Neurodiversity

A drawing of different people with different brains

Neurodiversity is a word for differences in people's brains. It is a type of biodiversity (diversity in living creatures).

It describes the vast range of neurotypes that humans have as a species, and the variation from person to person.

Movement

The neurodiversity movement is an approach to mental disability in which some neurological conditions are variations of the human brain. The term was first used in the late 1990s as a challenge to the idea that neurological differences are disorders instead of features. The movement believes that these variations should be recognised as a social category along with gender, human race and sexual orientation, the people with the neurological variations in question often adopt the label of Neurodivergent (as opposed to Neurotypical; refering to the subjectively typical brain function of someone who isn't neurodivergent.)

Related pages

• Autism rights movement
• Biodiversity