Diverse discussions of neurodiversity and diagnostic uncertainty

Do these authorities offer ideas that move us forward?

I read two opinion articles about neurodiversity recently that I think merit consideration by readers of Special Education Today. These editorials appeared in the context of continuing and increasing socio-cultural interest in attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder and autism, as shown in this graphic.

Frequency of searches of “ADHD” and “autism” over time. Date and graph from https://trends.googole.com as of 22 August 2026. Who knows what happened around the time of that spike in the red data path?