Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether scrolling on your phone or chatting with other parents in the playground, you’ve probably heard the words ‘neurotypical’ ...

I’ve been watching the slow babbling evolution of terms like “neurotypical” and “neurodiversity” with growing repulsion. It’s turned into a predictable social divide. The usage is based entirely on ...

Neurotypical is a developmental term used to describe people with characteristics and traits that are considered typical compared to others. Though neurotypical is not a medical term, medical ...

Language is how we make sense of the world: it gives form to abstract concepts and influences our perception of everything we encounter. So it isn’t surprising that the language we use to describe ...

Back-to-school season is often filled with a mix of excitement and anxiety for students. While this is true for all students, including those who are neurotypical, neurodiverse, or disabled, ...

Neurofluid is a word I thought of a couple of years ago while exploring the tension between "neurotypical" and "neurodivergent" categories. It's been used in other contexts, both to refer to autistic ...

As an autistic woman who has a full time job, lives on my own and even manages to blend in fairly well in social settings when I have the energy, my life has been a series of contradictions. I’ve been ...

Whether scrolling on your phone or chatting with other parents in the playground, you’ve probably heard the words ‘neurotypical’ and ‘neurodivergent’ thrown around lately. But what do these terms mean ...