Image is a blue swirly background with three cartoon narwhals. A pink smiling narwhal is on the bottom left and a green flappy narwhal and a blue smiling narwhal are on the right. Text reads:
The Neurodivergent Narwhals ™ Present:
Neurodiversity 101
Neurodiversitylibrary.org
A purple smiling cartoon narwhal is on the bottom left of a blue swirly background framing a white text box area. There are four lines of images. The top is a row of different kinds of trees, the second line is a row of different kinds of animals, the third line is a row of various types of people and the last is are cartoon brains in rainbow colors. Text reads:
“Diversity is natural.
Neurodiversity* is natural
Plant diversity
Animal diversity
Human diversity
Brain diversity = neurodiversity
*”neurodiversity” is a word coined by autistic scholar Judith Singer”
A green flappy cartoon narwhal is on the lower right corner of a blue swirly background framing a white text box area. In the center of the image is a row of rainbow colored cartoon brains.
Text reads:
“The existence of neurodiversity is a fact.
Your feelings about the value of neurodiversity are your opinions. *
*opinions that are likely influenced by systemic ableism & surviving in a capitalist society.”
A smiling yellow cartoon narwhal is in the middle left of a swirly blue background framing a white text box area. In the center of the image is a group of various kinds of people.
Text reads:
“These people are neurodiverse.
Neurodiverse is a group of people with different kinds of brains.”
A red smiling cartoon narwhal in the lower right corner with a speech bubble that reads: “Who decides what’s normal anyway?” is on a blue swirly background framing a white text box area.
Text reads:
“A “Neurotypical” person is someone whose brain works in ways that society views as normal.
A “neurodivergent”* person is a person whose brain works in ways that differ from what society views as normal
*”neurodivergent” is a word coined by autistic POC & activist Kassiane Asasumasu.”
A group of rainbow colored cartoon narwhals are under a blue umbrella on a swirly blue background that is framing a white text box area.
Text reads:
“Neurodivergence= Developmental, intellectual, psychiatric & Learning disabilities like autism, anxiety, down syndrome, depression, ADHD*, mood Disorders* & a whole lot more!
The big umbrella of neurodivergence includes more than it excludes!
*No brain is actually disordered!, that’s pathology paradigm talk!”
A flappy green narwhal on the lower right corner of the image has a speech bubble that reads: “It doesn’t matter how much. support or help you need or how you communicate or move….. the neurodiversity paradigm includes ALL OF US!” There is a blue swirly background framing a white text box area.
Text reads:
“The Neurodiversity Paradigm is a way of thinking about neurodiversity.
The neurodiversity paradigm says:
disability & neurodivergence are normal & natural
neurodiversity is good & valuable
there is no one right kind of brain
A pink smiling cartoon narwhal is at the top left of image. There is a speech bubble that reads: “Learn more!” The lower left of image is the library logo and name “Ed Wiley Autism Acceptance Lending Library” in rainbow colored letters.
Text reads:
This is compiled from a wealth of community knowledge including but certainly not limited to some of these great resources:
http://neurocosmopolitanism.com/neurodiversity-some…/
http://neurocosmopolitanism.com/throw-away-the-masters…/
.divergentminds.org/understanding-neurodiversity/
http://thinkingautismguide.com/…/what-neurodiversity…
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/…/clearing-up-some…/
autisticscholar.com/what-is-neurodiversity/
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