Meanings
- neologismuncountableThe state or quality of being neuroqueer.
Neuroqueerness unsettles deficit discourses of autism and dis/ability, which reduce the storying of varied individual experiences into a single clinical narrative.
2020, Monica C. Kleekamp, “'No! Turn the Pages!': Repositioning Neuroqueer Literacies”, in Journal of Literary Research, volume 52, number 2, page 1152 more examples
For Rekers and Lovaas, the etiologies of childhood gender variance or autism were insignificant, for they believed that modifying social conditions by means of behavioral control would mask any traces of neuroqueerness.
2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, unnumbered pageNeuroqueer(ness) represents an array of relationships between neurology and queerness including being both neurodivergent and queer, actively choosing to embody one’s neurodivergence, or queering ones cognitive processes (Walker, 2015).
2019, Robin Roscigno, “Neuroqueerness as Fugitive Practice: Reading Against the Grain of Applied Behavioral Analysis Scholarship”, in Educational Studies: A Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, volume 55, number 4, page 406Synonyms: neuroqueer
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state or quality of being neuroqueer.
Origin
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