Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline
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Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Gaining Community -- 1. Historicizing Jim Sinclair's "Don't Mourn for Us": A Cultural and Intellectual History of Neurodiversity's Origins -- 2. From Exclusion to Acceptance: Independent Living on the Autistic Spectrum -- 3. Autistic People Against Neuroleptic Abuse -- 4. Autistics.org and Finding our Voices as an Activist Movement -- 5. Losing -- Part II: Getting Heard -- 6. Neurodiversity.com: A Decade of Advocacy -- 7. Autscape -- 8. The Autistic Genocide Clock -- 9. Shifting the System: AASPIRE and the Loom of Science and Activism -- 10. Out of Searching Comes New Vibrance -- 11. Two Winding Parent Paths to Neurodiversity Advocacy -- 12. Lobbying Autism's Diagnostic Revision in the DSM-5 -- 13. Torture in the Name of Treatment: The Mission to Stop the Shocks in the Age of Deinstitutionalization -- 14. Autonomy, the Critical Journal of Interdisciplinary Autism Studies -- 15. My Time with Autism Speaks -- 16. Covering the Politics of Neurodiversity: And Myself -- 17. "A Dream Deferred" No Longer: Backstory of the First Autism and Race Anthology -- Part III: Entering the Establishment? -- 18. Changing Paradigms: The Emergence of the Autism/Neurodiversity Manifesto -- 19. From Protest to Taskforce -- Part IV -- 20. Critiques of the Neurodiversity Movement -- 21. Conclusion