Flourishing for All: Inclusion in Wellbeing Science

Key points

Global wellbeing studies rarely include disability or neurodiversity data.

Inclusive environments improve wellbeing for families, schools, and workplaces.

Autistic flourishing reveals new ways to define happiness and purpose.

The Global Flourishing Study (Johnson, et al., 2024) was hailed as one of the most ambitious undertakings in modern social science. Over 207,000 participants, 22 countries, six core domains of wellbeing — all aimed at answering one timeless question: What contributes to a life well-lived?

The study’s reach is extraordinary. It measures happiness , health, purpose, virtue, relationships, and financial stability across 23 diverse countries. It’s a milestone in the growing global movement to understand human flourishing.

And yet, amid all the precision