How concepts of value around disabilities need to be reassessed

1. The
Neuro-Diversity
Advantage
Specialisterne Founder, Thorkil Sonne with his son.
Presented by
Daryl Wallace

2. Our exclusion of neural diversity
today is almost universal.
In the last century, we have
retrogressed in our inclusion of
people who display neural diversity.
“Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will
move the whole world”
Archimedes
2nd Century B.C.

3. ● We present pioneers ahead of their time.
● Each faced their own unique flaws that led to exclusion and mobbing.
● Each is considered by psychiatric professionals today to exhibit Neurodiversities mostly Autism.

4. If so, Leonardo Di Vinci would be a consistent under-performer. The polymath rarely
finished his works and displayed low EQ with many non Neurotypical behaviors
Do you base leadership performance on completed work and EQ?

5. Newton.
A remote
worker?
Forever in
“solitary
persistent
thought”

6. Boyle.
Complained about the
tendency for his thoughts to
roam in an uncontrolled way.
He called this a “habitude of
raving”
He was a physicist, architect &
inventor and one of the
founders of modern chemistry.
How might his genius today be
excluded due to probable
ADHD?

8. Marie Currie. First woman to win Nobel Prize. “A natural outsider”.
Would she be included or excluded in today’s work culture.

9. “Neurodiversity may be every
bit as crucial for the human
race as biodiversity is for life in
general. Who can say what
form of wiring will prove best at
any given moment? Cybernetics
and computer culture, for
example, may favor a
somewhat autistic cast of
mind.”
The Atlantic Sept 1998

10. “The world
needs
different kinds
of minds to
work together”
Prof. Temple
Grandin

11. “high in conscientiousness and low in agreeableness”

12. Time For Reframing
Disabilities
Disorders
Deficit
Dysfunction
Differentiated abilities
Differently wired
Surplus
Superfunctional

13. "Neurotypical syndrome is a neurobiological
disorder characterized by preoccupation with
social concerns, delusions of superiority, and
obsession with conformity."

15. Autism: How My Unstoppable Mother Proved the Experts Wrong
Chris Varney at TEDxMelbourne

16. Do You Know Anyone Else With Neural Diversity?
● Einstein
● Wittgenstein
● Mozart
● Nikola Tesla
Isn't it time we stopped treating people with
disabilities as if they were, not less, but differently
abled?