Understanding Neurodivergence with Katie Rose Guest Pryal

Understanding Neurodivergence with Katie Rose Guest Pryal

Katie Rose Guest Pryal joins the Writing Your Resilience Podcast to take a deep dive into what neurodiversity is and how it impacts writers.

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Show Notes for Understanding Neurodivergence with Katie Rose Guest Pryal

Katie Rose Guest Pryal joins the Writing Your Resilience Podcast to take a deep dive into what neurodiversity is and how it impacts writers.

Here are a few questions to ponder as you listen to this episode: What do you know about neurodiversity? Do you consider yourself to be neurodivergent? If you are, how does that impact the way you set up your writing life, what you write about, and how you see the world?

Katie Rose Guest Pryal, J.D., Ph.D., is a bipolar-autistic author, keynote speaker, law professor, and expert in mental health and neurodiversity. Her books include Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education, the IPPY-Gold-winning Even If You’re Broken: Bodies, Boundaries, and Mental Health, and A Light in the Tower: A New Reckoning with Mental Health in Higher Education. She writes frequently for national magazines and speaks around the country about mental health and neurodiversity. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Episode Highlights

2:00 Defining Neurodiversity
11: 00 The Power of a Diagnosis
15:00 The Problem of Overwhelm
20:00 Reclaiming the Word Selfish
26:00 Learn to Cope
31:00 Fitting into the Narrow Band of “Normal”
34:45 Writing and Neurodiversity

Items mentioned during this episode:

Katie’s post about overwhelm: https://www.instagram.com/p/CzbTVgJgc5L/
Compton Cowboys: https://www.instagram.com/comptoncowboys/

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