neuroqueer

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Belonging to, characteristic of, or related to the intersection of neurodivergence and…

   Belonging to, characteristic of, or related to the intersection of neurodivergence and queerness, particularly autism and LGBT identities.

   • Whether discussed in clinical journals or in media accounts, ABA purports to change neural pathways, rewire neuroqueer brains, and ford synapses.
   • My conceptualization of neuroqueer technoscience is also strongly influenced by 3 my own experiences as a multiply neurodivergent queer femme.
2. 2

   The state or quality of being neuroqueer.

   • Neuroqueer is a queer/crip response to normative discussions about gender, sexuality, and disability as pathology.
   • Autistic rhetoric scholar Melanie Yergeau theorizes neuroqueer as a kind of “asocially perverse” motioning.
   • For a primer on the issue of neuroqueer and its roots in multiple discourse fields from queer aversion therapy to antiautistic hate speech, see Yergeau 2018.
3. 3

   One who belongs to the neuroqueer community.

   • In this regard, the potential of a prosthetic, specialized environment is the always-now —any change could result in neuroqueers backsliding into neuroqueerity.
   • For those of us who inhabit the spaces between the cracks, the neuroqueers who wander outside a prescribed notion of “cognitive normalcy,” we know things are not that simple.
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      To make or become neuroqueer.

      • I believe in the potentialities of autistic stories and gestures, of neuroqueering what we've come to understand as language and being.
      • King’s video neuroqueers the dominant popular cultural image of autistic people always having great powers of visual memory by showing a different version of this.
      • Listening to autistic narratives reveals possibilities for neuroqueering interpersonal communication theory.

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