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How Neurodivergence Leads To Cultural Wealth

Published 1 week ago

Description

We autistics have a type of wealth, or capital, as a result of adapting, coping and growing as individuals with neurodivergent challenges. Essy Knopf, a therapist and author, has developed the Neurodivergent Cultural Wealth Framework, a valuable way to look at our neurodivergence. In this episode he explains what makes up the framework and how it enriches our lives with:

Self-Knowledge Capital
Adaptation Capital
Pattern Recognition Capital
Community Capital
Resistance Capital
Embodied Capital
Passion Capital
Identity Capital
Meaning-Making Capital

This framework goes beyond deficit views of autistics and neurodivergents and explains how we have developed forms of knowledge, adaptation, perspective, and wisdom that are often overlooked when attention is focused solely on those deficits. This framework gives us a whole new way of looking at our lives.

Website: https://www.essyknopf.com

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New book: Unscramble Your Brain: A Neurodivergent Guide to Getting Things Done, Your Way

Other books by Essy Knopf available at https://www.essyknopf.com and book retailers:

Book: Unmasking: What We Lose by Pretending and How to Get It Back

Neurodivergent Game Plan

Neurodivergent Game Plan: The Workbook

The Neuroaffirming Therapy Handbook

Unmasking

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