/2007/09/09/the-neurodiverse-vs-the-cure/ Health and Science Blog Covering Brain Topics Sat, 29 Dec 2018 04:00:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 /2007/09/09/the-neurodiverse-vs-the-cure/#comment-509522 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:53:31 +0000 /2007/09/09/the-neurodiverse-vs-the-cure/#comment-509522 […] neurodiversity movement is not new, though it is gaining in strength and numbers around the world. Its supporters, often […]

]]> /2007/09/09/the-neurodiverse-vs-the-cure/#comment-449113 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:30:49 +0000 /2007/09/09/the-neurodiverse-vs-the-cure/#comment-449113 […] neurodiversity movement is not new, though it is gaining in strength and numbers around the world. Its supporters, often […]

]]> /2007/09/09/the-neurodiverse-vs-the-cure/#comment-66869 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:49:53 +0000 /2007/09/09/the-neurodiverse-vs-the-cure/#comment-66869 Oh dang, now I feel like I need a t-shirt that says “Promoting Neurodiversity since 1948.” Or maybe “Subscribing To.”

]]> /2007/09/09/the-neurodiverse-vs-the-cure/#comment-64522 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:30:11 +0000 /2007/09/09/the-neurodiverse-vs-the-cure/#comment-64522 Just finished reading Distress by Greg Egan (1995), in which there is a character who gives a media interview about the Voluntary Autists Association. He’s their Media Liaison Officer and represents their views over several pages (starting on p. 57 in the paperback). He makes a case that being subclinically autistic does not obligate the person to undertake autografts to correct the damage, a medical procedure that is posited to exist in the story. He makes an eloquent argument for a person’s right to choose to go through their life that way, and not be discriminated against. Includes several very thought-provoking ideas.

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