Informaticon:Neurodiversityfrom The Word Spy, 5/18/04, by Paul McFedries

The neurodiversity movement is based on the belief that there is no such thing as "normal" when it comes to the human mental landscape . . . . Together we display a wide variety of neurological behaviors and abilities, and most of us exhibit some form of mental "disorder" from time to time, albeit in non-debilitating — or "subclinical" — form: mild depression, temporary anxiety, and so on. We accept that the world is populated with people who are tall and small; who are big-boned and bird-boned; who are ecto-, meso-, and endomorphic. So, as the theory goes, doesn't it make sense to also accept that the world is populated with people who exhibit at least as wide a variety of neurological traits?