neurodiverse news: week 43 2025
topics of interest from the neuroscience, therapy, and neurodiverse communities
personal-narrative
Why did I bring my daughter to music class if I had such negative experiences with music as a kid?
by Dr. Brighton Earley, Psy.D. As a psychologist who works with children, I have acquired these bits and bobs of knowledge that I can apply (experiment with) to my own child. In Therapy School we learn that music is one thing that helps us humans with regulation, so we should recommend it to our patients … Read more
why we do what we do: my mother’s crone ceremony
It’s been very emotional for me to reemerge from the darkness of lockdown to return to building community through music-making. In my conversations with folks, it becomes clear that a younger generation of families don’t know about some of the ways we connected before, and don’t necessarily remember many of the ways things were different … Read more
instruments are tools
Originally posted to the EBCMP blog on September 10, 2018. We’ll post occasionally about why we are committed to making space for community music-making. Children don’t like keys, wallets and phones because there is something inherently interesting about them. They like these objects because they see them being used by the adults around them. Humans … Read more
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To be an autistic person is to be a person with something valuable inside you but to rarely find the right environment where your value is recognized as valuable by people around you.
This is me, speaking from the heart of an autistic person.
i, advocate
If you’ve been following my neurodiversity journey–as I articulate the experience of a person with autism, ADHD, aphantasia, and proprioception hyposensitivity from the inside, along with the other ways i share myself–and you’ve found that the insights I’ve shared connect with your experience, or contextualize something you suspected, realize that sharing these insights is one … Read more
Emotional processing
A recent conversation about emotional processing with my neurodiverse community got me thinking about putting language to my experience of my emotional ecosystem. I have realized for a long time that my emotions work differently from many people that I interact with, and it’s only recently that I have had language to describe what’s going … Read more
framing is everything
Neurodiversity is the new (different! better!) cognitive frame. Astrology, Enneagram, Meyers-Briggs, Chinese medicine, naturopathy, homeopathy: having passed through these modalities, none of them made me feel seen in the ways that they were implemented by the particular practitioners who applied them to me. To be fair, I may have met with unskilled practitioners. Your mileage … Read more
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My autistic traits are nothing to be afraid of. They are highly effective strategies in the environments for which they are adapted. If you spend time with me in these environments, a little of these traits may rub off on you, and your movement through these environments may be eased. I have come to never … Read more