OtherAutism : the international journal of research and practice2026

Is neurodiversity a Global Northern White paradigm?

Vishnu Kk Nair, Warda Farah, Mildred Boveda

PMID 39305198

WHAT IT FOUND

This article critiques the academic field of neurodiversity for ignoring Indigenous knowledge and racialized experiences.

It contains no clinical data, patient outcomes, or therapy techniques, so it does not change how you treat patients.

What this paper is

This is a theoretical commentary arguing that neurodiversity scholarship is dominated by Global Northern perspectives and lacks intersectional analysis of race. It reports no patients, no interventions, and no clinical outcomes, so there is nothing here to change your practice on.

Declared interests

The authors received no financial support for this work.

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    Vishnu Kk Nair, Warda Farah, Mildred Boveda Is neurodiversity a Global Northern White paradigm? Autism : the international journal of research and practice. 2026.

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