Maynard2024

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Maynard2024
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Author(s) Douglas W. Maynard
Title The Human Spectrum: A Critique of “Neurodiversity”
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Tag(s) EMCA, Autism, Neurodiversity, Autistic talk, Ethnomethodology, Conversation analysis, In press
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Year 2024
Language English
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Journal Symbolic Interaction
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DOI 10.1002/symb.691
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This paper represents a sociological approach to autism spectrum disorder that critiques the terms neurodiverse and it obverse, neurotypical, because they promote a cognitive approach that mystifies what is actual and real about human activity in everyday life. It is in dynamic interactional practices rather than putative cognitive states that human diversity is manifest or observable. The empirical part of the paper, following Bleuler, defines and examines “autistic talk” as a turning away from the ordinary social world or commonsense “reality,” and engaging self-oriented practices and orientations. However, the range of participants who produce such talk is not confined to those on the putative autism spectrum. Rather, that range encompasses the entire human span. If so, then a question is raised about what autism is as a “condition,” which term individualizes social difficulties rather than appreciating that they are always about diverse social actions-in-interaction.

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