Neurodiversity

Neurodiversity refers to variation in the human brain regarding sociability, learning, attention, mood and other mental functions in a non-pathological sense. Neurodiversity is a viewpoint that brain differences are normal, rather than deficits. Neurodiverse people experience, interact with, and interpret the world in unique ways. This concept can help reduce stigma around learning and thinking differences.

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
A Kind of Spark
Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism
We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation
Strong Female Character
What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum
Sincerely, Your Autistic Child
Odd Girl Out
Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
Julia Kristeva
If it is true that those who are slaves to their moods, beings drowned in their sorrows, reveal a number of psychic or cognitive frailties, it is equally true that a diversification of moods, variety in sadness, refinement in sorrow or mourning are the imprint of a humankind that is surely not triumphant but subtle, ready to fight, and creative...
Julia Kristeva, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia.

Ronen Dancziger רונן דנציגר
Neurodivergence doesn’t follow a straight line. It curves, overlaps, and branches into complex, beautiful configurations.
Ronen Dancziger, The Therapist's Handbook for Neurodivergent People: A NeuroFlex ACT Guide for Living Fully with ADHD, Autism, OCD, and a Neurodivergent Life

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