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Politics, Economics, World Outlooks and Influences
This chapter summarises current concerns about political, democratic, socio-economic trends, screen technology effects and ecological choices that...
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The Wellbeing of People with Neurodiverse Conditions
Diversity in human attributes provides for richness in how we engage and flourish as people and communities. This fact may not be apparent or as well...
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Autistic and Mad: Dialogue with Nick Walker
Herein survivor and leading neurodiversity theorist, Nick Walker articulates the difference between “the neurodiversity paradigm” and the “medical...
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Introduction
Both of the quotes with which I open this chapter speak about the potential of autistic1 people to live lives that are personally fulfilling and that...
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Toward a Social Understanding of Mental Health
My goal in this chapter is to contest the deficit views of people who are discursively constructed as being mentally ill or disordered. In the...
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Adaptation as Reciprocal Dynamic
My interest in human adaptation follows from my efforts to understand neurodiversity. This topic has occupied my attention informally for nearly 30...