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in this collection of essays, the author writes openly about her experience as a mother of a now 21 year old son with severe autism. The author's human emotion drives through each page and challenges commonly held ideas that define autism either as a disease or as neurodiversity. The book is inspired by the author's own questions: What is the place of intellectually and developmentally disabled people in society? What responsibilities do we, as citizens and human beings, have to one another? Who should decide for those who cannot decide for themselves? What is the meaning of religion to someone with no abstract language? Exploring these questions, the book examines social issues such as inclusion, religion, therapeutics, and friendship through the lens of severe autism.

Parents of autistic children. --- Autistic people --- Autism --- Autistic disorder --- Autism spectrum disorders --- Hyperlexia --- Developmentally disabled --- Autistic children --- Family relationships. --- Social aspects. --- Patients --- autism, intellectual disability, developmental disability, inclusion, medical marijuana, Judaism, ABA.

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Developmental Disabilities. --- Development Disorders, Child --- Child Development Deviations --- Child Development Disorders --- Child Development Disorders, Specific --- Developmental Delay Disorders --- Disabilities, Developmental --- Child Development Deviation --- Child Development Disorder --- Development Deviation, Child --- Development Deviations, Child --- Development Disorder, Child --- Developmental Delay Disorder --- Developmental Disability --- Deviation, Child Development --- Disability, Developmental --- Developmental Disabilities

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How youth on the autism spectrum negotiate the contested meanings of neurodiversityAutism is a deeply contested condition. To some, it is a devastating invader, harming children and isolating them. To others, it is an asset and a distinctive aspect of an individual's identity. How do young people on the spectrum make sense of this conflict, in the context of their own developing identity? While most of the research on Asperger's and related autism conditions has been conducted with individuals or in settings in which people on the spectrum are in the minority, this book draws on two years of ethnographic work in communities that bring people with Asperger's and related conditions together. It can thus begin to explore a form of autistic culture, through attending to how those on the spectrum make sense of their conditions through shared social practices.Elizabeth Fein brings her many years of experience in both clinical psychology and psychological anthropology to analyze the connection between neuropsychological difference and culture. She argues that current medical models, which espouse a limited definition, are ill equipped to deal with the challenges of discussing autism-related conditions. Consequently, youths on the autism spectrum reach beyond medicine for their stories of difference and disorder, drawing instead on shared mythologies from popular culture and speculative fiction to conceptualize their experience of changing personhood. In moving and persuasive prose, Living on the Spectrum illustrates that young people use these stories to pioneer more inclusive understandings of what makes us who we are.

Youth. --- Speculative fiction. --- Special education. --- Social skills. --- Social capital. --- School-based ethnography. --- Neurostructural. --- Neuroscience. --- Neurodiversity. --- Neurodevelopmental. --- Neurodevelopmental turn. --- Neurochemical. --- Neural plasticity. --- Looping effects. --- Live-action roleplaying games. --- Late modernity. --- LARP. --- Institutional individualization. --- Individualism. --- Identity. --- Fantasy. --- Ethnography. --- Divided medicalization. --- Developmental disability. --- Connectome. --- Clinical ethnography. --- Cerebral subjectification. --- Brainhood. --- Autism. --- Affinity group;Aspergers. --- Affinity group. --- Aspergers. --- Identity (Philosophical concept).

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Developmental Disabilities. --- Developmental Disabilities --- Child. --- Mass Screening. --- Denver Developmental Screening Test --- Child development --- Screening --- Mass Screenings --- Screening, Mass --- Screenings --- Screenings, Mass --- Children --- Minors --- Development Disorders, Child --- Child Development Deviations --- Child Development Disorders --- Child Development Disorders, Specific --- Developmental Delay Disorders --- Disabilities, Developmental --- Child Development Deviation --- Child Development Disorder --- Development Deviation, Child --- Development Deviations, Child --- Development Disorder, Child --- Developmental Delay Disorder --- Developmental Disability --- Deviation, Child Development --- Disability, Developmental --- diagnosis. --- Testing --- Child --- Mass Screening --- diagnosis

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Infant. --- Child. --- Central Nervous System Diseases. --- Child Behavior Disorders. --- Developmental Disabilities. --- Development Disorders, Child --- Child Development Deviations --- Child Development Disorders --- Child Development Disorders, Specific --- Developmental Delay Disorders --- Disabilities, Developmental --- Child Development Deviation --- Child Development Disorder --- Development Deviation, Child --- Development Deviations, Child --- Development Disorder, Child --- Developmental Delay Disorder --- Developmental Disability --- Deviation, Child Development --- Disability, Developmental --- Behavior Disorders, Child --- Disorders, Child Behavior --- CNS Diseases --- Central Nervous System Disorders --- CNS Disease --- Children --- Minors --- Infants --- Childhood Behavior Disorders --- Behavior Disorder, Child --- Behavior Disorder, Childhood --- Child Behavior Disorder --- Childhood Behavior Disorder --- Disorder, Childhood Behavior --- Central Nervous System Disease --- Central Nervous System Disorder --- Infant --- Child --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Child Behavior Disorders --- Developmental Disabilities