Neurodiversity is the concept that neurological differences like autism are the result of normal, natural variations in the human brain.
Australian sociologist Judy Singer coined the term neurodiversity in the late 1990s in a paper about the autism spectrum, but the term is now sometimes used to include people with other neurological differences, including dyslexia, Tourette Syndrome and dysgraphia. American writer Harvey Blume popularized the word in a 1998 article for The Atlantic, that said, “Neurodiversity may be every bit as crucial for the human race as biodiversity is for life in general. Who can say what form of wiring will prove best at any given moment? Cybernetics and computer culture, for example, may favor a somewhat autistic cast of mind.”
Neurodiversity recognizes that people with neurological differences often have certain strengths and abilities because they see the world in a different way.
The Neurodiversity Movement is a social justice movement that seeks civil rights, equality, respect and full societal inclusion for the neurodivergent.
