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Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement : Stories from the Frontline

This open access book marks the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities and rationales of key leaders in their own words since it organized into a unique community in 1992. Sandwiched by editorial chapters that include critical analysis, the book contains 19 chapters by 21 authors about the forming of the autistic community and neurodiversity movement, progress in their influence on the broader autism community and field, and their possible threshold of the advocacy establishment. The actions covered are legendary in the autistic community, including manifestos such as “Don’t Mourn for Us”, mailing lists, websites or webpages, conferences, issue campaigns, academic project and journal, a book, and advisory roles. These actions have shifted the landscape toward viewing autism in social terms of human rights and identity to accept, rather than as a medical collection of deficits and symptoms to cure.

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: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore., 2020

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XIX, 330 hlm,: ill, lamp;

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English

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9789811384370

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text

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computer

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online resource

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1

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Social Work
Disability studies
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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The first book to bring together a large collection of neurodiverse contributors to talk about events that shaped the movement, and which they themselves were involved with Focuses on activists’ direct experience effecting change for people who identify as autistic rather than abstract accounts that reflect on autism’s social construction or essence Provides a one-stop shop for readers interested in the history and ideas of the neurodiversity movement and how these ideas have shaped production of expert and especially lay knowledge about autism Gathers a collective of autistic activist/academic voices and engages in current theoretical debates around knowledge production and epistemic authority within (critical) research on autism

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Steven K. Kapp

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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0

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