Deficit, difference, or both? Autism and neurodiversity.
- ️Mon Nov 08 2004
2013
Abstract: The neurodiversity movement challenges the medical model's interest in causation and cure, celebrating autism as an inseparable aspect of identity. Using an online survey, we examined the perceived opposition between the medical model and the neurodiversity movement by assessing conceptions of autism and neurodiversity among people with different relations to autism. Participants (N = 657) included autistic people, relatives and friends of autistic people, and people with no specified relation to autism. Self-… Show more
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“…Hart's (2014) observations would seem to support Kapp et al's (2013) reports of "the false dichotomy between celebrating differences and ameliorating deficits" (p.67) in the discursively mediated real world experiences of people living with AS and autism.…”
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“…Hart's (2014) observations would seem to support Kapp et al's (2013) reports of "the false dichotomy between celebrating differences and ameliorating deficits" (p.67) in the discursively mediated real world experiences of people living with AS and autism.…”
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“…Kapp et al (2013) report for example that "autistic individuals endorsed a relatively essentialist biological attribution of autism" (p.66). This is, I suggest, another reason for the ineffectiveness of 'neurodiversity' as a challenge to normalcy and as an anti-ableist discourse.…”
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“…He described the possible diagnostic criteria for 'neurotypical disorder' such as excessive concern about what other people think of them and a delusional belief in the ability to read others' minds (https://neurotypicalsyndrome.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/nt-syndrome-diagnostic-criteria). While producing good-natured humour, Mark's analysis was also a thought-provoking way of highlighting the pejorative nature of deficit-focused labelling of characteristics that many (though by no means all) consider part of natural human variation (Kapp et al, 2013).…”
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“…We use these terms to reflect those used in the positive reframing of autistic identities through the neurodiversity movement (e.g. Kapp, Gillespie-Lynch, Sherman & Hutman, 2013). The introductory address by Richard Brown, CEO of Autism Sussex, put into relief some stark figures on access to employment and services for adults with autism.…”
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