Angela Kingdon: The Joy of Autistic Culture, Gebunden

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Autism has been a diagnosis for 80 years, yet autistic people and their culture have always been here. With their data hunger, love of patterns, their monotropic flow state, autistic culture is a powerful, dynamic force as old as humanity.

Autistic people have been pushed to conform, to mask, and to mold themselves into the neurotypical ideal, often at great personal cost. In this book, Dr. Angela Kingdon invites people with autism, their loved ones, and allies to shift from a medical view of autism to a cultural one. By doing so, we can see autistic people as an essential part of the biodiversity necessary to have a thriving society.

Through stories, analysis, and calls to action, autistic people and allies alike will be inspired to embrace a movement, shine a spotlight on the vibrant ways autistic people Neuroshape the world, and articulate a manifesto for joy, advocacy, and collective empowerment. As neurodiversity movements gain momentum worldwide, this love letter to autistic culture offers a radical new way forward.