By Elizabeth Goode, Deena Metzger — 1984
Deena Metzger discusses a wide range of topics in this 1984 interview.
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We’ve been taught to refer to people with disabilities using person-first language, but that might be doing more harm than good.
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Anthony Hopkins, Wentworth Miller and others are showing us that autism is more varied than it once seemed to be.
Transgender or gender-fluid people are more likely to be neurodivergent, and vice versa. Here’s what that’s like.
Getting an official diagnosis as an adult is hard – but this year I got to know what being female and neurodivergent means.
The shift toward greater awareness of autism means that people who did not get diagnosed in childhood may pursue diagnosis as adults.
The diagnosis was “a shock, but not a surprise,” he said.
Conceptions of identities are complex. We have a number of identities that manifest themselves in different environments or as composite forms of background experience. So, do neurodiverse conditions like autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and bipolar really comprise a part of a person’s identity?
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