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Why Is It So Hard to Do Something that Should Be Easy?

2019

Brendan Mahan explains why simple things can be so difficult.

06:34 min

‘We Can Literally Feel Our Patients’ Pain’: From a Neuroscientist to a Massage Therapist, We Speak to Some of the Rare Few Healthcare Professionals with ‘Mirror-Touch Synesthesia’

Mirror-touch synesthesia is a rare neurological trait that makes people highly empathic, allowing them to feel what others do by looking at or touching them.

Article
Natalie Rahhal
2018
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What’s It Like to See Ideas as Shapes?

Thoughts and feelings are constellations in the mind of a man with a rare form of synesthesia.

Article
Alissa Greenberg
2016
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Me and My Neurodiverse Family: ‘It’s Chaotic, Frenetic and Hilarious’

I’m a neurotypical, type-A rule follower—my husband and sons are anything but. How do we make it work? By embracing a funny, creative world of ADHD and difference.

Article
Ilona Bannister
2021
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Awareness and Allyship: It’s a New Day for Neurodiversity

From increased awareness to more diagnoses, neurodiversity has our attention

Article
Ariane Resnick
2021
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What Is Neurodiversity?

Neurodiversity is the idea that it’s normal and acceptable for people to have brains that function differently from one another.

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Ariane Resnick
2022
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What Does It Mean to Be Neurotypical?

Remember that people who are neurodivergent are not abnormal, or less smart than you; their brains work in ways we are still learning to understand, and they have just as much to offer as neurotypical people do.

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Ariane Resnick
2021
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Neurodiversity: Discovering the Extraordinary Gifts of Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Brain Differences

A new term has emerged from the disability movement in the past decade to help change the way we think about neurological disorders: Neurodiversity. ADHD. Dyslexia. Autism. The number of categories of illnesses listed by the American Psychiatric Association has tripled in the past fifty years.

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Thomas Armstrong
2010
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What Does It Mean to Be Neurodivergent?

Neurodivergence is the term for when someone’s brain processes, learns, and/or behaves differently from what is considered “typical.”

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Ariane Resnick
2021
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How to Deal with Sensory Overload as a Sensitive Person

Sometimes it feels like the world wasn’t designed for sensitive people. Here are ways to take care of yourself.

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Jenara Nerenberg
2020
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How Getting Hit by Lightning Changed a Woman’s Synesthesia

Head trauma made her see strange colors, even ones that are “not even real.”

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Sarah Zhang
2017
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