I’m making a series of videos to introduce my new book The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Neurodivergent Brain (Completely Revised and Updated Second Edition). In this video, I take the viewer through some of the key events of the neurodiversity movement, which has its roots in the disability rights movement of...Read More

This is video #5 in a series that promotes my upcoming book The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Neurodivergent Brain (Completely Revised and Updated Second Edition)  In this video, I take a concept from evolutionary biology and apply it to human culture. Niche construction is the process through which animals build environments...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More