Steve Silberman
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first heard Jan 2018
last heard Jul 2022
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It's really like, one of the things that I became really sad about in the course of writing the book
was that by the time I started writing NeuroTribes, the parents movement had really sort of crystallized around the anti-vaccine thing, and if you were not anti-vaccine, you were anti-parent, you know, I would read a lot in online forums and comment threads.
But that was not how the parent movement started.
The parent movement was originally very motivated to change the world
So that their kids would have a better life in the future and the kids like theirs would have a better life in the future.
Right.
I sort of feel like one virtue of I mean, this is a whole other subject, but one virtue of the neurodiversity movement, which we can explain and talk about in a minute, but is that it's moved parents more.
towards the original mission of the parents movement in autism, which was to change the world so that it was a better place for the kids.
Yeah, sure.
And those boxes, you know, you mentioned that
Asher got, you know, multiple diagnoses and that the diagnoses perhaps even changed over time or whatever.
It's like all these all these diagnostic boxes.
I feel like they're just these very narrow and sort of contingent lenses through which we're looking at a living thing, which is the diversity of human minds.
And that's just a biological fact.
People say to me, well, do you support neurodiversity?
It exists whether I support it or not.
I no longer think of neurodiversity as like a political stance or even a movement.
I think of it as a living fact, like biodiversity.
And we can pathologize it endlessly and say that all these variations are diseases or syndromes or whatever, which was the approach for most of the 20th century.
Or we can celebrate that diversity as a gift to our society that requires us to be responsible and to provide people with whatever they need to achieve success in whatever form their success would be.
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