NEURODIVERSITY.

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SIMPLY, WE ARE ALL NEURODIVERSE…

YES, ME, YOU, YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR FAMILY…..THE WORLD IS MADE UP OF A LOVELY MIX OF DIFFERENT GENDERS, RACES, CULTURES AND IN THE CASE OF NEURODIVERSITY - BRAIN TYPES.

NEURODIVERSITY RECOGNISES THAT NOT ONLY DO WE ALL LOOK UNIQUE, OUR BRAINS ARE UNIQUE TOO. IT ACCEPTS A VIEWPOINT THAT BRAINS THAT ARE DIFFERENT ARE NORMAL.

NEURODIVERSITY IS A TERM ORIGINALLY COINED BY AUSTRALIAN SOCIOLOGIST, JUDY SINGER, IN THE LATE 1990’S. SO, AS FAR AS OUR VAST HISTORY IS CONCERNED, ITS A RELATIVELY NEW IDEA. ITS NOT SURPRISING THEN THAT NOT EVERYONE WILL BE ACCUSTOMED TO THE TERM.

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE WORLD VIEWED NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DIFFERENCES LIKE ADHD, AUTISM, AND LEARNING DISABILITIES DIFFERENTLY? IF EVERYONE NOTICED THE STRENGTHS THAT CAN COME FROM THESE DIFFERENCES FIRST, INSTEAD OF THE CHALLENGES?

THAT’S THE BASIC IDEA OF NEURODIVERSITY - THAT DIFFERENCES DON’T HAVE TO ONLY BE LOOKED AT AS WEAKNESSES. THEY’RE NOT PROBLEMS THAT NEED TO BE ‘FIXED’ OR ‘CURED.’ THEY’RE SIMPLY VARIATIONS OF THE HUMAN BRAIN.

THE NERODIVERSITY VIEW IS ALSO PERSONAL. BEING NEURODIVERGENT CAN HELP SHAPE IDENTITY AND HOW PEOPLE SEE THEMSELVES AND THEIR VALUE IN THE WORLD. NEURODIVERGENT PEOPLE EXPERIENCE, INTERACT WITH AND INTERPRET THE WORLD IN UNIQUE WAYS. THAT CAN SOMETIMES CREATE CHALLENGES. BUT IT CAN ALSO LEAD TO CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING AND NEW IDEAS - THINGS THAT BENEFIT EVERYONE

SO LET’S BREAK IT DOWN……AND GET USED TO SOME OF THE LANGUAGE SURROUNDING NEURODIVERSITY.

WE ARE ALL NEURODIVERSE

HOWEVER IN THIS GREAT BIG MELTING POT OF THE HUMAN POPULATION YOU WILL EITHER BE NEUROTYPICAL OR NEURODIVERGENT.

NEUROTYPICAL IS A DESCRIPTOR THAT REFERS TO SOMEONE WHO HAS THE BRAIN FUNCTION, BEHAVIORS AND PROCESSING CONSIDERED STANDARD OR TYPICAL.

NEUROTYPICAL PEOPLE MAY HAVE NO IDEA THEY ARE, BECAUSE THE SUBJECT HAS LIKELY NEVER COME UP FOR THEM BEFORE. THESE PEOPLE NORMALLY HIT ALL OF THEIR DEVELOPMENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL MILESTONES AT THE SAME TIMES AND AGES THAT ARE CONSIDERED STANDARD FOR MOST PEOPLE. ONCE GROWN THEY GENERALLY MOVE THROUGH LIFE WITHOUT HAVING TO WONDER IF THEIR BRAINS FUNCTION IN THE SAME WAY AS OTHERS DO.

NEURODIVERGENCE IS THE TERM FOR PEOPLE WHOSE BRAINS FUNCTION DIFFERENTLY IN ONE OR MORE WAYS THAN IS CONSIDERED STANDARD OR TYPICAL.

THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT WAYS THAT NEURODIVERGENCE MANIFESTS, RANGING FROM VERY MILD WAYS THAT MOST PEOPLE WOULD NEVER NOTICE TO MORE OBVIOUS WAYS THAT LEAD TO A PERSON BEHAVING DIFFERENTLY THAN IS STANDARD IN OUR SOCIETY.

NEURODIVERGENT PEOPLE EXPERIENCE, INTERACT WITH AND INTERPRET THE WORLD IN UNIQUE WAYS.

THIS CONCEPT CAN HELP REDUCE STIGMA AROUND LEARNING AND THINKING DIFFERENCES

FORMALLY CONSIDERED A PROBLEM OR ABNORMAL, SCIENTISTS HAVE COME TO UNDERSTAND THAT NEURODIVERGENCE CAN HAVE MANY BENEFITS. WITH A SHIFT, PRACTITIONERS ARE NO LONGER TREATING NEURODIVERGENCE AS AN ILLNESS. INSTEAD THEY ARE VIEWING THEM AS DIFFERENT METHODS OF LEARNING AND PROCESSING INFORMATION.

SRTRIVING FOR ACCEPTANCE

ONCE WE START TO UNDERSTAND AND ALLOW FOR THESE DIFFERENCES. RECOGNISING THAT OF COURSE EVERYONE’S BRAIN HAS THE CAPACITY TO BE DIFFERENT AND AS UNIQUE AS OUR FINGERPRINTS. THE NEXT STEP HAS TO BE ACCEPTANCE.

THAT’S OUR ULTIMATE GOAL HERE AT YOUR WEDDINGOLOGY. LET’S STRIVE FOR ACCEPTANCE. IN THE PROCESS; LET’S TRY TO LISTEN AND LEARN FROM EACH OTHER AND THE COUPLES WE MEET AND HELP ALONG THE WAY.

ONCE WE UNDERSTAND THAT ALL OF OUR BRAINS HAVE THE CAPACITY OF WORKING SLIGHTLY DIFFERENTLY, IN TURN LEADING TO HOW PEOPLE PERCEIVE THINGS OR INDEED WHAT MAKES THEM COMFORTABLE. WE CAN OFTEN MAKE SMALL CHANGES WITHIN OUR BUSINESSES AND HOW WE INTERACT WITH OUR CLIENTS THAT WILL MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE

FIND AND SHARE IDEAS TO SEE HOW SMALL CHANGES CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE.

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TYPES OF NEURODIVERGENCE

BECAUSE THE IDEA OF NEURODIVERGENCE HAS GROWN TO ENCOMPASS A RANGE OF WAYS THAT SOME BRAINS WORK DIFFERENTLY THAN OTHERS, IT SHOULDN’T BE SUPRISING TO LEARN THAT THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT WAYS NEURODIVERGENCE MANIFESTS.

YOU MAY NOT OF HEARD OF ALL THE DIFFERENT TYPES, BUT CHANCES ARE YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH SOME. THESE ARE SOME OF THE MOST WELL KNOWN EXAMPLES……CLICK THROUGH TO LEARN JUST A LITTLE MORE OF HOW THESE NEURODIVERGENT TRAITS CAN EFFECT PLANNING A WEDDING AND EFFECT THE EXPERIENCES OF THE BIG DAY ITSELF.

  • MORE NEURODIVERGENT TERMS YOU MAY WISH TO LEARN MORE ABOUT

  • HYPERLEXIA

  • DYSGRAPHIA

  • DYSCALCULIA

  • DYSPHEMIA

  • LEARNING DIFFICULTIES

  • TOURETTES SYNDROME

  • OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER (OCD)

  • SYNESTHESIA

  • DOWNS SYNDROME

  • EPILEPSY

  • BIPOLAR DISORDER

  • BOARDER LINE PERSONALITY DISORDER

  • DIGEORGE SYNDROME

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