Hacker News with Generative AI: Neurodiversity

Running Windows.exe on a Linux Brain: The Sysadmin's Guide to Neurodivergence (leantime.io)
TL;DR: Your brain is a custom Linux distro trying to run Windows software. Understanding this helps you optimize your mental infrastructure for better performance and longevity.
Neurodiversity, Productivity, Mental Health, Operating Systems
10 points by leantime-io 17 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Neuro Tools, a collection of tools to help neurodivergent people (neurotools.app)
A collection of tools for your brain.
Accessibility, Neurodiversity, Tools, Software
22 points by martin-buur 24 days ago | 9 comments
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 48 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 60 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 77 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 114 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 177 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 204 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 209 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 240 days ago | 6 comments
The Neurodivergent Engineer's Strategy for Success (ieee.org)
Neurodiversity, Engineering, Success Strategies
25 points by jnord 311 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 315 days ago | 27 comments
Ask HN: Tech opportunities for neurodivergent people with learning difficulties (ycombinator.com)
Jobs, Neurodiversity, Accessibility
18 points by CuriousRose 355 days ago | 11 comments