Autism as metaphor: narrative and counter‐narrative

Autism parents & neurodiversity: Radical translation, joint embodiment and the prosthetic environment

“…They challenge what they see as a tyranny of 'neurotypical' (read: non-autistic) forms of sociality and communication that fail to recognize autistic personhood, and they correctly point out that this sort of devaluation has led to serious abuses. They offer wittily contrapuntal slogans, like 'eye contact is overrated', and produce astute socio-political analyses (for example, Broderick and Ne'eman, 2008;Ne'eman, 2010) and innovative scientific research (for example, Dawson et al, 2007). Many self-advocates agree that autism is a kind of disability, and that autistic people are 'wired differently' than neurotypicals (Ortega, 2009;Kapp et al, 2013).…”

Institutionalized Ableism and the Misguided “Disability Awareness Day”: Transformative Pedagogies for Teacher Education

“…However, in an emerging body of critical scholarship that frames disability as a social construct situated in cultural, political, and historical contexts, disability is positioned as human diversity rather than embodied deficits (Broderick & Ne'eman, 2008;Connor & Gabel, 2013).…”

Autism, Expert Discourses, and Subjectification: A Critical Examination of Applied Behavioural Therapies

“…Psychocentrism, as a form of ableism, characterizes "all human problems" as "innate pathologies of the individual mind/body" (Rimke, 2010a, p. 96). Some of these so-called pathologies, like autism, are considered evil and tragic epidemics constituting states of emergency that require expert treatment and prevention (Broderick & Ne'eman, 2008;Thierry, 2006;Wright, 2013). Perceptions and classifications of normality and pathology are shaped by neoliberalism (Rimke, 2010a(Rimke, , 2010b.…”