NeuroDiversity by Judy Singer7/1/2023 ![]() At the same time it offered a critique of what Singer perceived to be a certain tendency towards social-constructionist fundamentalism within the disability movement, which, she argued, limited the potential of the new paradigm. ![]() ![]() Its chapters encompassed a brief history of autism, self-exploration of Singer’s life in the middle of three generations of women “somewhere on the autistic spectrum” and her research as a participant-observer on InLv, an online community of people on the spectrum. The work attempted a panoramic view of this new terrain from within a post-modern, social constructionist, feminist, disability rights perspective. And in the process, prefigured a new paradigm within the disability rights movement of the time. The word itself was just one of many ideas in this work, her 1998 Honours thesis, a pioneering sociological work that mapped out the emergence of a new category of disability that, till then, had no name. ![]() Judy Singer is generally credited with the coinage of the word that became the banner for the last great social movement to emerge from the 20th century. ![]()
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