By Sarah Swenson — 2021
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From increased awareness to more diagnoses, neurodiversity has our attention
Neurodiversity is the idea that it’s normal and acceptable for people to have brains that function differently from one another.
Remember that people who are neurodivergent are not abnormal, or less smart than you; their brains work in ways we are still learning to understand, and they have just as much to offer as neurotypical people do.
Neurodivergence is the term for when someone’s brain processes, learns, and/or behaves differently from what is considered “typical.”
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Head trauma made her see strange colors, even ones that are “not even real.”
She also told Jimmy Fallon he appears to her as a “vertical brown rectangle.”
Synesthesia makes ordinary life marvelous.
Anecdotal observations from my own dealings.
It is estimated that approximately 3 to 5 percent of the population has some form of synesthesia and that women are more likely to become synesthetes than men.