Neuroqueer Heresies
Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities

As an autistic adult, I found this book frustrating in a somewhat enjoyable way. The book may have its myriad of faults, but beyond them are some important truths. It irked me how bad the actual writing was at times. Many of the technical or academic sections, defining terms or laying the groundwork......more

This book is a MUST READ!! Lays out extremely digestible definitions of and frameworks for utilizing different terms related to neurodivergence, neurodiversity, and neuroqueer, and the problems with pathologization, as well as provides extremely important input for interacting with and honoring the......more

I usually don’t give stuff like this five stars, and while I don’t agree with everything Dr. Walker says, her deconstruction of language and discussion of pathology paradigms and the use of the term neurodivergent vs neurodiverse was like nothing else I have ever read on this subject! She is consist......more