The Tweet That Rocked The Neurodiversity Boat

And the catalyst we didn't know we needed

June 29, 2023

What a couple of weeks it’s been. If you follow online mindbody discourse, you may already be aware of the now deleted transphobic (and racist, ableist, misogynist and classist) tweets by Australian sociologist, Autism advocate and one of the originators of neurodiversity as a concept, Judy Singer.

If you are not familiar with what’s happened, you can check out my LinkedIn posts, which include screenshots of the original tweets, the ‘apology’, the rescinding of the apology and the post that was aimed at social justice bad-ass Hannah Litt, and myself, after we had attempted to call Singer in. Three days ago, an article was published where Singer reiterated her ableist and supremacist views and dismissively asserted that ‘Autism is trendy now’.

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