neurodiversity
From The National Autistic Society (UK based charity):
“The neurodiversity paradigm is a set of ideas based on the principles that:
- every person should be valued and respected
- no brain (or mind) is more ‘normal’ than any other
- […]
- neurodiversity is a natural form of human diversity
The shift is away from seeing neurodivergence […] (as a ‘disorder’), to a neutral view of neurodivergence as a difference […]. This approach to autism and neurodivergence is very different to the traditional approach of medical science, known as the ‘medical model’.”