Psychology

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

11 minutes

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

4 minutes

After neurodiversity

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

Bonnie Evans

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

14 minutes

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

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

2 minutes

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

8 minutes

‘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

Sarah Stein Lubrano

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

Louise Smith

Against neurodiversity

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

Moheb Costandi

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

4 minutes

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

3 minutes

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

11 minutes

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

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

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

Emily Willingham