What is neurodiversity?
How do you explain it to someone?
Here is my attempt:
image description:
The images and text in this image are as follows:image: A very basic human shaped outline consisting of a circle head and an upside down U line for the body, with the word “Pat” at the bottom.
text reads “This is Pat”.
image: A black line drawing style brain- the left side looks like a basic brain outline, the right side is made up of a light switch, a clock, a cog, a spool, two circuit boards and a lot of tubes all winding around and linking with each other. This image was sourced on Freepik.com.
text reads “This is Pat’s brain”
image: a row of 6 very basic human shaped outlines consisting of a circle head and an inside down U line for the body, each has a brain the same as image for Pats Brain above inside the head. Each person has a name at the bottom- left to right they are Alex, Drew, Pat, Lee, Jess and Sal. Each brain in a different colour. Alex is blue, Drew is green, Pat is yellow, Lee is orange, Jess is red, Sal is purple.
text reads “These are Pat’s friends. All Pats friends have Brains too. No two brains are exactly alike. This is Neurodiversity.”
image: a rainbow brain circle made of 6 brains.
texts reads “neuro- relating to nerves or the nervous system; diversity- the state of being diverse; diverse- showing a great deal of variety; very different”
text reads “Some peoples brains are similar enough that they behave in ways that are categorised and labelled. Some of these labels are normal, schizophrenic, bipolar, autistic and epileptic.
image: a group of brains arranged in circles by colour. The circles are blue, yellow, green, red, purple.
text reads “All these labels indicate Neurodivergence, that is, a deviation of a brain from the “normal”. People labeled with these things (and others) are Neurodivergent. ”
image: a circle of orange brains.
text reads “Not all neurodivergence is diagnosed, or even diagnosable. This means that not all people who are perceived as neurotypical are in fact so. Neurodivergence is neither “good” nor “bad”. A person cane born with it or it can be acquired. It is up to each neurodivergent individual to decide what help they desire.”
image: a row of 6 very basic human shaped outlines consisting of a circle head and an inside down U line for the body, each has a coloured brain and a name at the bottom of their body outline: Alex is blue, Drew is green, Pat is yellow, Lee is orange, Jess is red, Sal is purple. There is a colourful row of small triangular flags hanging above the group of people. Each flag has a letter on it. The letters together spell “NEURODIVERSITY”
text reads: “Pat and friends are comfortable with their individual divergences and their diversity as a group. They support each others rights to self determination, and they value the strengths they each bring to their group of friends.”
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