If you’ve stumbled across this blog, odds are you’ve heard of neurodivergence. There’s also a chance that you associate this term with ADHD, Autism, or both. The limits of this assumption absolutely make sense and may very well be more-or-less correct for the majority of people using the term in their usual routine. But the neurodivergent umbrella is a lot more expansive than most people realize. The term neurotypical arose in the 1990s as a way to shift the narrative around those with...

The world's newest buzzword: AI It’s hard to get through a conversation these days without someone mentioning a recent conversation with “chat” (ChatGPT, OpenAI’s LLM software), or explaining why they always say thank you to any given AI, or feeling the need to justify their use (or boycott) of LLMs. It’s a huge conversation, and even the 0.01% of people who know as much as can be known about artificial intelligence are unsure of what the future will bring. Probably unsurprisingly, that’s not...

Today in the West, or at least in my little corner of Southern Ontario, mindfulness seems largely synonymous with stillness and seems to be consistently linked to meditation. The word recalls images of people in quiet rooms, legs crossed, thoughts gone... peace achieved. For a lot of neurodivergent folks, including myself, this ideal feels difficult, if not straight unrealistic or absurd. We tell ourselves things like “that sounds amazing, I just know I could never do it,” or we try it once...