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The Concept of Neurodiversity Is Dividing the Autism Community

By Simon Baron-Cohen — 2019

It remains controversial—but it doesn’t have to be. We need to embrace both the neurodiversity model and the medical model to fully understand autism.

Read on blogs.scientificamerican.com

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Creating the World We Want to Live In: How Positive Psychology Can Build a Brighter Future

This book is about hope and a call to action to make the world the kind of place we want to live in.

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Bridget Grenville-Cleave, Dóra Guðmundsdóttir, Felicia Huppert, Vanessa King, David Roffey, Sue Roffey, Marten de Vries
2021
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Changing How We See/Serve People With Physical Disabilities | Joy Wagner | TEDxBarringtonAreaLibrary

Joy Wagner is the developer of the fitMS® rehabilitation program, dedicated to providing services and support to MS patients and others with neuromuscular conditions. Joy Wagner, received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from the University of Iowa.

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2017
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Inclusion, Belonging and the Disability Revolution: Jennie Fenton at TEDxBellingen

Jennie shares the story of her family’s journey from disability to possibility and all the dark and light places in between.

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2014
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Human Neurodiversity Should Be Celebrated, Not Treated as a Disorder | Op-Ed | NowThis

One in 59 children are identified with autism spectrum disorders and millions of children have been diagnosed with ADHD in the U.S.—yet psychologist Devon MacEachron, PhD believes that there is too little attention given to enabling people with neurologically different minds.

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2018
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We Went to a Support Group for Black People in America

Alzo Slade participates in an “Emotional Emancipation Circle,” an Afrocentric support group created by the Community Healing Network and the Association of Black Psychologists. It’s a safe space for Black people to share personal experiences with racism and to process racial trauma.

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2020
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Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

In her latest book, five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Brené Brown writes, “If we want to find the way back to ourselves and one another, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories and to be stewards of the stories that we hear.

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Brené Brown
2025
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27 – Persist at Problems That Seem Insurmountable with Erin Brockovich

It’s been 20 years since the movie (starring Julia Roberts) that made Erin Brockovich a household name was in theaters. Erin has some excellent advice regarding standing up for what’s right, taking care of yourself, and tackling things that seem impossible.

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The Verywell Mind Podcast With Amy Morin
2020
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The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community

After almost every presentation activist and writer Mia Birdsong gives to executives, think tanks, and policy makers, one of those leaders quietly confesses how much they long for the profound community she describes.

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Mia Birdsong
2020
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Project Fatherhood: A Story of Courage and Healing in One of America’s Toughest Communities

In 2010, former gang leader turned community activist Big Mike Cummings asked UCLA gang expert Jorja Leap to co-lead a group of men struggling to be better fathers in Watts, South Los Angeles, a neighborhood long burdened with a legacy of racialized poverty, violence, and incarceration.

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Jorja Leap
2016
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