By Zaria Gorvett — 2018
There’s mounting evidence that brain damage has the power to unlock extraordinary creative talents. What can this teach us about how geniuses are made?
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Anthony Hopkins, Wentworth Miller and others are showing us that autism is more varied than it once seemed to be.
Transgender or gender-fluid people are more likely to be neurodivergent, and vice versa. Here’s what that’s like.
The diagnosis was “a shock, but not a surprise,” he said.
As we peer around the corner of the pandemic, let’s talk about what we want to do—and not do—with the rest of our lives.
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A few months and many deaths ago, I woke up exhausted, again. Every morning, I felt like I was rebuilding myself from the ground up. Waking up was hard. Getting to my desk to write was hard. Taking care of my body was hard. Remembering the point of it all was hard.
Your child is wired differently, and that means his life may not follow the path you envisioned. Before you can help him thrive, you must give yourself space and time to recognize the emotions that a neurodivergent diagnosis brings. Here’s how to get started embracing your new “normal.”
Give your child the self-esteem and skills to become a self-actualized adult who embraces self-discovery. That is every parent’s goal, but it is especially challenging—and important—when your child is neurodivergent. Use these four steps to help your child on that journey.
Getting an official diagnosis as an adult is hard – but this year I got to know what being female and neurodivergent means.
The shift toward greater awareness of autism means that people who did not get diagnosed in childhood may pursue diagnosis as adults.
Having been diagnosed with ADHD at 38, Howard Timberlake went on a personal quest to discover whether any of us has a “typical” mind.