2023
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/bksxn
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Neurodiversity and autism: between disability and difference, science and ideology - Neurodiversité et autisme : entre handicap et différence, science et idéologie

Abstract: The concept of neurodiversity has been developing for more than twenty years under a socio-political angle and has since been strongly criticized for its lack of scientificity, the vagueness of its boundaries, the highlighting of a certain conception of autism, the problems linked to intellectual disability, inability to support the theory of a non-disabling difference, and an excessive alignment sometimes with the medical model of disability and sometimes with the social model of disability. Furthermore, neur… Show more

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“…While psilocybin will likely become a tool in the hands of doctors (Kelly et al, 2022) in an increasing number of countries, such as the Netherlands, for the treatment of depression, for example (Goldberg et al, 2020), the question arises regarding the pathologization of life experiences of many individuals (Frances, 2013). Could we not consider including aphantasia within cognitive diversity, as part of the plurality of mental processes and cognitive functioning (Rebecchi, 2023a), directly fitting into the neurobiological aspect of the neurodiversity concept that highlights human diversity arising from evolution (Rebecchi, 2022b)?…”
Section: Cognitive Diversity Social Norms and Psychopathologiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While psilocybin will likely become a tool in the hands of doctors (Kelly et al, 2022) in an increasing number of countries, such as the Netherlands, for the treatment of depression, for example (Goldberg et al, 2020), the question arises regarding the pathologization of life experiences of many individuals (Frances, 2013). Could we not consider including aphantasia within cognitive diversity, as part of the plurality of mental processes and cognitive functioning (Rebecchi, 2023a), directly fitting into the neurobiological aspect of the neurodiversity concept that highlights human diversity arising from evolution (Rebecchi, 2022b)?…”
Section: Cognitive Diversity Social Norms and Psychopathologiesmentioning
confidence: 99%