From Mad in Argentina: This letter is addressed to allistic people, which in autistic culture are those neurotypical non-autistic people. Neurotypical people are those whose way of thinking, learning and expressing themselves is the neurologically typical, predominant or morally established way of society. Atypical forms are known as neurodivergences.
Autism is a neurodivergent neurotype, that is, a way of knowing the world, expressing ourselves and processing the stimuli that surround us. In autism culture, each of the diagnoses within the so-called āautism spectrum disorderā is considered to be a neurotype. Celebrating autistic pride is celebrating a neurotype, a way of being and being in the world associated with the most absurd prejudices.
Read the full article here and the English translation here.Ā
