This was an enjoyable and enlightening read, even though I do agree that the way that neurodiversity is presented in the paper can sometimes come across as a bit narrow (though I do not think that this was the author's intention:
Leif Ekblad wrote:
The results correlated to many disorders defined by psychiatry, and also with several factors in personality tests.
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The neurodiversity concept primarily relates to ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder), ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, and Dyspraxia (Armstrong, 2010; Jaarsma & Welin, 2012; Pollak, 2009). It is proposed that neurodiversity is similar to other personality differences, such as the personality types measured with a Big Five instrument (Costa & McCrae, 1992), that is, similar to persons with transsexuality wanting to be identified by that term instead of gender identity disorder.
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diagnostic status for autism, dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia, bipolar, schizophrenia, Tourette, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), and nonverbal learning disorder (NLD) have been collected.
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Aspie Quiz does not support the idea that neurodiversity is similar to Asperger’s syndrome or the entire autism spectrum. To begin with, it was the intention to produce a test that could predict an Asperger’s syndrome diagnosis, but when the dual-factor nature of the material was discovered, this aim was dropped.
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Thank you for sharing and congratulations on getting published.
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I am not a textbook case of any particular disorder; I am an abstract, poetic portrayal of neurovariance with which much artistic license was taken.
07 Aug 2013, 3:05 pm
