[Music] Hi, I'm Millie and today I'm going to be reframing your perspective on neurodeiversity. You know, ADHD and autism. I'm someone with both of these and I know firsthand that these neurodeiverse voices need to be heard.Let me ask you something. Have you ever tried focusing in a classroom where the lights are too bright, the clock is ticking too loud, and your brain is thinking about 15 things at once, but nobody else seems to notice. Well, that's what it can feel like for someone like me.But that doesn ...

A very good morning to all of you and uh my gratitude to all those who have been uh in the organizing team and having brought brought me here considering me here to speak about uh a topic which is more of a lifeline to me and even before I proceed I do not speak the UK English or the American English. I speak the Indian English which was taught to me when I was young. So, but I speak from my heart and in some places maybe I use my brain uh because uh the community that I work with typically the um neurodeiv ...

[Music] I often feel that this question is blindly ignored among my fellow peers which is why I'm stepping forward today to ask how does it feel to be neurodyiverged. ent. Well, it's a question without a short answer.My name is Luke White Oak and I have a mental disorder called autism. And I want to show you how that feels for me. But first, we need to find the ethmology of this word.Neuro meaning mind and divergent is just a synonym for different. So, neurode divergence is just to have a different mind. I ...

Good morning everyone. My name is Jesse Sanchez and I'm the co-founder and president of the Neurodiversity Alliance. I'm also a husband, uh, a father of three beautiful kiddos and I'm someone for whom my whole life I've been searching for and I'm now building authentic communities. But see, I probably shouldn't actually be standing here today. My tale is one, statistically speaking, that's supposed to be a cautionary tale. See, my story begins with my mother who fled the grip of the drug cartel where my fat ...

Let me start by asking you all something. Have you at least once in your life, I know you're all very young, but at any point in your life, have you asked yourself this question? And the question is, who am I? Who am I? Sounds like a simple question, right? You see, the moment you're born, you're welcomed into a world that pretty much tells you who you are. You are enrolled into school by the time you're just 3 or 4 years old. And there are these milestones that are set on your path. And you're expected to ...