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Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life
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Epistemic injustice refers to harms that relate specifically to our status as epistemic agents, whereby our status as knowers, interpreters, and providers of information, is unduly diminished or stifled in a way that undermines the agent's agency and dignity.The concept was defined by Miranda Fricker (2007), who identifies two key forms of epistemic injustice.The first is testimonial injustice, which refers to cases where testimony is unduly dismissed because of prejudiced beliefs regarding minority groups.Hermeneutical injustice refers to cases where a community's shared vocabularies have been structured in a way that unfairly distorts or stifles understanding for, and of, a minority group.In each case, there is an instance of people being harmed specifically in their capacity as knowers: individuals capable of knowing or providing knowledge.Much work on epistemic injustice has identified the operation of negative stereotypes relating to gender and race; for instance, when someone's testimony is dismissed, doubted, or accorded low credibility due to racist or sexist prejudices on the part of the listener (Dotson, 2011;Fricker, 2007; Kidd et al., 2017;Medina, 2013).But in recent years research has drawn attention to epistemic injustice in healthcare generally, and more specifically within psychiatry, pediatrics, and among people with disabilities (Blease et al., 2016;Carel & Kidd, 2014;Crichton et al., 2016; Kidd & Carel, 2016, 2019;Potter, 2015).What has been revealed is the systematic stifling of the voices and interpretive tools available to both ill and disabled persons: in particular, their information providing, testimonies, and interpretations.These types of epistemic injustice have been associated with the medical deficit model that dominates much of medical and psychiatric discourse (Kidd & Carel, 2018, 2019).Moreover, physically disabled persons' claims that they are happy and living good lives have also been dismissed due to prejudices about the possibility of living well whilst disabled (Blease et al., 2016;
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The paper argues that autistic people face interlocking testimonial and hermeneutical epistemic injustices that make it difficult or impossible to recognize them as both autistic and living a good life. It proposes neurodiversity-informed reforms to conceptions of flourishing and to clinical and everyday epistemic practice.
Key findings
- Autistic testimony about happiness and wellbeing is subject to pathocentric testimonial injustice: credibility is dismissed through stereotypes such as “mindblindness,” limited social understanding, and the assumption that autism and happiness are inherently at odds. The paper cites Dinah Murray’s claim that autism disclosure is “likely to precipitate a negative judgment of capacity involving permanent loss of credibility” and discusses accusations that Naoki Higashida’s articulate voice could not be “genuine.”
- Hermeneutical injustice operates through species-norm conceptions of flourishing: neo-Aristotelian and objective-list views, including Nussbaum, Furman and Tuminello, and Barnbaum, treat autistic cognition as not “truly human” or as at odds with flourishing unless therapy erases defining autistic traits. This excludes neurodivergent modes of flourishing from shared interpretive resources.
- These injustices combine into “autism’s catch-22”: if an autistic person is living a good life, they are denied recognition of their autism; if they are not living a good life, their autism is recognized and their suffering is presumed to be caused by autism. The paper states that “I am autistic and I am flourishing” is not intelligible under this framing.
- The paper proposes four ameliorative approaches: dismantling the medical deficit approach to autism; relativizing value judgments about the good life; cultivating autistic self-understanding and autistic epistemic communities; and fostering neurotypical epistemic humility and cross-cultural communication.
Methods
- Conceptual and philosophical analysis in philosophy of disability and philosophy of medicine; no empirical study, sample, or original quantitative data are reported.
- The argument draws on Miranda Fricker’s testimonial and hermeneutical injustice, the neurodiversity paradigm, social and relational models of disability, and critiques of species-norm accounts of flourishing.
- Evidence used includes cited empirical literature and first-person autistic accounts; the paper’s main analysis is normative and theoretical, culminating in proposed ameliorative strategies.
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- Stated: the paper brackets debates about how far the neurodiversity paradigm applies across the autism spectrum, supposing it applies “to some extent at least”; it does not commit to a single alternative model of disability; and it says its arguments do not automatically apply to other groups.
- Evident: there is no new empirical data, systematic review, or tested intervention; the argument relies on selected cited studies and testimony.
- Evident: the focus is autism, with extension to other neurocognitive disabilities presented as a question for future research rather than a demonstrated conclusion.
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“What has been revealed is the systematic stifling of the voices and interpretive tools available to both ill and disabled persons: in particular, their information providing, testimonies, and interpretations.”
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- Supportedcites Blease et al., 2016 source
The Testimonial injustice section (p. 3) describes how stereotyping of illness or disability can constrain patients’ contributions to consultations. The Hermeneutical injustice section (p. 4) describes exclusion from shared interpretive resources, and the Evidence from patients section (p. 7) explains how patients’ testimony and interpretations can be minimised or disregarded. (LLM, conf=0.87)
- Partly supportedcites Carel & Kidd, 2014 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Section 1, “Testimonial and hermeneutical injustice” (page unavailable), describes how ill people’s testimony and interpretations can be ignored, downgraded, or treated merely as information. Section 2 gives an example involving a disabled person, but the paper does not establish systematic stifling across disabled people as a group; its broader analysis focuses on ill people. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“Moreover, physically disabled persons' claims that they are happy and living good lives have also been dismissed due to prejudices about the possibility of living well whilst disabled (Blease et al., 2016;”
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- Partly supportedcites Blease et al., 2016 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Testimonial injustice section (p. 3) says that negative stereotyping of an illness or disability can constrain a patient's contribution to consultations. The Summary (p. 7) reports that stereotypes can lead to patients with CFS/ME having their testimony discounted. Neither passage addresses physically disabled people’s claims that they are happy or living good lives, or prejudice about whether living well with a disability is possible. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“as well as the widespread assumption noted by researchers (e.g., Bovell, 2015, p. 265;Verhoeff, 2012, p. 429) that autism causes autistic distress to the extent that autistic individuals are inherently disposed to lower wellbeing when compared to a neurotypical norm.”
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“This is reflected in the DSM-5, where the notion of”
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- Supportedcites Aftab & Rashed, 2020 source
The Dysfunction section (p. 5) says DSM does not formally define dysfunction. The Etiological View of Dysfunction section (p. 6) says DSM criteria often infer dysfunction from folk intuitions and normative comparisons, while the validity of that inference remains to be demonstrated. Together, these support the paraphrase that DSM-5’s notion of dysfunction rests more on value judgments than established scientific findings. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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“For instance, Milton and Sims found that a key reason autistic people attributed to hindering their wellbeing was barriers to belonging, rather than simply their being autistic (Milton & Sims, 2016).”
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- Supportedcites Milton & Sims, 2016 source
The Discussion of key points (pp. 19–20) identifies barriers to wellbeing and belonging and says that treating autistic people's challenges purely as deficits is limited and potentially counterproductive. The Conclusion (pp. 21–22) calls for less focus on remediation and more on reducing social isolation, supporting the paraphrase's contrast with autism itself as the cause. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“Their point is that dominant conceptions of the good life, including of flourishing, typically rely on species-typical intuitions regarding what is good or desirable, and so encounter a methodological issue when tasked with accounting for neurodivergent modes of flourishing that may be grounded in atypical intuitions.”
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“Indeed, even significant illness and disability, such as cancer, renal failure, and paralysis, have been shown to have a surprisingly small intrinsic effect on levels of wellbeing as such.”
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“People experiencing a wide range of illnesses and disabilities often report paradoxically high levels of [quality of life] and mood”
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“and moreover that autistic empathic understanding does arise between autistics (Chapman, 2019b;Milton, 2012).”
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“a body of evidence has been accumulating which shows that neurotypicals equally struggle to understand autistics”
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“Relatedly, autism is associated with poor mental health.For instance, many autistic persons experience clinical levels of anxiety and depression (Stewart et al., 2006), and suicide rates are strikingly high (Hirvikoski et al., 2016).”
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The citation to Hirvikoski et al. is attached to the statement about suicide rates, not the separately cited statement about anxiety and depression. The section “Specific causes of death in low-functioning v. high-functioning ASD” reports increased suicide risk in both ASD groups compared with controls; the Clinical implications section describes a high risk for suicide in the high-functioning group. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“Part of this will surely come from recognizing and supporting the emergence of autistic epistemic communities, whereby autistics have been coming together to develop vocabularies, shared practices, and social norms that reflect autistic needs and preferences (Chapman, 2019b;Sinclair, 2010).”
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In the Introduction (no page provided), Sinclair describes autistic people forming communities and developing social rules, customs, and ways of accommodating autistic needs. This supports the claim about shared practices and norms, but our copy does not establish that these communities developed shared vocabularies. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“This distinction clearly separates the harmful pathologization that is inherent to the medical deficit approach and social stigma and prejudice toward autistics from the medicalization which enables individuals to receive a diagnosis and treatment, if they so wish.”
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“Brickman et al. report that paralyzed accident victims are only somewhat less happy than lottery winners (1978).”
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“in general the results from comparative studies are meager and do not support the assumption that cancer or cancer treatment lead to a significantly lower quality of life”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites de Haes and van Knippenberg, 1985 source
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“A study compared a group of hemodialysis patients with healthy controls and found that both groups overestimated the impact of hemodialysis on wellbeing.In fact, both groups reported a similar level of wellbeing (Riis et al., 2005, p. 6).”
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“On the medical model, impairment is the primary cause of disability and also the harm that is taken to stem from it.”
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“By contrast, on models used by neurodiversity proponents, at least a significant part of disablement is societally caused (Oliver, 1990) or the product of complex interactions between individual and society (Shakespeare, 2014).”
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“These stereotypes overlook the large diversity within autism and therefore may attribute credibility deficits to autistic individuals who in fact do not have these putative traits.”
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“It may also-despite there being good reason to think that autistic thriving is viable-block our ability to conceive of a good autistic life, as well as to recognize the testimonies of happy autistics as such.”
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“This is practically important since it does not just deny recognition to happy autistics-it also means that the actual chances of autistic flourishing are severely diminished, much as any destination will be harder to find if it has not been included on the map.”
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“Neurodiversity proponents (Chapman, 2019a;Walker, 2012) have suggested the neurodiversity paradigm as an alternative to the dominant medicalized framing of psychiatric and cognitive disabilities.”
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- Not matchedcites Chapman, 2019a
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“This recasts autism as a minority neurocognitive type that is primarily disabled and devalued under current social conditions, instead of it being a medical pathology (Chapman, 2019a;Singer, 1999).”
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- Not matchedcites Chapman, 2019a
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“Varieties of this framing, which has been argued for in detail in the existing literature (see, e.g., Chapman, 2019bChapman, , 2020;;Robertson, 2010), allows us to see such divergences as”
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“This follows a typical set of stereotypes widely held about disabled persons, whereby disability is assumed to be incompatible with living good or happy lives (Barnes, 2016).”
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“Although this theory has been shown to be untenable (Chapman, 2019b) and rooted in prejudice (Yergeau & Huebner, 2017), it is still systematically used to dismiss the validity of autistic voices (Yergeau, 2018).”
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- Not matchedcites Chapman, 2019b
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“On the medical deficit view autism is also widely taken to be at odds (to varying extents depending on the specifics of the diagnosis) with living a good human life.”
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“As we discuss below, autism is widely taken to be at odds-to varying extents-with both wellbeing and flourishing, and hence incompatible with both objective and subjective conceptions of the good life.”
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“On what we call the medical deficit view, autism is classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder, indicating that it is a harmful developmental trajectory that stems from underlying neurological dysfunction.”
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“On the face of it, this may seem supported by the empirical literature, in which autism is associated with poor outcomes (Howlin, 2000) and low wellbeing (Renty & Roeyers, 2006).”
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“This relates specifically to the stereotype that autism and happiness are inherently at odds.”
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“This can be broadly characterized as pathocentric testimonial injustice (Kidd & Carel, 2018) that operates broadly and pervasively, in tandem with the relevant tracker prejudices.”
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“our argument will serve the further purpose of showing that neurodiversity also challenges us to radically broaden our conceptions of the good human life.”
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“On the medicalized framing, there's a relatively restricted species-standard norm in terms of mental functioning (Boorse, 1975): if an individual falls outside of this norm and is also distressed or disabled to a”
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“While this will mean that autistic voices are more likely to be dismissed when they offer a variety of kinds of testimonies, here we want to focus on testimonies about autistic wellbeing or happiness.”
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“Underlying these empirical findings, moral philosophers have often taken autism to be inherently at odds with living a good life (Barnbaum, 2008;Furman & Tuminello, 2015).”
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“These reframe neurodivergent disablement and distress as, at least in significant part, the product of social exclusion, marginalization, and oppression.”
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“By contrast, the neurodiversity paradigm takes neuro-cognitive diversity itself to be the norm and posits such diversity as desirable and valuable for humanity (or any human group) as such (Chapman, 2021;Singer, 1999).”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 2 | THE CHALLENGE FROM NEURODIVERSITY
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“Neurodiversity proponents aim to de-pathologize autism and instead politicize neurodivergent disablement and distress, and in doing so mount a challenge to the notion that at least some forms of neurodivergence are inherently harmful and dysfunctional.”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 2 | THE CHALLENGE FROM NEURODIVERSITY
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“This coheres with the neo-Aristotelian notion that what is good for us will depend on what we are like, but also acknowledges that autistic people are different from non-autistic people-and hence that autistic thriving will not look like non-autistic thriving even if both are members of the same species.”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 4 | AUTISTIC FLOURISHING AND HERMENEUTICAL INJUSTICE
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“On the latter interpretation, if that person is happy and articulating clearly their happiness, then the eloquence and rich use of language and their happiness mean that that speaker is not “really autistic.””
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 5 | AUTISM'S CATCH-22
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“For although it is true that wellbeing is currently low among the autistic population, evidence points toward this being a result of stigma and societal disablement rather than inherent to being autistic.”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 3 | AUTISTIC HAPPINESS AND TESTIMONIAL INJUSTICE
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“Thus it not only prevents the expression of wellness but also impacts upon that wellness itself.”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 4 | AUTISTIC FLOURISHING AND HERMENEUTICAL INJUSTICE
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“Our aim here has been to identify and clarify how this catch-22 bifurcation emerges from interlocking biases that go all the way from everyday assumptions, through psychiatric theory and practice, reaching into ancient conceptions of the good human life.”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 6 | IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR AMELIORATION
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“Interlocking epistemic injustices mean that autistic accounts are taken to mean either that the person is not happy or that they are not autistic.”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 5 | AUTISM'S CATCH-22
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“On the former interpretation, “I am autistic and I am flourishing” is not intelligible; it is not possible to be both.”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 5 | AUTISM'S CATCH-22
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“Importantly, both components of this dynamic are reflected not just in everyday responses to autism; they are also embedded in clinical practice.”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 5 | AUTISM'S CATCH-22
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“More specifically, it constructs autism so that the very concept is at odds with thriving: you can only be recognized as autistic if your life is not going well.”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 5 | AUTISM'S CATCH-22
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“In saying this, we do not mean to deny that some manifestations of autism can make life inherently harder in important respects; only that life being hard is not the same as it is at odds with happiness as such (Booth, 2016, Chapman, 2020;Carel, 2016).”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 3 | AUTISTIC HAPPINESS AND TESTIMONIAL INJUSTICE
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“If the neurodiversity perspective is seriously entertained or is convincing to an extent, then, given the diversity of preferences that comes with a neurologically diverse species, we should expect there to be a plurality of ways of flourishing within the human species, many of which diverge from species-standard thriving, and some of which may be rendered invisible due to overly restricted concep”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 4 | AUTISTIC FLOURISHING AND HERMENEUTICAL INJUSTICE
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- Rests on an assumption: There are many different, yet equally legitimate, ways of functioning within humanity.
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In the paper
“We've suggested that autistic individuals encounter testimonial injustice, when they claim to be happy or living good lives, and hermeneutical injustice, seen in the exclusion of neurodivergent modes of flourishing.”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 5 | AUTISM'S CATCH-22
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“This allows us to understand virtues as shared but importantly relative to the individual rather than the species.”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 6 | IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR AMELIORATION
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Carel, 2017 source
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“On the other hand, if they are autistic and not happy or flourishing, then not only is the autism recognized, but the suffering is automatically taken to stem from the autism.”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 5 | AUTISM'S CATCH-22
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“This time, however, the issue arises from a hermeneutical lacuna, not testimonial injustice, for it stops us from being able to envision minority modes of flourishing, despite, as we have seen, there being reason to think that such modes of flourishing exist.”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 4 | AUTISTIC FLOURISHING AND HERMENEUTICAL INJUSTICE
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“the development of new post-medicalized vocabularies will be necessary for further articulating an accurate and nuanced understanding of autistic forms of flourishing.”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 6 | IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR AMELIORATION
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“Merriam (2009) has proposed turning away from Aristotle and toward stoic philosophy, to shift the focus onto how well individuals do give their specific limitations instead of measuring them against the species-standard norm.”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 6 | IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR AMELIORATION
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Merriam, 2009 source
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“Given this, it is also feasible that similar dynamics may also emerge for other neuro-cognitive disabilities.”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 6 | IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR AMELIORATION
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“our analysis does give good reason to ask whether similar dynamics are also at play in other cases.”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 6 | IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR AMELIORATION
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“Carel (2012) developed a phenomenological toolkit meant for use in a healthcare context, to support patients to cultivate new existential relationships to and understandings of their condition, which are bracketed off from purely medical meanings.”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 6 | IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR AMELIORATION
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Carel, 2012 source
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“For Baron-Cohen, the issue is one of autism “causing [them] to suffer” (2008, p. 11).”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 5 | AUTISM'S CATCH-22
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Baron-Cohen, 2008 source
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“Milton (2014b) draws on phenomenology to critique the normalization of autistic “dispositional diversity.””
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 6 | IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR AMELIORATION
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- Not matchedcites Milton, 2014b
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“For other neuro-cognitive disabilities are also routinely framed via the species-norm.”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 6 | IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR AMELIORATION
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“Updating our theories of the good life to reflect the neurodiversity paradigm may therefore be as important as neurodiversity proponents take updating models of disability is, in light of such a paradigm shift.”
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“the concept itself is not supposed to be autism-specific”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 6 | IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR AMELIORATION
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Armstrong, 2010
- Not matchedcites Chapman, 2019a
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“If autistic distress is extraneous and the result of social conditions under which autistic persons live, it may be that instead of adapting to their condition, autistic persons need to adapt to the barriers, prejudices, and stigma they face throughout their lives as “tracker obstacles,” that track them in education, health, employment, housing, and so on.”
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“Pantazakos (2019) develops the concept of the autistic “life-world” as expressing a different structure to the neurotypical life-world in order to critique medicalized, behavioral understandings”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 6 | IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR AMELIORATION
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Pantazakos, 2019 source
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“Disabled people also face similar forms of discrimination and epistemic injustice.”
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“Anita Ho (2011) uses the term “catch 22” to describe a different situation, in which disabled people put themselves at risk if they do not trust their physician, but equally so if they do, since physicians can be epistemically overconfident and hence make harmful decisions.”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 6 | IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR AMELIORATION
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- Not matchedcites Ho, 2011
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“Wardrope's (2015) claim that impaired or ill persons do “acknowledge the utility of medical framings and find a certain instrumental value in the treatments consequently made available, but resist in varying fashions the idea that the biomedical model says all that there is to say about their conditions and identities””
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 6 | IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR AMELIORATION
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- Not matchedcites Wardrope, 2015
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“Carel (2017), who in discussion of the neurodevelopmental disorder fetal alcohol spectrum disorder has stressed the need to relativize our understanding of the virtues in light of individual cognitive limitations.”
§ Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life > 6 | IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR AMELIORATION
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Carel, 2017 source
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“If so, neurodivergent people must adapt to an environment not built for them rather than having to adapt to diminished health.”
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“In closing, we suggest that our analysis may bear significance more widely, beyond the case of autism.”
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“cultivating epistemic humility among the broader neurotypical public would help establish epistemic justice too.”
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The authors state this as an assumption.
The neurodiversity framing can be applied to the autism spectrum to some extent at least.
“For the purposes of this article, we will suppose that the neurodiversity framing can be applied to the autism spectrum to some extent at least, as even critics of the broader application of the neurodiversity framing admit (e.g., Jaarsma & Welin, 2012;Wakefield et al., 2020).”
The paper relies on this without support.
There are many different, yet equally legitimate, ways of functioning within humanity.
“and that there are many different, yet equally legitimate, ways of functioning”
The paper relies on this without support.
Autistic individuals can live good lives and flourish.
“if a person who identifies as autistic and who fulfills the diagnostic criteria is living a good life”
The paper relies on this without support.
Autistic individuals' declarations about their own quality of life should not be overridden by the presumption that autism causes their low quality of life.
“even if they declare otherwise”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Chapman, R., & Carel, H.
- Affiliations
- Sheffield Hallam University (GB)
- University of Bristol (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Chapman, Robert
- Venue
- Journal of Social Philosophy
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2022-03
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 614-631
- ISSN
- 0047-2786 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9833
- OpenAlex
- W4214900417
- Semantic Scholar
- e632ea793a644afc30913a0fa516afad48c48ca9
- Cited by
- 231
- References
- 82
- Citations by year
- 2026: 65 · 2025: 80 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 38 · 2022: 8
- FWCI
- 58.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Social Philosophy (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Explore Bristol Research (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
- SHURA (Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive) (Sheffield Hallam University) (acceptedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Disability Rights and Representation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Keywords
- neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, testimonial injustice, hermeneutical injustice, disability, good human life, epistemic agency
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