Neurodiversity for Dummies Zoom Session, featuring seven participants: Ranga Jayaraman, a mature South Asian man with glasses; Khushboo Chabria, a South Asian woman with long black hair; John Marble, a white man with brown hair and a goatee, Shannon Rosa, a white woman with bobbed red hair and glasses; Daniel Hodges, a white man with black hair and a goatee; Steven Kapp, a white man with short black hair, glasses, and a beard; and Eric Garcia, a Latine man with short black hair and the tail of a gray striped cat sticking up between his face and the camera.

“Neurodiversity for Dummies”: A Community Conversation

December 2, 2023December 2, 2023 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

The book Neurodiversity for Dummies is happening because there really is a dearth of accessible information and resources. This listening session is a conversation about what neurodiversity is, and what neurodivergent people need to thrive.

Book cover with a white background. Large colorful letters occupying most of the image reads "We're Not Broken". Smaller black text underneath reads "Changing the Autism Conversation". Smaller colorful text underneath reads, "Eric Garcia".

Autism

We’re Not Broken: Talking with Autistic Journalist Eric Garcia About Changing the Autism Conversation

September 4, 2021July 27, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

“The way we diagnose kids overwhelmingly leads to Black and Latino kids getting diagnosed with behavioral disorders instead of autism. It also excludes a lot of women and femme people, to say nothing of transgender males and nonbinary people. We also ignore a lot of people for whom English is a second language.”