The Great Brain Bake-Off: Why Your Noggin Might Be Undercooked, Overbaked, or Just Deliciously Different...
Reporting from Inside the Flour-Dusted Mind of Modern Psychology WELCOME TO THE NEURAL CARNIVAL—PLEASE MIND THE SENSORY OVERLOAD Once upon a neurotypical Tuesday, someone in a sleek boardroom decided that “normal brains” were the gold standard and everyone else was a defective knockoff—like off-brand cereal in a crumpled box. Autism? ADHD? Clearly mistakes. Disorders. Deviations. Dangerous. Probably contagious via eye contact. And so, for decades, the mainstream marched on, painting neurological differences with the same grayscale palette they use for printer manuals and political speeches. But now—hold onto your dopamine—because the neurodivergent are rising like sourdough starters during a power outage. And they’re here to say: stop diagnosing us like malfunctioning toasters. We’re not broken. We’re just wired differently —which, last we checked, is also the secret sauce behind the Eiffel Tower, quantum computing, and whoever invented ice cream. The neurodiversity movement, that...