What Makes a Brain Neurodivergent?

Sarah Kennett

Published on: 03/06/2025

In recent years, the concept of neurodiversity has gained prominence, encouraging a shift from viewing neurological differences as deficits to recognising them as natural variations of the human brain. Coined in the late 1990s, neurodiversity encompasses conditions like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and others, emphasising that these differences are part of normal human variation.