How to Thrive When Your Brain is Different

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🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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For decades, experts classified people as having “normal” or “abnormal” brains depending on certain traits. Conditions such as autism, synesthesia, and sensory processing disorder are considered “abnormal.” Several years ago, Jenara Nerenberg, a Harvard and Berkeley-educated writer, entrepreneur, and mother, realized that type of binary thinking is flawed and miscategorizes many people, especially women. She went on to found The Neurodiversity Project, an organization that supports the neurodivergent community, and to write “Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed For You.” In her new book, Nerenberg presents a new way to understand neurodiversity and how it presents differently in women. She also challenges widely accepted misperceptions of neurodivergent traits. We talk with Nerenberg about her new book, The Neurodiversity Project, and her most recent venture, The Interracial Project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:11.6	From KQBD Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim. Coming up on forum, Janara Nirenberg is trying to fill what she sees as a gaping hole in research on women with high sensitivity, ADHD, autism, and other neurodivergences.
1:17.0	In her new book, Divergent Mind, she offers ways to make space for and to celebrate neurodiversity.
1:18.7	Then, as anger grows over the police killing of Brianna Taylor, we look at why it received
1:24.3	little national response when it happened on March 13th and why black
1:28.9	women's experiences of police violence tend to receive less attention.
1:33.2	That's all next on Forum.
1:34.7	Join us. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim.
1:48.9	Janara Nirenberg was shocked to learn just a few years ago that her anxiety could actually
1:54.1	be considered autistic and ADHD. She began studying neurodivergent women to better understand
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