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Aaron Orsini grew up in the Chicago suburbs. [1] At the age of 23, while pursuing a degree in Multimedia Arts, his psychologist diagnosed him with autism. Following his diagnosis at the age of 27, and enduring some personal losses, Orsini ventured West, where he encountered his first experience with LSD.
If you've been on social media recently, chances are you've heard about being neurodivergent or neurotypical. On TikTok, there are over 240 million videos related to the term "neurodivergent."
Neurodivergent individuals face unique challenges in education and the workplace. The efficacy of accessibility and support programs in career development and higher education depends on the individual. [10] [11] Social media has introduced a platform where neurodiversity awareness and support has emerged, further promoting the neurodiversity ...
Also appears in the subsequent novels in the series. [160] [161] 2005 Victor Hoppe The Angel Maker: Stefan Brijs Belgium [162] 2005 Morgan Wiberg The Stone Cutter: Camilla Läckberg Sweden [163] 2006 David Rules: Cynthia Lord USA [164] 2006 Alan Wheddon Dear John: Nicholas Sparks USA: Adapted into the 2010 film of the same name. [165] Richard ...
Today Carlson facilitates a group of neurodivergent teenagers and young adults through their work with Islands of Brilliance, a Milwaukee-based nonprofit that provides learning experiences for ...
Devon Price is an American social psychologist, blogger, and author focusing on autism. He is best known for his books, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity and Laziness Does Not Exist , as well as for publishing shorter pieces on Medium and Psychology Today .
Divergent is the debut novel of American novelist Veronica Roth, published by HarperCollins Children's Books in 2011. The first in the Divergent series, a trilogy of young adult dystopian novels (plus a book of short stories), [1] the novel is set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago, where society defines its citizens by their social and personality-related affiliation with one of five factions.
The theory of the double empathy problem is a psychological and sociological theory first coined in 2012 by Damian Milton, an autistic autism researcher. [2] This theory proposes that many of the difficulties autistic individuals face when socializing with non-autistic individuals are due, in part, to a lack of mutual understanding between the two groups, meaning that most autistic people ...