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Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-05 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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In Authoring Autism M. Remi Yergeau defines neurodivergence as an identity—neuroqueerness—rather than an impairment. Using a queer theory framework, Yergeau
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Authors: Douglas W. Maynard
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-05-25 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Examines the diagnostic process to question how we understand autism as a category and to better recognize its intelligence and uncommon sense. As autism has be
See It Feelingly
Language: en
Pages: 194
Authors: Ralph James Savarese
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-26 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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“We each have Skype accounts and use them to discuss [Moby-Dick] face to face. Once a week, we spread the worded whale out in front of us; we dissect its head
Autistic Disturbances
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-03 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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While research on autism has sometimes focused on special talents or abilities, autism is typically characterized as impoverished or defective when it comes to
Neuroqueer Heresies
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Nick Walker
Categories: Philosophy
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The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on human neurodiversity. Neuroqueer Heresies collects a decade's