Hello! I've written an essay about neurodiversity and translated it from Russian into English (was driven by that fact that SJW-style neurodiversity came into my country). I hope you will enjoy it
Rather recently neurodiversity movement came to Russia. It considers autism not as a disorder but as a part of a personality that deserves acceptance and respect. Although it has a lot of positive aspects such as propaganda of self-acceptance, rejection of a norm cult, struggle against discrimination of autistic people it turned out that in its modern form it contains a lot of ideas that make it incompatible with rational understanding of an essence of autism and development of medicine and biotechnologies for management of genetics of offsprings. In a lot of aspects ethics of this movement is similar to Christians and so-called bioconservators. But is it possible to imagine neurodiversity movement that is compatible with the technologies mentioned above, ideas of transhumanism and utilitarian ethics? An author of the article thinks that such possibility exists.
http://dig386.livejournal.com/1305.html
P.S. An essay is actually pro-neurodiverse and against the cult of norm but uses ethical values unusual for orthodox neurodiversity.
P.P.S. The translation was made by a non-native English speaker, so some minor language issues are possible.
13 Jul 2016, 9:42 am
