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Danyl McLauchlan joins Kim to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers. This week, how neurodiverse really are we?
McLauchlan has taken a few 'are you autistic' tests online in his time, he writes on The Spinoff with the answer always, "slightly, in some ways, but mostly no."
Scientists have long known that in our heads we think and see things differently. Danyl doesn't feel 'cognitively normal' but is sceptical of a binary answer that places people as either neurotypical or neurodivergent. He's been thinking about neurodiversity as it relates to everyone from the characters in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels to the brains of tech disruptors like Peter Thiel.
Danyl is the author of two novels and his first essay collection, Tranquillity and Ruin, was published last year by Victoria University Press.
A scene from HBO's screen adaptation of Elena Ferrante's 'My Brilliant Friend' Photo: HBO
