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Understanding the Neurodivergent Perspective

By The Optimist View — 2019

What’s it like to live in a body and brain that functions differently than the majority of your peers? We are not talking about subtle differences—as always exist between any two minds—but rather those individuals who possess an entire mental processing system that is metaphorically blind to much of what most people take for granted, but has different kinds of perception that completely escape the majority.

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