TIL: Neurodiversity
Jun. 8th, 2019 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timeletsas in,
I guess, the more we learn about human biology at the individual level, the greater number of bio-vs-social conflicts is going to arise. In a world dominated by religion, social and biological constructs used to have almost isomorphic equivalence classes. All of that changed in the 20th century and the clash of logics caused millions of deaths.
Baron-Cohen presents the issue as one of opposing sides: the medical model, which sees autism as a set of symptoms and deficits to be cured or treated, and the neurodiversity model, which he believes ignores any disabling aspects of autism. Unfortunately, this confuses the neurodiversity movement with the social model of disability, and it is an incomplete understanding of the social model at that.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/clearing-up-some-misconceptions-about-neurodiversity/
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-concept-of-neurodiversity-is-dividing-the-autism-community/
I guess, the more we learn about human biology at the individual level, the greater number of bio-vs-social conflicts is going to arise. In a world dominated by religion, social and biological constructs used to have almost isomorphic equivalence classes. All of that changed in the 20th century and the clash of logics caused millions of deaths.
