![]() ![]() Neuroatypicals, and the absurd contraposition between advocacy associations of parents and of persons with disabilities themselves in a renewed parent versus child contrast, and the more general contraposition between health professionals and stakeholders. ![]() ![]() Within the advocacy world there are frequent misunderstandings that often run the risk of turning into conceptual aberrations and into real internal struggles such as the “ thinking by contrast” (Dewey, 1938) Neurotypicals vs. However, not everyone, even within the advocacy movements for people with disabilities, is aware of how this term developed and especially what this term means. In fact, ‘this term, in analogy with biodiversity, considers atypical development as individual variation in development and as the result of a natural pressure of life to replicate itself with small variations in its forms‘ (Orsolini, 2019 p. ![]() But where does this term come from? It is discussed more and more often within the contemporary debate on neurodevelopmental disorders and atypical development, often incorrectly or inconsistently, without, however, really understanding its scope and enormous inclusive power (real and not purely nominal). Within the SIMPL4ALL project, it was deemed necessary to introduce the concept of neurological variability or neurodiversity to structure an education that was truly designed ‘for everyone’. Education for all through the recognition of neurological variability ![]()
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