neurotypicity

— The Australian sociologist Judy Singer used the word neurodiversity for the first time at the end of the 1990s. A new social identity began to have a voice. Such a voice claims that neurodiversity is part of what is called biodiversity. Many autistic people are involved in this attempt to explain neurodiversity and they claim that neurodiversity is an interesting phenomenon even for neurotypical people. For example, some neurodiverse people might have telepathic abilities that can be misunderstood, by neurotypical people, as a deficit […]. In its more radical stance, the neurodiversity movement has compiled a set of criteria for diagnosing neurotypicity as a disease of the so-called “normal people” in Western society.