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From Deficit to Superpowers: Is It Ableist to Focus on Neurodivergent Strengths?

By Nancy Doyle — 2021

Let’s move beyond superpowers but not forget to keep promoting our strengths.

Read on www.forbes.com

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Neurodiversity–The Key that Unlocked My World | Elisabeth Wiklander | TEDxGöteborg

What do you think about, when you hear the word “autism”? No diagnostic manual can truly explain the multifaceted experience of autism. It’s a neurological difference with a vast spectrum of representation within its population.

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2017
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Anxiety and Autism/Neurodiversity Issues w/Christa Holmans

Today I chatted with Christa Holmans about some of the overlapping issues found in both anxiety disorders and autism and other neurodiversity conditions such as ADHD.

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2019
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The Intersection of Anxiety and Neurodiversity

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2021
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Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life and Autism

What happens when you make it to adulthood before finding out you're autistic? As A.J. Odasso writes in this anthology: “You spend a lot of time wondering what’s wrong without ever knowing why.” This anthology includes essays from a diverse group of adult-diagnosed autistic people.

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Autistic Self Advocacy Network
2025
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Spoon Knife 4: A Neurodivergent Guide to Spacetime

If time and space held no constraints upon you — what would you change? who would you protect? what would you be willing to sacrifice? Welcome to A Neurodivergent Guide to Spacetime.

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B. Allan (editor), Dora M. Raymaker (editor)
2025
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Playing to Our Strengths: Neurodiversity & Education | Christy Hutton | TEDxSantaCruz

The new generation of education has to re-prioritize on the fact that all of the data we used to memorize is now at our fingertips in smart-phones and what society needs is for people to think--differently, uniquely, creatively, critically, and freely! This talk is about ways that this can be...

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2016
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The ADHD Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Gain Motivation and Confidence

Focus on Your Strengths and Overcome ADHD Symptoms of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, can strike at any time-during class, when you're listening to a friend's story, while doing homework, and did we mention during class? You might find it difficult to pay attention and sit still...

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Lara Honos-Webb
2011
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Twice Exceptional: Supporting and Educating Bright and Creative Students with Learning Difficulties

In an educational system founded on rigid standards and categories, students who demonstrate a very specific manifestation of intelligence flourish, while those who deviate tend to fall between the cracks.

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Scott Barry Kaufman (editor)
2025
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To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled: Strength-Based Strategies for Helping Twice-Exceptional Students With LD, ADHD, ASD, and More

To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled is one of the most popular resources available on identifying and meeting the needs of twice-exceptional students.

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Susan M. Baum, Robin Schader, Steven V. Owen
2017
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Helping Your Child with Language-Based Learning Disabilities: Strategies to Succeed in School and Life with Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, ADHD, and Processing Disorders

Based in cutting-edge research in neuroscience, education, and the principles of attachment-based teaching, this important guide for parents offers tools and practices to help children transcend language-based learning difficulties, do better in school, and gain self-confidence and self-esteem.

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Daniel Franklin
2025
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