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      Neurodiversity

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          The neurodiversity movement emerged as an extension of the disability rights movement to include the those individuals with neurological differences. Micki McGee posits that neurodiversity is also a response to the neoliberalism of the past three decades that has (1) shifted responsibility for individuals with neurological and cognitive challenges back to the family, and (2) fostered a crippling speed-up in our workplaces while simultaneously requiring new levels of sociability and flexibility that render more people debilitated or disabled. The article concludes that demands for the rights of neurologically diverse populations may challenge the very framework of liberal personhood.

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          SAGE Publications
          1536-5042
          1537-6052
          August 2012
          August 21 2012
          August 2012
          : 11
          : 3
          : 12-13
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          [1 ]Micki McGee is in the sociology and anthropology department at Fordham University. She is the author of Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life.
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          10.1177/1536504212456175
          67e189b0-d922-4d69-982c-e7195c0e74e8
          © 2012

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