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

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I am slightly annoyed to find that the ideas I thought I had that were original have actually been thought before, and articulated more elegantly than I could have done. While I was annoyed at the extra explanations before each essay, I actually started to really enjoy reading the thinking behind each idea, term, and piece of writing Walker came up with. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

But be prepared to sift through vast amounts of over-explaining and a chunky chapter filled with ranting about the incorrect use of language.This book has MANY typos—mostly just missing words that made me reread several sentences multiple times. Not an easy read, but worth the trouble (and there is the occasional Princess Bride and Monty Python reference thrown in to keep you entertained! I loved the part about how disability should be looked at from the lens of society’s inability to accommodate neurodivergent people. Walker is co-founder and Managing Editor of the worker-owned indie publishing house Autonomous Press, and has co-edited and contributed to multiple volumes of the annual Spoon Knife neuroqueer lit anthology published by Autonomous Press' NeuroQueer Books imprint. 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.

As a neurodivergent professional working with people whose neurodivergence differs from my own, it is helpful to be educated and reminded about many of the inherently ableist attitudes and practices that serve as obstacles to our community, even though I have experienced it on some level.As well as educating readers about terminology related to neurodiversity, you will learn about the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic empowerment, and postnormal possibilities—a challenge to normativity.

The result has been a stable and trustworthy linguistic platform on top of which others have been able to build and continue to build.Just as it's possible to use the word 'neurodiversity' and be working within the pathology paradigm, I hope the author will now recognise that people can potentially construct phrases in a variety of ways and be working within a neurodiversity paradigm. Walker encourages the reader to be their true, authentic, oddball selves, regardless of what socio-cultural expectations dictate.