Colman Noctor

And and.

almost 99% of those kids are fine.

When they hit 19, 20, they just find their level or they find their tribe or they find their thing.

And there's that sense of what were we worrying about?

In most cases, this stuff isn't the be all and end all.

And young adults, as they become young adults, find ways to navigate the world that suits them.

And they'll find something that they're curious about or they'll find something

that doesn't maybe feel like work to them or something that they're capable of or something that somebody else values them doing you know it might be a young guy does go to college goes to work in a bar and some bar manager takes him under his arm and says you've got a real skill here and within two years he's managing a bar and you know functioning really well driving a car and doing all those things when his mates are still trying to struggle through super middles in college you know

Right.

Colman, thanks so much for that.

And all the very best to all the students sitting their exams tomorrow.

It's going to be OK.

You got this.

It is.

I mean, again, I know there's a lot of anti-disorder movement that we shouldn't be talking about anything that's disordered and especially around neurodiversity, which it kind of falls under that umbrella.

And again, that was probably the part of the column that I was probably trying to make that point, that sometimes it's like these things are not deficits, they're variations of brain function.

And so there's probably a movement around thinking about them as almost a superpower in some respects.

So to have a disorder and a superpower at the same time seems at odds with each other.

My experience of it...

I would be very comfortable calling it a disorder or a condition.