In this video, part of introducing people to my new book The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Neurodivergent Brain (Completely Revised and Updated Second Edition), I talk about seven different strengths associated with autism spectrum disorder. These include:- a gift for detail- enhanced perceptual functioning – doing better on the Raven’s IQ...Read More

I’m creating a series of videos to introduce my new book The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain (Completely Revised and Updated Second Edition). In this video, #5 in this series, I talked about positive niche construction or the creation of favorable environmental settings within which a neurodivergent person can...Read More

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...Read More

The following is an article I wrote that was published in Arts of Thought, a website dedicated to sharing the knowledge and wisdom of intriguing healers and thinkers from around the planet. There’s a program on the web that invites people during the month of November to write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days. Well,...Read More

In 2021-2022, I taught a class for the Bridges Graduate School of Cognitive Diversity in Education.  and created videos from the lectures I gave.  This video is #4 in the 10 video series for the course entitled Introduction to Neurodiversity. The video describes a concept that I’ve adapted from evolutionary biology called niche construction, which...Read More