neuroqueer

Belonging to, characteristic of, or related to the intersection of neurodivergence and queerness, particularly autism and LGBT identities.

Whether discussed in clinical journals or in media accounts, ABA purports to change neural pathways, rewire neuroqueer brains, and ford synapses.

Neuroqueer perspectives challenge typical understandings of identity categories through disidentification processes. A neuroqueer project not only questions typical conceptions of gender but also pivots away from normative gender categories altogether.

The state or quality of being neuroqueer.

Neuroqueer is a queer/crip response to normative discussions about gender, sexuality, and disability as pathology.

Autistic rhetoric scholar Melanie Yergeau theorizes neuroqueer as a kind of “asocially perverse” motioning.

One who belongs to the neuroqueer community.

In this regard, the potential of a prosthetic, specialized environment is the always-now —any change could result in neuroqueers backsliding into neuroqueerity.

For those of us who inhabit the spaces between the cracks, the neuroqueers who wander outside a prescribed notion of “cognitive normalcy,” we know things are not that simple.

To make or become neuroqueer.

I believe in the potentialities of autistic stories and gestures, of neuroqueering what we've come to understand as language and being.

King’s video neuroqueers the dominant popular cultural image of autistic people always having great powers of visual memory by showing a different version of this.