En su propio mundo Una perspectiva de la neurodiversidad desde el concepto fenomenológico de afectividad

This article proposes a phenomenological approach to the study of neurodivergence, on behalf the existential analysis in Being and Time. Reread from the “affective turn”, phenomenology allows us to approach the study of neurodivergences as alternative affective modes of being-in-the-world, in contrast to traditional approaches marked by the ableist model which interpret them in a pathologizing key as a functional deficits, deviations or disorders. This framework allows us to build arguments in favor of the social model of disability and the paradigm of neurodiversity which emerged in the 90s from the community of autistic adults. We consider that this perspective, like phenomenology itself, gives us the possibility to recognize a plurality of affective modes of intersubjectivity and to question the normalizing categories imposed by positivism.