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This is an initial attempt to map the complex themes, ideas, and influences of neurodiversity as a movement and body of theory.
It is an ongoing project, and this will not be its final state.
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WAVE 1 — Foundations
Autistic Self-Advocacy, Cultural Formation, Rejection of Pathology
Core Figures
Jim Sinclair
Donna Williams
Jane Meyerding
Judy Singer (popularized term; not sole origin)
Tony Langdon
Martijn Dekker
Early online activist communities (ANI, InLv)
Expanded Foundations
(Language Formalization + Scientific Disruption)
Kassiane Asasumasu (“neurodivergent”; identity language expansion)
Michelle Dawson (early scientific critique of deficit models)
WAVE 2 — Institutional Translation
Participatory Reform, Epistemic Legitimacy, Relational Models
Core Figures
Damian Milton (→ extends into Wave 3)
Steven Kapp
Kristen Gillespie-Lynch
Expanded Institutional / Participatory (NEW)
Christina Nicolaidis (CBPR; AASPIRE)
Elizabeth Pellicano (research priorities; who defines value)
Boundary / Transitional
Patrick Dwyer (straddles Wave 2 → 3)
WAVE 3 — Critical & Structural
Neuroqueer Theory, Structural Critique, Intersectionality, Epistemic Disruption
Core Figures
Remi Yergeau
Robert Chapman
Morenike Giwa Onaiwu
Monique Botha
Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist
Margaret Price
Expanded Critical / Structural (NEW)
Os Keyes (tech, disability, trans/ND critique)
Dan Goodley (critical disability studies; neoliberal critique)
CROSS-CUTTING / MULTI-WAVE FIGURES (Move across waves; not contained by one period)
Ari Ne'eman (policy, advocacy, institutional change)
Nick Walker (Wave 1 → 2 → 3 bridge)
Damian Milton (Wave 2 → 3 epistemic influence)
Patrick Dwyer (Wave 2 ↔ 3 boundary)
Monique Botha (empirical + critical hybrid)
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