Psychotherapy had failed us, and was generally falling into disrepute as psychiatry was being eclipsed by neuroscience. By the 90s I had realised there was a hereditary condition affecting the females in my family but didn’t know what. The word “Diversity” began to catch my attention in the 1980s, thanks to environmental science, and anti-racism. What inspired you to start thinking and writing about the concept of ‘neurodiversity’? We recently had the opportunity to meet Judy and hear more about her advocacy work, research and the impact she has had on the Neurodiversity movement. In 2003 she co-founded ASteen, a Sydneywide social club for teenagers and young adults on the spectrum, and was for several years the secretary of the Inner West Autism and Aspergers Parent Support Group. Her research was based on her experiences “in the middle of 3 generations of women somewhere on the ‘Autistic Spectrum’” and on membership of early online Autistic egroups. She is noted for the coinage of the word “Neurodiversity” in a thesis published at the University of Technology, Sydney in 1998. Judy Singer is a sociologist, author and international speaker.
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