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This week is Neurodiversity Celebration Week, which in essence, is a celebration of uniqueness. I started working with neurodivergent people in 1986. Of course, that was several decades before the term Neurodiversity existed. In fact, at that time there wasn’t even the notion of an autistic spectrum. To be diagnosed as autistic, you had to tick 9 out of 12 items on a checklist. Back then, those people who we now recognise as being neurodivergent were unkindly described as weird, slow or mentally handicapped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, 40 years later (ouch!) I still have the privilege of working with wonderful, unique people. The recognition of neurodiversity is transforming the way we regard ourselves and others. Adults who would never have had a diagnosis as a child growing up in the 70s and 80s, feel relief and liberty through the awareness of neurodiversity; it explains everything about their struggles in the past. My husband tells the story of how he was in the ‘Remedial Class’ in school because he struggled with reading and writing, would crumble if asked to read aloud in class and was put in the ‘About France’ class because he couldn’t learn a different language. But he survived. He went on to get a good honors degree, which led to a career working with numbers, not words. He figured out for himself how to overcome his challenges and build up his self confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this week, I am joining my voice to shout about Celebrating Uniqueness. I have been spending some time putting together a short presentation and would like to share it with you here. I hope that you will catch some of my passion as you read it. If you enjoy this blog, please add a comment and click to be notified next time I post a new one. Have a great day, Sharon x<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God\u00a0made us all different and he loves our uniqueness!<\/strong>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psalm 139:\u00a0“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother\u2019s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whoever<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n