![]() ![]() ![]() Towards the end of the book, he makes a convincing argument for acceptance. One reason that Neurotribes is an excellent book is that the author walks his readers through the history of autism, patiently explaining the often-overlooked mishaps and human errors that have led us to view autism as a disease for the last hundred years. If you’d like to learn a little more about what neurodiversity means in the context of autism and ADHD, I’d recommend this article from Psychology today ( 1). As Silberman touches on throughout his book, the implication that autism needn’t be cured, rather accepted, is offensive to many people. In this way, neurodiversity can be a very controversial topic, because by treated autism and ADHD as natural differences between people, it is implied that they don’t need to be cured. This concept is often applied to autism and ADHD, which is fundamentally different than the way they are commonly thought of, as a disease. It stands for the idea that there is a large amount of variation in individual brain function and behavioral traits in the human population, and that this variation is both normal and natural. What is “neurodiversity,” you may ask? Neurodiversity is more than just a word, it’s a paradigm. ![]() In a nutshell, Neurotribes is about the “Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity” (as stated on the cover of the book). Neurotribes, by Steve Silberman, may be one of the most controversial books of the decade. ![]()
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