I’ve been watching the slow babbling evolution of terms like “neurotypical” and “neurodiversity” with growing repulsion. It’s turned into a predictable social divide. The usage is based entirely on ...

An increasing number of people are identifying as "neurodivergent," which is a term used to describe individuals with differences in how their brains work. Everyone and every brain is unique, but some ...

Back-to-school season is often filled with a mix of excitement and anxiety for students. While this is true for all students, including those who are neurotypical, neurodiverse, or disabled, ...

Neurotypical people adjust easily to changes in routine or environment. There is no formal test to determine if someone is neurotypical. Being neurotypical often has advantages in society designed for ...

As an autistic woman who has a full time job, lives on my own and even manages to blend in fairly well in social settings when I have the energy, my life has been a series of contradictions. I’ve been ...

New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London, in partnership with University College London and Anna Freud, has found that negative school ...

How can I get my neurotypical adult sons to interact more with their profoundly autistic older brother? I put this agonizing question out to my extensive autism community network and got very few ...

Neurofluid is a word I thought of a couple of years ago while exploring the tension between "neurotypical" and "neurodivergent" categories. It's been used in other contexts, both to refer to autistic ...