liveopened Aug 27, 2026
Who is writing the history of neurodiversity, and who is being written about?
Why the question matters
The sources easiest to find are mostly clinical and mostly Global North. If I build a literature review from availability, I will reproduce the exact erasure I am trying to study.
What I currently think
Deliberately weight neurodivergent-authored and minority-authored work, and treat podcasts, essays, and community writing as primary sources rather than as color.
What I am reading & learning
- —Giwa Onaiwu et al. (2017), All the Weight of Our Dreams
- —Autism in Black podcast · Maria Davis-Pierre
- —Grandin (1986); Williams (1992)
Related journal entries
- The movements were never separate — I had just been taught them separately
Brad Lomax, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Donald Galloway did not treat disability rights and racial justice as adjacent causes. My own coursework had.
- The internet did not create neurodivergent community — it removed the barriers
Before InLv and Autistics.org, many neurodivergent people lived in deep isolation and the true population ratio was simply unknown.