L.A. WEEKLY: Tell us about your childhood. CHANCE RASPBERRY: I was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1981. I moved to North Hollywood [in] 1983 and lived in L.A. ever since. As a kid I loved to draw. I ...

There’s a growing push to focus on our brain differences, not deficits. This wider view of "normal" is a big part of something called neurodiversity. Advocates hope the idea expands how we think of ...

Publicly occupied spaces can be overwhelming. Airports, schools, stadiums, and workplaces all feature environments with visual chaos that can be disorienting and stressful for individuals, especially ...

Neurodiversity first emerged as a concept in the 1990s, arising from discussions in an autistic-run online group (Dekker, 2020). While it has taken many years of advocacy to bring the notion to the ...