Hacker News with Generative AI: Neurodiversity

Are labels like autism and ADHD more constraining than liberating? (theconversation.com)
Irish (and now UK-based) neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan enters this battlefield with her timely book, The Age of Diagnosis. O’Sullivan is a seasoned clinician and science writer who has seen firsthand how the diagnostic landscape has changed. We have taken diagnosis too far, she argues, and our cultures, health systems and selves are suffering the consequences.

Mental Health, Neurodiversity, Diagnosis, Culture, Healthcare

5 points by PaulHoule 21 days ago | 2 comments

Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodivergent people with tasks (goblin.tools)

Accessibility, Neurodiversity, Productivity Tools, Software

346 points by ValentineC 33 days ago | 234 comments

The sudden rise of AuDHD: autism and ADHD (2024) (theguardian.com)
Just over a decade ago, autism and ADHD were thought to be mutually exclusive. But in recent years, all that has changed

Autism, ADHD, Mental Health, Psychology, Neurodiversity

14 points by rossant 50 days ago | 5 comments

The Cost of Being Invisible: Dis-Inclusion's Toll on Neurodivergent Employees (workdesign.com)
Imagine walking into a workplace every day where you feel unseen, not because you lack talent, drive or value, but because the environment isn’t designed with you in mind.

Neurodiversity, Workplace Culture, Inclusion, Accessibility

23 points by MilnerRoute 86 days ago | 11 comments

An Economic and Rational Choice Approach to the Autism Spectrum, Neurodiversity (2011) (ssrn.com)
This paper considers an economic approach to autistic individuals, as a window for understanding autism, as a new and growing branch of neuroeconomics (how does behavior vary with neurology?), and as a foil for better understanding non-autistics and their cognitive biases.

Economics, Autism, Neurodiversity, Cognitive Bias

5 points by FergusArgyll 150 days ago | 0 comments

Researchers are questioning if ADHD should be seen as a disorder (economist.com)
Researchers are questioning if ADHD should be seen as a disorder

Health, Neurodiversity, Psychology, Medicine

29 points by uxhacker 176 days ago | 39 comments

Ask HN: Learning to interact correctly in online communities as a neurodivergent (ycombinator.com)
I often encounter negative reactions in online communities, such as downvotes, being mistaken for a troll, and being misunderstood constantly.

Neurodiversity, Online Communities, Social Interaction, Communication

26 points by TheLoneCat 182 days ago | 34 comments

Neurodivergence and Accountability in Free Software (drewdevault.com)
In November of last year, I wrote Richard Stallman’s political discourse on sex, which argues that Richard Stallman, the founder of and present-day voting member of the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), endorses and advocates for a harmful political agenda which legitimizes adult attraction to minors, consistently defends adults accused of and convicted of sexual crimes with respect to minors, and more generally erodes norms of consent and manipulates language regarding sexual harassment and sexual assault

Free Software, Ethics, Politics, Neurodiversity

23 points by als0 213 days ago | 6 comments

The Neurodivergent Engineer's Strategy for Success (ieee.org)

Neurodiversity, Engineering, Success Strategies

25 points by jnord 283 days ago | 8 comments

Ask HN: Fellow neurodivergents, do you pair better with LLMs than neurotypicals? (ycombinator.com)

Neurodiversity, AI, User Experience

12 points by thoughtpeddler 288 days ago | 27 comments

Ask HN: Tech opportunities for neurodivergent people with learning difficulties (ycombinator.com)

Jobs, Neurodiversity, Accessibility

18 points by CuriousRose 327 days ago | 11 comments