RT Article
T1 Should autists have cultural rights?
JF Human rights review
VO 23
IS 2
SP 205
OP 219
A1 Vries, Bouke de
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1802566422
AB While several scholars have argued that the rise of the internet has allowed an autistic culture to emerge over the past two decades, the question of whether people with autism or, as some members of this group refer to themselves, ‘autists’, are legally entitled to their own cultural rights has not been investigated. This article fills part of this lacuna by considering whether such entitlements exist from the perspective of human rights law. I start by showing that, insofar as (some) autists have their own culture(s), they are likely to be entitled to cultural rights under existing human rights treaties, before arguing that the absence of evidence that their beliefs, values, and behaviors are significantly shaped by distinct social norms renders it unclear whether they do in fact have their own culture(s). However, I end by arguing that, in terms of autists’ entitlements from a human rights perspective, little seems to depend on this.
K1 Disabilities
K1 Right to particulate in culture life
K1 Cultural rights
K1 Multiculturalism
K1 Neurodiversity
K1 Autism
DO 10.1007/s12142-021-00642-0