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Neuroqueer heresies : notes on the neurodiversity paradigm, autistic empowerment, and postnormal possibilities / Nick Walker.

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Fort Worth, Tex. : Autonomous Press, 2021.

9781945955266 (pbk.)

193 p. ; 22 cm.

What's in this book, and how it came to be -- Part I: The neurodiversity paradigm. The story behind "Throw away the master's tools" -- Throw away the master's tools: liberating ourselves from the pathology paradigm -- Comments on "Throw away the master's tools" -- Neurodiversity: some basic terms & definitions -- Defining neurodiversity -- Defining neurotypicality & neurodivergence -- Neurodivergence & disability -- Reflections on neurocosmopolitanism -- Part II: Autistic empowerment. The story behind "What is autism?" -- What is autism? -- Autism and social trauma -- Person-first language is the language of autistiphobic bigots -- On the practice of stimming -- The story behind "This is autism" -- This is autism -- Commments on "This is autism" -- For parents of autistic children -- Autism and the pathology paradigm -- Making the shift to the neurodiversity paradigm -- The story behind "Neurotypical psychotheraptists & autistic clients" -- Neurotypical psychotherapists & autistic clients -- Guiding principles for a course on autism -- Part III: Postnormal possibilities. Neuroqueer: an introduction. -- Comments on "neuroqueer: an introduction" -- A horizon of possibility: some notes on neuroqueer theory -- Acknowledgments.

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