Sunday, November 8th, 2026

# Remembering the fallen. Lest we forget. # On my neurodiversity Growing up through the 70s and into the 80s, there was no talk about neurodiversity. Although certain conditions had been described years before, they didn't enter into mainstream conversation until the late 80s/early 90s. Even then they were discussed with very negative connotations — disease, disorder. I remember when the movie Rain Man came out depicting a specific instance of autism but all anyone talked about was savants as if that was the only way it affected people. The word autism was never used. The early headlines about ADHD (or ADD as it was) described naughty, disruptive school boys who needed to be controlled. As a young kid, I can remember being described as shy, awkward, nervous, a daydreamer, wouldn't shut up once you got me going about something, always had the energy to run everywhere rather than walk. Later, I was called odd, weird, obsessive, dangerous, rebellious, nerdy, nuts, extra — a lot of…

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