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Philosophy of mind
What colour do you see?
New research is uncovering the hidden differences in how people experience the world. The consequences are unsettling
Gary Lupyan
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Art
Inside the unique creative space where ‘outsider’ artists find their form
14 minutes
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Biography and memoir
A young autistic man’s heartfelt letter to the beloved mother he lost
12 minutes
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Education
Unschooling
It takes nerve to go against the grain and take your child out of school. But, for some, that’s when learning really starts
Naomi Fisher & Heidi Steel
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Ethics
An animator wonders: can you ever depict someone without making them a caricature?
10 minutes
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Neurodiversity
Autistic children and adults sketch out the look and feel of their sensory world
11 minutes
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Neurodiversity
Workplace diversity isn’t just about equality – it’s a competitive advantage
4 minutes
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Art
How a self-taught autistic artist mines creativity from life’s endless variations
11 minutes
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Neurodiversity
After neurodiversity
We live in a world that must move beyond identity politics and embrace new models of the mind. Enter psydiversity
Bonnie Evans
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Neurodiversity
What it’s like to have aphantasia, the inability to visualise images in the mind’s eye
14 minutes
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Mental health
A ‘poet of the everyday’: an animated ode to a beloved uncle with OCD
13 minutes
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Neurodiversity
Am I disabled?
With my pen hovering over a form, there is no easy answer: better to provoke stigma with support, or resist classification?
Joanne Limburg
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Neurodiversity
Step into synaesthesia’s visual soundscape, built with the music of John Coltrane
2 minutes
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Family life
Jamie is empathetic and funny – and a ‘complete mystery’ to those who love him most
8 minutes
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Neurodiversity
‘A face is a hilly landscape.’ How a face-blind artist paints what she can’t recognise
5 minutes
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Neurodiversity
Living with ADHD: how I learned to make distraction work for me
Sarah Stein Lubrano
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Neurodiversity
My autism journey: how I learned to stop trying to fit in
Louise Smith
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Neurodiversity
Against neurodiversity
The movement has good intentions, but it favours the high-functioning and overlooks those who struggle with severe autism
Moheb Costandi
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Neurodiversity
The work of a sleepwalking artist offers a glimpse into the fertile slumbering brain
4 minutes
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Consciousness and altered states
‘Now I will do nothing but listen’ – Walt Whitman on how sound shapes the self
3 minutes
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Love and friendship
Dances and giggles and stars: two men with Down syndrome fall in love
11 minutes
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Neurodiversity
Autism from the inside
Too many depictions of autistic people rely on tired clichés. The neurotypical world needs to take note of our own voices
Katherine May
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Neurodiversity
The autism paradox
How an autism diagnosis became both a clinical label and an identity; a stigma to be challenged and a status to be embraced
Bonnie Evans
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Gender and identity
The non-binary brain
Misogynists are fascinated by the idea that human brains are biologically male or female. But they’ve got the science wrong
Emily Willingham