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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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In 'Chasing the Intact Mind', Amy Lutz traces the history of the 'intact mind' concept, explaining how it influences current disability policy and practice in the United States. Lutz describes how we got to this moment, where the severely autistics are elided out of public discourse and the intensive, disability-specific supports they need defunded or closed altogether. Lutz argues that focusing on the intact mind and marginalizing those with severe disability reproduces historic patterns of discrimination that yoked human worth to intelligence, and that it is only by making space for the impaired mind that we will be able to resolve these ongoing clashes - as well as even larger questions of personhood, dependency, and care.
Autistic people --- Autistic people --- Developmentally disabled --- Developmentally disabled --- Parents of autistic children --- Parents of developmentally disabled children --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Biography. --- Biography --- History and criticism. --- Biography --- History and criticism.
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