Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction

Part I. Gaining community

2. Historicizing Jim Sinclair’s “Don’t mourn for us” : a cultural and intellectual history of neurodiversity’s first manifesto

3. From exclusion to acceptance : independent living on the autistic spectrum

4. Autistic people against neuroleptic abuse

5. Autistics.org and finding our voices as an activist movement

6. Losing

Part II. Getting heard

7. Neurodiversity.com : a decade of advocacy

8. Autscape

9. The autistic genocide clock

10. Shifting the system : AASPIRE and the loom of science and activism

11. Out of searching comes new vibrance

12. Two winding parent paths to neurodiversity advocacy

13. Lobbying autism’s diagnostic revision in the DSM-5

14. Torture in the name of treatment : the mission to stop the shocks in the age of deinstitutionalization

15. Autonomy, the critical journal of interdisciplinary autism studies

16. My time with autism speaks

17. Covering the politics of neurodiversity : and myself

18. A dream deferred” no longer : backstory of the first autism and race anthology

Part III. Entering the establishment?

19. Changing paradigms : the emergence of the autism/neurodiversity manifesto

20. From protest to taskforce

21. Critiques of the neurodiversity movement

22. Conclusion