How typical is typical?

Join us for our next Mind, History and Society seminar, presented by writer, historian and advocate Brandy Schillace. The seminar will take place in the CHSTM Seminar Room, 2.57 Simon Building.

How typical is typical?

We talk about the autism spectrum, but “neurotypical” is often treated as though it exists outside, such that we still end up with binary thinking: ND vs NT. My current research asks what do we mean by “neurotypical”? Is this a social term about conforming to standards? Is it a scientific term about the way brains work? Where are the “edges” of “typical”? As we watch a new panic unfolding in the USA around autism, a resurgence of “cure” narratives, and attacks on disabled autonomy, it is more important than ever to see there is more that unites us than divides us, a blurring of the line between divergent and typical, without erasing diagnostic difference or support through accessibility, for the flourishing of every kind of mind.

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