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

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I really wanted to offer this book to my peers at college, as we are on the final level of a counselling qualification, and I feel that it is so important it is for counsellors to be informed about how autistic people actually feel, so that their understanding is not dictated by the medical model.

Nick Walker is a queer, transgender, flamingly autistic author of both speculative fiction and nonfiction, and co-creator of the urban fantasy webcomic Weird Luck (weirdluck. Corporations can co-opt individual words, but they can't co-opt the entire language system of the neurodiversity movement without revealing their colours as part of the attempt. I would be worried about undergraduates reading this unedited early text in the privileged position of course textbook, primarily because the text assigns morality to normative grammar, unintentionally stigmatising those who don't construct sentences and assign meaning in the same way that the author does.This book is for those of us who were always railing against injustice, even when we didn't fully understand what it was we were fighting for or against. In this work of fundamental importance, Nick Walker provides an introduction to neurodiversity and the topics associated with it. Autistic people co-create Autistic culture every day, and it is recorded and made visible one publication at a time.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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 someone who has sought to be the latter for many years, I still come away with several important reminders and tweaks I need to make to my approach and internal attitudes. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fifth volume of the Heartstopper series. Her nonfiction explores the edges and intersections of queerness, neurodivergence, embodiment, and creative transformation. For someone like me who was diagnosed as autistic last year at age 57 this has provided an invaluable and affirming perspective on how I perceive and experience the world.