![]() ![]() This idea has the advantage of making us observe the qualities and characteristics of other people without judging them as right or wrong. In this way, when outside the clinical setting we move away from a purely medical-rehabilitative model, stimulating an interaction in which these differences are not necessarily perceived as deficits. ![]() The concept of neurodiversity allows us to look at various neurological, sensory, communicative, and social characteristics as natural differences in human development. In these terms, we see how the current clinical definition of autism is slowly approaching the paradigm of neurodiversity, that is, the idea that differences in the organization of our nervous system are a common aspect of the entire population. When a certain number of these characteristics are concentrated in one person, and with such intensity as to negatively affect their life, then specialists may reach a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. The idea behind this change is that autism cannot be forced into defined boundaries, but that its characteristics (defined as “symptoms” in medical language) are distributed to varying degrees throughout the population, even among neurotypicals. Since 2013, with the release of the fifth edition of the DSM (the diagnostic-statistical manual of the American Psychiatric Association, APA), autism and Asperger’s syndrome have been united under a single definition of autism spectrum. ![]()
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