Foreword.- Introduction.- Part I: Gaining Community.- 1. Historicizing Jim Sinclair’s “Don’t Mourn for Us”: A Cultural and Intellectual History of Neurodiversity’s Origins.- 2. From Exclusion to Acceptance: Independent Living on the Autistic Spectrum.- 3. Autistic People Against Neuroleptic Abuse.- 4. Autistics.org and Finding our Voices as an Activist Movement.- 5. Losing.- Part II: Getting Heard.- 6. Neurodiversity.com: A Decade of Advocacy.- 7. Autscape.- 8. The Autistic Genocide Clock.- 9. Shifting the System: AASPIRE and the Loom of Science and Activism.- 10. Out of Searching Comes New Vibrance.- 11. Two Winding Parent Paths to Neurodiversity Advocacy.- 12. Lobbying Autism’s Diagnostic Revision in the DSM-5.- 13. Torture in the Name of Treatment: The Mission to Stop the Shocks in the Age of Deinstitutionalization.- 14. Autonomy, the Critical Journal of Interdisciplinary Autism Studies.- 15. My Time with Autism Speaks.- 16. Covering the Politics of Neurodiversity: And Myself.-17. “A Dream Deferred” No Longer: Backstory of the First Autism and Race Anthology.- Part III: Entering the Establishment?.- 18. Changing Paradigms: The Emergence of the Autism/Neurodiversity Manifesto.- 19. From Protest to Taskforce.- Part IV.- 20. Critiques of the Neurodiversity Movement.- 21. Conclusion.
Steven K. Kapp is a Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Exeter, UK, working on the Wellcome Trust-funded project Exploring Diagnosis: Autism and Neurodiversity. With backgrounds in public policy, education, psychology, and disability studies, he researches the lived experiences, support needs, and quality of life of autistic people.
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