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We Are All Synesthetes

By Bence Nanay — 2019

Given the right circumstances.

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Does the Term “Neurodiversity” do More Harm than Good?

Attempts to normalize abnormal development could prevent individuals in need of help from seeking it.

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Autism Acceptance Not Awareness: A Perspective Shift Is Needed

The most radical act you can perform as an ally to Autistic people is to accept them exactly as they are and beyond that to celebrate them and their neurotype.

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Life and Simulated Death with Mirror Touch Synaesthesia

Since she was young, Luna Jones has had the “superhuman” ability to feel everything you (and everyone else) feels. Is it a burden or a gift?

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Some People with Synaesthesia Feel Other People’s Sensations of Touch – Painful and Pleasurable

Interactions between self-other representation and vicarious perception are thought to be important to how we all experience empathy.

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Help Arrives for Mirror-Touch Synesthetes

Pioneering therapist Dr. Judith Orloff counsels the highly empathic.

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Is Mirror Touch Synesthesia a Real Thing?

Mirror touch synesthesia is a condition that causes a person to feel the sensations of being touched on the opposite side or part of their body when they see another person being touched.

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Mental Disorder or Neurodiversity?

Embracing, not fixing, mental differences

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3 Ways to Embrace Neurodiversity in the Workplace

In a work world dominated by automation, digitalization, and increasing incivility, the need for one group of workers, those whom I call “sensitive strivers,” has never been greater.

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What the Future of Psychology Looks Like

Neurodiversity, sensitivity, and how the status quo snubs 20–30% of us.

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Where 75% of Workers Are on the Autistic Spectrum

Our brains don’t all work the same way. One New York–based software company sees that as a competitive advantage.

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