Key points

To eliminate neurodiversity is to deprive the world of unique perspectives: ideas, genius, artistry, and love.

Difference is not a disease; only those with small minds and shriveled souls would condemn it.

Diversity—neurodiversity—provides strength, resilience, adaptability, and creativity. Why ever eradicate it?

Autism not only speaks, it answers back.

My young friend, Laura Rockefeller, who wrote a brilliant piece on her personal heroine, Temple Grandin, for the essay collection I edited ( Fast Famous Women .) Laura, is a happily married graduate student who also works full time, travels extensively, has a talent for photography, and identifies as neurodiverse. A question Laura posed on her Facebook page “for friendly discussion” grabbed my attention : “Why is our g

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