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Shadow Epistemology and the Neurodiversity Movement: Towards a Philosophy of Contested Psychiatric Knowledge

2025-12-30

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<p>This paper examines the philosophical foundations and implications of what we term "shadow epistemology" within the neurodiversity movement, understood as parallel knowledge validation systems that emerge when experiential certainty about neurodivergent status diverges from institutional psychiatric recognition. Drawing on critical psychiatry traditions, phenomenological approaches to mental distress, and conte...

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Literature Corpus work: a61ece80-92c9-5b9b-bef1-9a7552a152ad
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/7f64k_v1

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