It’s not neurodivergence that harms our mental health, it is social hostility

For Mental Health Awareness Week, 10-16 May 1921, these two graphics illustrate that having an atypical brain is not in itself a ‘mental illness’. Rather, the distress caused by society’s failure to accommodate our ways of thinking, communicating and interacting, and our sensory sensitivities makes neurodivergent people susceptible to mental ill-health.

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