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Human Biodiversity Conservation: A Consensual Ethical Principle
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Biocertification and Neurodiversity: the Role and Implications of Self-Diagnosis in Autistic Communities
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"Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference" by Olúfémi O. Táíwò
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OSF Preprints | List of potential Monotropism Questionnaire (MQ) Research Topics.
For those who only experience monotropic cognitive style, monotropism is everything. it is woven into every aspect of life. It is who you are, your whole state of being; the way you think, process, respond, perceive sensory input, interact with people and your environment. The Monotropism Questionnaire (MQ), is a self-report tool designed to assess for features indicating monotropic cognitive style. Which is based on an Interest Based Account of Autism, and it has been argued to be a Unified Theory of Autism. Please see here for further information on monotropism theory, research, and practice. The present MQ items are informed by this Monotropism model to explain “Pathological Demand-Avoidance” in autistic persons, there is debate if the anxiety-based items should be removed from the tool, because how autism is often defined in clinical contexts, anxiety is not a core feature of autism, or a universal experience amongst autistics, and generally due to how autistics are being present, or previously situations. We know that autistics are systemically poorly treated by broader society and culture. Causing many autistics to become an Academic, Activist, or Advocate. This list is intended to only be used to guide researchers until research is conducted to indicate Autistics’ preferences on the matter. This document is published under a Creative Commons license, CC-BY-NC-SA, to allow the list to be widely shared. Below is the finalised list of potential research topics, which can be completed by adult participants for the Monotropism Questionnaire (MQ). The development of an observer rated version for use by adults, like caregivers, might best be waited for until refinement of the present MQ. There should be a separate list of potential research topics for investigating Monotropism in children and young persons. The research topics are grouped by category, for ease of reference. The placement of some research topics on the list maybe arbitrary.
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What the modern world has forgotten about children and learning.
What the modern world has forgotten about children and learning.
Many such “scientific” pronouncements have emanated from the educational establishment over the last hundred years or so. The fact that the proven truths of each generation are discovered by the next to be harmful folly never discourages the current crop of experts who are keen to impose their freshly-minted certainties on children. Their tone of cool authority carries a clear message to the rest of us: “We know how children learn. You don’t.”
So they explain it to us.
This is when it occurred to me: people today do not even know what children are actually like. They only know what children are like in schools.
People all over the world know these things about children and learning, and interestingly, they are as workable for learning how to design software or conduct a scientific experiment or write an elegant essay as they are for learning to hunt caribou or identify medicinal plants in a rainforest.
But we don’t know them any more.
Collecting data on human learning based on children’s behavior in school is like collecting data on killer whales based on their behavior at Sea World.
It turns out that Americans are at the far end of the spectrum in their preference for competition over cooperation; for self-promotion over humility; for analytical over holistic thinking; for individual rather than collective success; for direct rather than indirect communication; for hierarchical rather than egalitarian conceptions of status.
When you see children who do not learn well in school, they will often display characteristics that would be valued and admired in any number of non-WEIRD cultures around the world. They are physically energetic; they are independent; they are sociable; they are funny. They like to do things with their hands. They crave real play, play that is exuberant, that tests their strength and skill and daring and endurance; they crave real work, work that is important, that is concrete, that makes a valued contribution. They dislike abstraction; they dislike being sedentary; they dislike authoritarian control. They like to focus on the things that interest them, that spark their curiosity, that drive them to tinker and explore.
He was one of those magnetic, electrical, radiant boys; kind to the younger ones, strong, quick, inquisitive, sharp as a tack, his eyes throwing sparks in the clear air. It was a joy just to watch him, I said to the friend standing beside me. She told me he had just been diagnosed with ADHD.
“Experts” in our WEIRD society tell us these children are learning disabled; they have poor impulse control; they lack organizational skills; they are oppositional. One in twenty, one in ten, one in seven of our precious bright-eyed children, we are told, have some kind of organic brain defect that disables them as learners.
But a Maori parent knows that you have to watch a child patiently, quietly, without interference, to learn whether he has the nature of the warrior or the priest. Our children come to us as seeking beings, Maori teachers tell us, with two rivers running through them — the celestial and the physical, the knowing and the not-yet-knowing. Their struggle is to integrate the two. Our role as adults is to support this process, not to shape it. It is not ours to control.
“The rainbows kind of wilt like flowers.” That’s what my daughter said as she stood at the top of a mountain one rainy, sunny day, watching the colors arcing and dissolving in the air. She was two and a half.
Dyslexic children often have better imaginations than non-dyslexics, after all, but nobody labels the “normal” children as having an “imagination disability.”
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lisa chapman on X: "@autisticrealms @JoPavlopoulou @stimpunks @DrRuthMoyse @DivergentSLT @elly_chapple @AQuinnUnbroken @NDConnectionUK @BeaconHouseTeam @ChrisGPackham @PEDALCam @thepdaspace @AFNCCF @AT_Autism @Spectrum0Gaming @christinebydls @SEDSConnective @AutisticGirls_ @NAITScotland @thinkingautism @Tapestry_FSF @AnnMemmott @EmilioLees @RCSLTLearn @Autistic_Doc @AutisticDoctor @DoctorsAutistic @ElaineMcgreevy An excellent 'penguin pebble', and don't penguins 'rock' 🐧🐧🐧" / X
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