https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/01/30/neurodiversity-is-not-the-opposite-of-biomed-or-aba-or-anything-else-like-that/ Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/01/30/neurodiversity-is-not-the-opposite-of-biomed-or-aba-or-anything-else-like-that/#comment-10449 Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:09:00 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=32#comment-10449 As a “biomed” parent who does not view neurodiversity advocates as the enemy, I truly appreciate the operspective you bring to the discussion. from my standpoint, it’s not about advocating a “cure;” it’s about determining — on an individual basis — whether intervention is appropriate and then what form should the intervention take.

]]> https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/01/30/neurodiversity-is-not-the-opposite-of-biomed-or-aba-or-anything-else-like-that/#comment-10448 Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:03:00 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=32#comment-10448 Autism is a lifelong disorder, a lifetime of life-changing difference for all of us. My son will always be autistic and will always help to shape and change the world in ways yet unheard of—-the strange beauty of difference esp. of neurodiverse difference, which is a difference we all are only just coming into consciousness of.

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