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Happy #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek 🎉
To celebrate, I thought I’d put together some information on neurodiversity and a few thoughts from a personal perspective. Here we go 👇
To celebrate, I thought I’d put together some information on neurodiversity and a few thoughts from a personal perspective. Here we go 👇
First, what is neurodiversity? 🤔
Neurodiversity describes the natural variations in human brains & how people experience the world more uniquely than others. It includes a range of conditions like Attention Deficit Disorders, Autism, Dyslexia and Dyspraxia, and Dyscalculia.
Neurodiversity describes the natural variations in human brains & how people experience the world more uniquely than others. It includes a range of conditions like Attention Deficit Disorders, Autism, Dyslexia and Dyspraxia, and Dyscalculia.
We often hear a lot about different conditions, but rarely neurodiversity as a broader umbrella term.
1-in-7 people in the UK are neurodivergent – not an insignificant number. People with neurodiversity often face significant challenges in their daily lives.
1-in-7 people in the UK are neurodivergent – not an insignificant number. People with neurodiversity often face significant challenges in their daily lives.
This week is #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek!
Like most autistic-led organisations, AMASE strongly supports the celebration of neurodiversity; humankind is stronger, and more interesting, because different people think and experience the world differently.
amase.org.uk/resources/
Like most autistic-led organisations, AMASE strongly supports the celebration of neurodiversity; humankind is stronger, and more interesting, because different people think and experience the world differently.
amase.org.uk/resources/
You don't need to think all neurodivergent people have superpowers to celebrate neurodiversity!
As human beings, we have much to offer whether or not we have extraordinary talents; diversity, and people who process the world differently, are worth celebrating for their own sake.
As human beings, we have much to offer whether or not we have extraordinary talents; diversity, and people who process the world differently, are worth celebrating for their own sake.
Neurodiversity is not a name for a collection of labelled neurological differences: it is a term describing the collective cognitive diversity of humans as a species.
It is one manifestation of biodiversity - the variation that gives ecologies their resilience and adaptability.
It is one manifestation of biodiversity - the variation that gives ecologies their resilience and adaptability.
Big ND Celebration Week news: My 1st PhD publication is out (early vers) in Human Development! Title: Conceptualising Autistic Masking, Camouflaging and Neurotypical Privilege: Towards a Minority Group Model of Neurodiversity. Thread translating to public: karger.com/Article/Abstra…
Nearly 3/4s of Autistic folks report masking & camouflaging [concealing Autistic traits/identity] (@DrEilidh & Troxell-Whitman, 2019). Reasons for masking/camouflaging include facing discrimination if appearing visibly Autistic--so why is Autism called an ‘invisible’ Disability?
@Noahsasson & Morrison (2019, p.51) found that masking (aka camouflage) is “stressful and exhausting” alongside being “associated with anxiety, depression, and poorer self-image”; and @DrMBotha & Frost (2020) argue these poor well-being outcomes reflect Autistic ‘minority stress’
