Why neurodiversity challenged purely deficit based models.
Difference is not only a list of impairments.
The neurodiversity movement argued that different minds are part of human variation.
This does not deny disability or need. It challenges the idea that the whole person is a defect.
Awareverse holds both truths: support needs are real, and identity matters.
When looking at identity not deficit, ask: who had power, who was being labelled, and what would have changed if the human being had been seen first?