In this video I discuss the strengths associated with intellectual disabilities. It is especially important to do this because people with intellectual disabilities have been denegrated for over a century because of the dark history of I.Q. testing in America, wherein eugenically-minded psychologists used words like ”moron” and ”imbecile” to describe these individuals, and where...Read More

I’m making a series of videos to introduce my new book The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Neurodivergent Brain (Completely Revised and Updated Second Edition). In this video, I take the viewer through some of the key events of the neurodiversity movement, which has its roots in the disability rights movement of...Read More

This is video #5 in a series that promotes my upcoming book The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Neurodivergent Brain (Completely Revised and Updated Second Edition)  In this video, I take a concept from evolutionary biology and apply it to human culture. Niche construction is the process through which animals build environments...Read More

I’m putting together a series of neurodiversity videos to promote my new book The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Neurodivergent Brain (Completely Revised and Updated Second Edition). In this video, I explore a major theme in the book that our society constructs mental health diagnoses largely to uphold sacrosanct social values. I...Read More

As part of my promotion of my new book The Power of Neurodiversity:  Unleashing the Advantages of Your Neurodivergent Brain (Completely Revised and Updated Second Edition), I’m sharing neurodiversity videos that I’ve done in the  past.  This video is from a virtual keynote that I did for an educational group in Hong Kong in 2023. ...Read More