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Psychology

Essays and videos offering insights into the self, relationships, cognition and neuroscience
Unschooling | Aeon
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Education

Unschooling

It takes nerve to go against the grain and take your child out of school. But, for some, that’s when learning really starts

Naomi Fisher & Heidi Steel

Drawing on autism | Aeon
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Ethics

An animator wonders: can you ever depict someone without making them a caricature?

10 minutes

A is for autism | Aeon
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Neurodiversity

Autistic children and adults sketch out the look and feel of their sensory world

11 minutes

The power of diverse thinking | Aeon
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Neurodiversity

Workplace diversity isn’t just about equality – it’s a competitive advantage

4 minutes

The great world of Gregory Blackstock | Aeon
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Art

How a self-taught autistic artist mines creativity from life’s endless variations

11 minutes

After neurodiversity | Aeon
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Neurodiversity

After neurodiversity

We live in a world that must move beyond identity politics and embrace new models of the mind. Enter psydiversity

Bonnie Evans

Out of mind | Aeon
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Neurodiversity

What it’s like to have aphantasia, the inability to visualise images in the mind’s eye

14 minutes

Uncle Thomas: accounting for the days | Aeon
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Mental health

A ‘poet of the everyday’: an animated ode to a beloved uncle with OCD

13 minutes

Am I disabled? | Aeon
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Neurodiversity

Am I disabled?

With my pen hovering over a form, there is no easy answer: better to provoke stigma with support, or resist classification?

Joanne Limburg

Giant Steps | Aeon
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Neurodiversity

Step into synaesthesia’s visual soundscape, built with the music of John Coltrane

2 minutes

Music and clowns | Aeon
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Family life

Jamie is empathetic and funny – and a ‘complete mystery’ to those who love him most

8 minutes

Carlotta’s face | Aeon
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Neurodiversity

‘A face is a hilly landscape.’ How a face-blind artist paints what she can’t recognise

5 minutes

Living with ADHD: how I learned to make distraction work for me | Aeon
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Neurodiversity

Living with ADHD: how I learned to make distraction work for me

Sarah Stein Lubrano

My autism journey: how I learned to stop trying to fit in | Aeon
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Neurodiversity

My autism journey: how I learned to stop trying to fit in

Louise Smith

Against neurodiversity | Aeon
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Neurodiversity

Against neurodiversity

The movement has good intentions, but it favours the high-functioning and overlooks those who struggle with severe autism

Moheb Costandi

The sleep artist | Aeon
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Neurodiversity

The work of a sleepwalking artist offers a glimpse into the fertile slumbering brain

4 minutes

Poetry of perception: Song of Myself | Aeon
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Consciousness and altered states

‘Now I will do nothing but listen’ – Walt Whitman on how sound shapes the self

3 minutes

John and Michael | Aeon
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Love and friendship

Dances and giggles and stars: two men with Down syndrome fall in love

11 minutes

Autism from the inside | Aeon
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Neurodiversity

Autism from the inside

Too many depictions of autistic people rely on tired clichés. The neurotypical world needs to take note of our own voices

Katherine May

The autism paradox | Aeon
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Neurodiversity

The autism paradox

How an autism diagnosis became both a clinical label and an identity; a stigma to be challenged and a status to be embraced

Bonnie Evans

The non-binary brain | Aeon
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Gender and identity

The non-binary brain

Misogynists are fascinated by the idea that human brains are biologically male or female. But they’ve got the science wrong

Emily Willingham

Labyrinth | Aeon
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Subcultures

How the deaf experience of music can enrich music for everyone

12 minutes

Perfectly normal | Aeon
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Neurodiversity

Living with Asperger’s is a delicate balance between external and internal worlds

12 minutes

Oliver Sacks on ripe bananas | Aeon
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Neurodiversity

How the ‘Island of the Colourblind’ made Oliver Sacks rethink ‘normal’

6 minutes