid has always been different — quirky, creative, out of the box. They show up in life as one amazing human, even as they continue to struggle to have people understand them.” — An ADDitude Reader Shannon, D.B., Truman, S.E. (2020) 'Problematizing Sound Methods Through Music Research-Creation: Oblique Curiosities.' International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19 The differences between autistic bodyminds and nonautistic bodyminds are very real, and yet at the same time autism is a culturally constructed category that won't necessarily last forever or be culturally relevant forever. A hundred years ago, in the days of Sigmund Freud, physicians and psychologists never imagined that the “illness” they referred to as “hysteria” was a cultural construct that would someday be regarded as a laughably archaic bit of sexist pseudoscience.

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