Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

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It has since evolved into an online blog and YouTube channel providing mental health advice, tools, and academic support to individuals from all backgrounds.

The exact number of people who are neurodivergent is not known, but looking at the prevalence of conditions linked to neurodiversity can indicate how common it may be. In 1875, another British physician, Andrew Wynter, believed that insanity was passed down to children from the mother. If both groups still have not come to a consensus about the idea for moving forward, instruct each group to choose oneof their remaining ideas to bring to the table. When we allow our wide variety of brain makeups to flourish, we create a better tomorrow for us all.

While these differences may go unrecognized or undiagnosed in childhood, that doesn't mean they were not there and suddenly appeared in adulthood. According to the Autism Self-Advocacy Network, autistic people generally think, process their senses, move, communicate, and socialize in a consistent range of ways that differ from how allistic, non-autistic, people do.

The switch from moral treatment to what people were swayed to believe was “hard science” was led by William Hammond, the Surgeon General during the US Civil War, who claimed that insanity was definitely a brain disease. If you have been diagnosed with any of the above conditions, you would be considered neurodivergent.Whatever feelings and bodily complaints women described at the time were generally not believed by doctors, who discarded the complaints as lies and caused by laziness. By understanding the difference between convergent and divergent thinking, you can more effectively plan out your brainstorming session and come to the best solution without frustration. North America’s first medical college was established in 1765 in Philadelphia, signaling the arrival of medicine and medical studies as “scientific. While neurodivergence is common, many people do not realize they are neurodivergent until they reach adulthood. Cookies collect information about your preferences and your devices and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests.

You may decide to make the event Disney-themed, for example, to have a fun event without shelling out the costs of actually going to Florida. In other eras, as women began working outside the home and gaining more freedom, doctors advised them to stay home for fear of injuring their reproductive organs. This book is powerful, much-needed for our times, and Jenara Nerenberg offers a unique blend of personal, scientific, and societal analysis. Divergent thinking is a thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions. The book de-pathologizes those of us who most profoundly and intensely think and feel the world around us.Divergent thinking is the capacity to find relationships between ideas, concepts, and processes that, at first glance, lack any similarity. Therefore, we could also conclude that this type of thinking is also born out of a certain attitude towards life: free, cheerful, nonconformist, open to new experiences… It might interest you. Founded and led by a team of racially diverse multiply-neurodivergent autistic people of marginalized orientations and gender alignments, our mission is to ensure equity, access, and fulfilled lives through inclusive, practical, affirming neurodiversity based programming and education. That is, sometimes they relate two things to each other that don’t make sense but other networks contribute and an ingenious idea results. This shows that their subjects are at a distinct cognitive advantage when performing divergent thinking-related tasks in an elevated mood.