Ideas Behind the Movement
Name two Neurodiverse Conditions
What is: ASC, dyslexia, ADHD, dyspraxia, dycalculia, or Tourette's syndrome?
A former U.S. president with emotional and behavioral disorders
Abraham Lincoin
This children's show featured their first autistic character, a young girl named Julia
Seasme Street
Some still believe that these cause Autism
Vaccines
Name one example of stimming
Flapping, fidgeting, leg bounce, chewing, sprinning, and many more
Acknowledge challenges instead of _______
What is deficits
A famous director diagnosed with dyslexia
Steven Spielberg
Name this autistic character who loves movies from the show Community
Abed
What is first person language and how can it be problematic?
"Person with"
It suggests that the person can be separated from autism, which simply isn't true. It is impossible to separate a person from autism
What are functioning labels and why are they problematic?
"high functioning, low functioning"
Implies that a person's worth is dependent on their ability to pass as neurotypical.
Neurodiverse _______ instead of disorder
Condition
Founder of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Howard Garderner
This movie is often cited as having popularized the media stereotype that most autistic people are savants, and is frequently referenced in other media with autistic or autistic coded characters.
Rain Main
True or False: Most Autistic people have low empathy
False
The definition of neuotypical has expanded, but what did it initially refer to?
Someone who is not autistic
Which of the following is a characteristic of most individuals with dyslexia?
(a) They are bottom up thinkers
(b) Make connections among seemingly disparate ideas and concepts
(c) Good analyzers
(d) Extraordinarily detail oriented
Author of "NeuroDiversity: The Birth of an Idea"
Judy Singer
This inexplicably popular show about nerd culture's protagonist is very heavily coded as autistic, drawing frequent criticism from the autistic community
Big bang theory (Bazinga)
The idea that disabled people are childlike or inherently immature, often applied to autistic people, is called what?
Infantalization
What is sensory overload?
An experience of being overwhelmed by sensory input, including but not limited to sounds, smells, tastes, colors, and light levels.
Neurodiversity is a concept that regards individuals with differences in _________ as part of normal variation in the human population.
brain function and behavioral traits
Initiator of the Autism Rights Movement (ARM)
Jim Sinclair
This FOX show about forensic anthropology's protagonist was oringally going to be stated to be autistic, but due to network censoring, this has only been confirmed by the show's creator
Bones
True or False: All autistic people have the same traits and present in exactly the same way
False
Who coined the terms "Neurotypical" and "Neurodivergent"
Kassiane Sibley