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DISABILITY & SOCIETY
Volume 29, Issue 7, Pages 1117-1129Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2014.910107
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neurodiversity; neoliberalism; identity; politics
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The neurodiversity movement claims that there are neurological differences in the human population, and that autism is a natural variation among humans not a disease or a disorder, just 'a difference'. A 'politics of neurodiversity' is based on the claim that the 'neurodiverse' population constitutes a political grouping comparable with those of class, gender, sexuality or race. This paper considers the limits and possibilities of neurodiverse political activism, and concludes by calling for a politics of identity that does not depend on a politics of 'us' and 'them'.
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