Facts about Neurodiversity

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   Criticism of neurodiversity argues that the framework can downplay the genuine challenges and support needs experienced by more severely affected individuals.

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   Judy Singer's 1998 honors thesis is widely credited as the academic origin of the term neurodiversity as a social and political concept.

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   Proponents of neurodiversity often advocate for workplace accommodations and inclusive design rather than attempting to normalize or eliminate neurological differences.

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   Neurodiversity as a framework includes conditions such as autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and dyspraxia, treating them as natural cognitive variations rather than disorders to be cured.

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   The concept of neurodiversity was popularized by Australian sociologist Judy Singer in the late 1990s to reframe neurological differences as natural human variation.

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