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Psychology

Essays and videos offering insights into the self, relationships, cognition and neuroscience
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Philosophy of mind

What colour do you see?

New research is uncovering the hidden differences in how people experience the world. The consequences are unsettling

Gary Lupyan

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Art

Inside the unique creative space where ‘outsider’ artists find their form

14 minutes

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Biography and memoir

A young autistic man’s heartfelt letter to the beloved mother he lost

12 minutes

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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

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Ethics

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

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Neurodiversity

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

11 minutes

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Neurodiversity

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

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Art

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

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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

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Neurodiversity

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

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Mental health

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

13 minutes

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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

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Neurodiversity

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

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Family life

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

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Neurodiversity

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

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Neurodiversity

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

Sarah Stein Lubrano

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Neurodiversity

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

Louise Smith

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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

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Neurodiversity

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

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Consciousness and altered states

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

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Love and friendship

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

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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

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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

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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