![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Essentially, it distinguishes between impairment, the biological differences between people with disabilities and able-bodied people, and disability, which refers to barriers or disadvantages created by society. The social model of disability emerged thanks to the efforts of disability advocates in the United Kingdom – or more specifically, the efforts of advocates with physical disabilities. Thus, Singer views neurodiversity as related to the social model, but distinct from it – and that is my own view as well. Therefore, the thesis argues that “neither social constructivism nor biological determinism” was “adequate” for autistic people. However, Singer also notes that the social model had “cultish, fundamentalist tendencies” that seemed to dismiss insights from medicine and science. Indeed, in Judy Singer’s new introduction to the original thesis (1998/2016) which she used to propose the idea of neurodiversity, she credits the social model with providing the “framework” of the thesis. In that post, my ideas owe some very clear debts not only to others who have thought about the concept of neurodiversity, but also to the thinkers who developed the social model of disability. A while ago, I described my view of what the neurodiversity paradigm means. ![]()
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