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This chapter introduces core topics and essential questions that emerge at the intersection of autistic neurotype and LGBTQIA+ identity. Autistic people have minority gender identity and/or sexual orientation more often than allistic (non-autistic) people, and LGBTQIA+ people have been shown to have higher rates of autistic characteristics than cisgender, heterosexual people. Many autistic people understand their gender identity and/or sexual orientation as uniquely connected to their autistic neurotype. These unique experiences of gender, sexuality, and neurodivergence bring unique needs into music therapy spaces. This chapter fills in the historical context, similarities and differences in allistic and autistic LGBTQIA+ experience, and implications and essential questions for music therapists. In accordance with autistic cultural standards such as ‘nothing about us, without us’, the neuroqueer author uses identity-first language and centres the expertise of LGBTQIA+ autistic people. |
