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‘We Need More Role Models’: Why Now Is the Time for Neurodiverse Leaders to Speak Out

By Sam Forsdick — 2021

After being diagnosed with autism in her 50s, Charlotte Valeur hopes her new representative body can improve inclusion for other neurodivergent individuals.

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Mental Disorder Within the Neurodiversity Paradigm

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It’s been challenging for me to witness the victim mentality that’s become popular in mainstream narratives. I’m a woman, person of color, and daughter of immigrants. I don’t perceive myself as a victim.

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I put a great deal of emphasis on employment because I see so many very intelligent people with autism and Asperger's syndrome without satisfying jobs. A satisfying profession made life have meaning for me. I am what I do and think instead of what I feel.

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The Greatest Challenge of Raising an Autistic Child as an Autistic Parent? The Ableist World We Live In

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