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Neurodiversity #4: Social Values Dictate Who is Disordered

I’m putting together a series of neurodiversity videos to promote my new book The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Neurodivergent Brain (Completely Revised and Updated Second Edition). In this video, I explore a major theme in the book that our society constructs mental health diagnoses largely to uphold sacrosanct social values. I […]

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Neurodiversity Multiple Intelligences and Savant Syndrome

As part of my promotion of my new book The Power of Neurodiversity:  Unleashing the Advantages of Your Neurodivergent Brain (Completely Revised and Updated Second Edition), I’m sharing neurodiversity videos that I’ve done in the  past.  This video is from a virtual keynote that I did for an educational group in Hong Kong in 2023.  […]

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Neurodiversity Video #3: Your Brain is a Rain Forest

This is the third video in my ”Neurodiversity” series that features my new book The Power of Neurodiversity:  Unleashing the Advantages of Your Neurodivergent Brain (Completely Revised and Updated Second Edition).  In this video I talk about the metaphors we use to describe the brain.  I take issue with the way in which adults explain […]

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Power of Neurodiversity – Video #2: The Culture of Flowers

I’m producing a series of videos to promote my new book The Power of Neurodiversity:  Unleashing the Advantages of Your Neurodivergent Brain.  This is the second video: ” The Culture of Flowers.”  I begin the book with this story, telling about people waking up one morning and finding everyone has been changed into a flower.  […]

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Watch Video on My Book The Power of the Adolescent Brain

Hey Folks!  I just did an hour-long podcast for Hapara, a classroom management software company, focusing on my book The Power of the Adolescent Brain: Strategies for Teaching Middle and High School Students.  Just click the arrow and watch the hour-long video.  There’s also a written transcript available.  Enjoy!  See also my 12-part video series […]

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Power of Neurodiversity Video #1: 15 Key Features of Book

Fifteen years ago, I wrote The Power of Neurodiversity:  Unleashing the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain.  At the time, few people knew the term neurodiversity, and the sales of the book were slow.  However, in the past several years, neurodiversity has emerged from obscurity to become a word that seems to be on everybody’s […]

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15 Key Features of New Book The Power of Neurodiversity

Fifteen years ago, I wrote The Power of Neurodiversity:  Unleashing the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain.  At the time, few people knew the term neurodiversity, and the sales of the book were slow.  However, in the past several years, neurodiversity has emerged from obscurity to become a word that seems to be on everybody’s […]

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Trump Hates Diversity

We all know that Trump hates diversity. On March 18 2025 President Trump announced: “We will terminate every diversity, equity, and inclusion program across the entire federal government.”  According to the New York Times, Trump has ordered the removal of the following words from public-facing websites, or ordered the elimination of other materials (including school […]

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Staying Strong in the Face of Pernicious Trumpism

I just had a double-whammy this week.  I attended a community play of George Orwell’s 1984 (where an authority tries to convince a captive that the four fingers he’s holding out represent five fingers), and watched the movie The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski (where Oscar-winner Adrian Brody frantically escapes one Nazi after another in […]

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A Letter to 77,302,580 Trump Voters

So, I hear you voted for Trump, eh?  Well, there’s no way I can possibly fathom why you made that choice – I’m sure you had your reasons.  But I just wanted you to stop for a moment and consider what you accomplished in voting for Donald J. Trump.  Look at what he’s done in […]

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