How to Thrive When Your Brain is Different

For decades, experts classified people as having “normal” or
“abnormal” brains depending on certain traits. Conditions such as
autism, synesthesia, and sensory processing disorder are considered
“abnormal.” Several years ago, Jenara Nerenberg, a Harvard and
Berkeley-educated writer, entrepreneur, and mother, realized that
type of binary thinking is flawed and miscategorizes many people,
especially women. She went on to found The Neurodiversity Project,
an organization that supports the neurodivergent community, and to
write “Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed For
You.” In her new book, Nerenberg presents a new way to understand
neurodiversity and how it presents differently in women. She also
challenges widely accepted misperceptions of neurodivergent traits.
We talk with Nerenberg about her new book, The Neurodiversity
Project, and her most recent venture, The Interracial Project.