Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

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In fact, it is also a type of thinking very common in children, where joy, imagination, and a fresh perspective make their reasoning more free. Selected as a “brave new idea” presenter by the Aspen Institute for her work on re-framing mental differences, Jenara is also the founder and host of The Neurodiversity Project. Additionally, you can learn more about both the DSM description of the condition and the lived experiences of people with that presentation of neurodivergence.

Sharing real stories from women with high sensitivity, ADHD, autism, misophonia, dyslexia, SPD and more, Nerenberg explores how these brain variances present differently in women and dispels widely-held misconceptions (for example, it’s not that autistic people lack sensitivity and empathy, they have an overwhelming excess of it). The medicalization of “abnormal” behavior, which became the field we now know as psychiatry, is thus a history laced with layers and layers of distant players. Between a flawed system that focuses on diagnosing younger, male populations, and the fact that girls are conditioned from a young age to blend in and conform to gender expectations, women often don't learn about their neurological differences until they are adults, if at all.Using inspiration from your previous brainstorms, you can truly make your event the greatest it can be, or solve any problem efficiently.

FDM utilizes effective, innovative, digital, culturally-responsive methods to serve a broad range of individuals, families, organizations, and providers across the globe.About four thousand mentally ill patients were sterilized in the 1950s, a number similar to that of the 1920s. On a more divergent focus, Klein and Badia (2022), [11] and Olteţeanu and Falomir (2016) [12] proposed a divergent thinking emulation by modeling the Alternative Uses Task (AUT).