We See Things They’ll Never See

Love, Hope, and Neurodiversity

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Ableism is embedded in our daily lives. Social life, education, work, and, especially, mental health have been organized around rigid ideas of the “ideal” and the “normal” citizen—ideas that always exclude neurodiversity. In this pathbreaking book, Chantelle Jessica Lewis and Jason Arday argue that the neurodiversity movement offers ways to mobilize against not only ableism but also other “isms” including racism and capitalism. By focusing on the prevalence of neurotypical dominance and power—or “neurotypical hegemony”—Lewis and Arday show the ways that neurotypical dominance has often been used to justify and …

Throughout the book, Lewis and Arday use theories of Blackness, feminism, class, and neurodivergence to offer a vision of solidarities across differences. They show that race, class, ethnicity, gender, and nation are just some of the social structures for which the politics of neurodiversity can produce an emancipatory analysis. This is a book about applying social theory in practice, taking seriously how academic research and theory can be used outside of academic spaces. With We See Things They’ll Never See, Lewis and Arday issue a call to action—and a call for understanding, acceptance, and humility.

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Am 16. September 2025 von Princeton University Press veröffentlicht.

ISBN:: 978-0-691-26394-6
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Ben Waber hat We See Things They’ll Never See von Chantelle Jessica Lewis besprochen

A Good But Limited Critical Studies Book That Academics Need to Read

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That Jason Arday, one of the authors of this book, was essentially lynched less than one year after its publication is inescapable context here. The book itself is a fairly standard if slightly meandering critical studies book, with neurodiversity itself almost never directly touched throughout. The sections that are most insightful, perhaps unsurprisingly, are those that do engage with that topic and what it means to be neurodivergent in modern society. That there is a section on suicide risk for neurodivergent people is particularly painful to read. Overall, the fact that an author of a fine but unremarkable book was hounded by racists and the press to a degree far out of proportion with any potential academic wrongs makes it all the more important to engage with this text

Ben Waber

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