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Nick Walker
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Nick Walker writes NEUROQUEER • THE WRITINGS OF DR. NICK WALKER, a personal blog at neuroqueer.com about health and philosophy. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link neuroqueer.com for its neurodiversity framing: autism is not simply a set of tradeoffs to be managed or removed, and for definitions of neurodivergent-related terms.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
NEUROQUEER • THE WRITINGS OF DR. NICK WALKER
Most-linked posts?
- /throw-away-the-masters-tools/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-06-06
What Hacker News says?
For those who's instinctive approach to autism (or other flavors of significant neruodivergence) is to treat it as something that has inherent tradeoffs, or as something that "obviously" people would want to manage or choose to not have when given the option: I highly recommend this article [1] and the book written by the same author, to recontextualize autism (in specific) and neurodiversity (in general) not as thi…
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on “Brain overgrowth dictates autism severity, new research suggests”Submitted Neuroqueer: An Introduction as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Neurodivergence is an internet-nurtured buzzword No, it's a well-defined term from an expert in the space and a member of the community [1], coined to describe an underserved group of people who didn't have existing terminology to describe themselves [2]. Reducing it to a "buzzword" to describe people who have "mental disorders" or "conditions" is a gross misunderstanding of both the term, the people it describes,…
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on “Community Is Motivation on Tap”> "What if I'm the normal one and the rest of society is wrong" You do realise they’re not saying that in earnest, right? The point is to demonstrate the absurdity of it. > But eventually you have to reconcile yourself to the reality of autism: it really is a neuro-developmental disorder and you actually do have deficits in social understanding, which you might be able to improve with deliberate effort. The reality…
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on “Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical”Neurodivergent is absolutely not a synonym for autistic. https://sherlocksflataffect.tumblr.com/post/121295972384/psa... https://neuroqueer.com/neurodiversity-terms-and-definitions/
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on “Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical”Do you have a name? I find this framing useful: https://neuroqueer.com/neuroqueer-an-introduction/
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on “Ask HN: How do I know that I am authistic?”