“Neuronormativity” means that being neurotypical is the only regular, natural, and valid way to think, feel, behave, and communicate.
Emma Reardon discusses the difference between her own autistic expression of empathy compared to neurotypical empathy and the role the sensory plays in how we feel and demonstrate empathy.
These tropes can be frustratingly repetitive, they can also be downright harmful. Of all the basic tropes that grace our screens, few are more concerning than the manic pixie dream girl.
“Routines, for me, are based on the experience of something. The completion of something. The beginning of something. Time is a structural barrier to these experiences.”
“Jalisco never loses” is a phrase that alludes to a person who never admits to having lost. A story of communication differences in an autistic and NT relationship.
The Neurodiversity Movement is a mutiny, and it’s unapologetic, alive, and kinetic. No more can the autism-as-wretched-waif paradigm survive the cultural landscape of Neurodiversity.
What if autistics were the majority and your child were suspected to be neurotypical? How would the diagnostic process look inside a family?
An exploration of the source of the division between neurodiversity advocates and the rest of the world and a proposal for common ground.
Why aspie-neurotypical relationships often start out with intensity and passion but fizzle and end in disaster.
Fear and skepticism are mounting over growing concerns that seatbelts may be behind the startling allism epidemic that is sweeping the globe.
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