Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities

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very interesting and thought-provoking, although repetitive at times - mostly due to this book being a collection of essays from a single author on different aspects of the same subject. On one hand, I really want to leave this book a raving review because I feel so strongly about the message given!

There is a lot more to say in terms of how Walker also looks at the idea of queer and Neuroqueer as its own paradigm, getting underneath binary ideas of gender and sexuality, but I want to let you know mostly that this is a brilliant book, and if you are interested in any form of neurodiversity, a must read. This book collects Nick’s most critical writings on neurodiversity, autism and queerness and is a must read for anyone with an interest in these topics. Just as it's possible to use the word 'neurodiversity' and be working within the pathology paradigm, I hope the author will now recognise that people can potentially construct phrases in a variety of ways and be working within a neurodiversity paradigm. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. While I was annoyed at the extra explanations before each essay, I actually started to really enjoy reading the thinking behind each idea, term, and piece of writing Walker came up with.I really wanted to offer this book to my peers at college, as we are on the final level of a counselling qualification, and I feel that it is so important it is for counsellors to be informed about how autistic people actually feel, so that their understanding is not dictated by the medical model.

This is the second queer, trans, autistic, doctorate-level author I’ve found in the last month and I am again so disoriented after reading.

This is because an entire population is diverse, including both those with extra privilege and those who don't conform to normative standards. This is a book by an autistic thinker, theorist, and activist who has played a key role in shaping the language and frameworks at the the core of the neurodiversity movement.

I have been looking for a book to recommend to families who are exploring their children’s diagnoses and also questioning if they, themselves, may also be autistic. This book is for those of us who were always railing against injustice, even when we didn't fully understand what it was we were fighting for or against. Behind all of this though, were conclusions about social behavior and biological systems that are both absolutely true and not often talked about.Throw Away the Master’s tools is a popular essay detailing the reasons we need radical changes to improve the lives of Autistic people. I’m donating a new, un-Rosie-marked copy of this book to the little autistic library I’m building at my work. If this makes you uncomfortable, it is worth persistence and engaging in self-reflection as you read further. And thank goodness for independent thinkers, if we are going to grow culture it's totally necessary.

She's also a professor of psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies, an aikido teacher, and a lifelong zen practitioner. An iconic quote, “If you see anyone trying to narrow the definition of neuroqueer and trying to police who gets to use the term, feel free to tell them that I said to stop acting like a fucking cop. Over the course of many years Nick Walker has meticulously documented the origins and semantics of the evolving language that is co-created within autistic culture. I was planning on just dipping in and out of this but ended up reading it from start to finish in a day.For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation. I simply felt that nobody non-autistic, who had ever had any misunderstanding of autism, would be able to get through the book without feeling downtrodden and heavily criticised. The kids smearing feces on the wall of the bathroom at target because they were asked to walk to the bathroom because their caregiver could smell the soiled diaper, or dropping their pants to feel the fabric of the couch against their testicles (I’m citing examples all of my own personal experience).