Neuroqueer Technoscience

A theoretical framework, developed by Nick Walker and extended in HCI by Barros Pena, Williams and others, that builds on crip technoscience and the neuroqueer paradigm to position neurodivergent people as active agents who remake worlds, technologies, and social relations. Neuroqueer technoscience rejects assimilationist design that asks neurodivergent users to fit normative systems; instead it centres the creative tinkering, workarounds, repurposing, and refusal through which autistic and other neurodivergent people survive and flourish in technologies not built for them. In accessibility research it is used as an alternative to deficit-based framings and argues that design research should treat neurodivergent participants as knowers and makers, not problems to be solved.