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The Immigrant Experience and Neurodivergence with Sandhya Menon

The Neurodivergent Woman

CHAPTER

The Collectivism of Disability in a Collectivist Culture

Sanjay: As a child, I used to think that I had superpowers because I could feel things and hear things that nobody else could. And at university, when I was learning about the DSM-5, I saw the criteria for ADHD and it just clicked immediately. So where I've landed at is autism is more a personal relationship with my body, whereas ADHD is both a relationship with myBody as well as the way that I interact in the world. Sanjay: When did you first realize that you were neurodivergent? Sanjay: It's not something I really thought about until later on life or like after high school. The idea of my belonging was never questioned no

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