Dr Sarah Warley

And I hope they have that rather than nobody.

But yeah, totally, that's a real thing.

showing who you really are and you know the bigger question in all of this is why are we putting this tremendous pressure okay disproportionately on women but frankly on anyone who doesn't fit the mold this disproportionate pressure to fit into this neurotypical world whatever on earth that is um

It just strikes me as phenomenally unfair because, you know, you're coping with a load of things that don't come easily or naturally to you anyway.

You're being judged according to neurotypical criteria.

And that isn't enough.

You've got to then try and fit in and pretend to be something else.

Why can't the neurotypical world meet neurodiversity where it is?

Why should neurodiverse people be the ones to do the changing?

And I think it's, you know, people talk about tolerating and being tolerant or accepting.

I don't even like that language.

I think we need to shift it.

We need to kind of take off our blinkered vision and see the tremendous value and benefits that neurodivergent people bring.

And I think I've talked about this before, but again, in a world that is increasingly going to be dominated by AI, if you want the sit down, concentrate, convergent, analytic thinking, marvelous, get a machine to do it for you.

If you want the big picture, leaps, connect the dots, intuition, seeing stuff other people don't see and noticing something that's going on.

that's when you need a neurodiverse brain.

And we need to start valuing it.

And I don't actually even like the word divergent.

Why can't we say extraordinary, neuroextraordinary?

Right?