Neurodivergence and Neurodiversity

As many of you know, I have lived with mental illness and what I now understand as neurodivergence for the majority of my life. I am only now identifying with the label of neurodiversity or neurodivergence, and I want to take this time and write this post to explain all of that a bit better.

In brief, neurodiversity is a term and a movement designed to redefine and re-contextualize conditions such as autism, ADHD, dyslexia, sensory processing disorders, and other experiences of people who fall somewhere in that spectrum. I started looking into this movement in college, after being diagnosed with ADHD at age 19.