Beyond Norms: Unleashing Autistic Flourishing

Autistic individuals can thrive and succeed beyond societal norms or normative expectations of neurotypicals.

In their recent article “Autistic Flourishing”, Michelle Garnett and Tony Attwood argue that there can be an autistic model to a flourishing life. Such a model can be directly fed by data from speaking and non-speaking autistic individuals (the latter including, by necessity, secondary data from families/ caregivers), thus giving “voice” to us, autistics. Such a model would also redirect research and intervention — whose status quo is to reduce…