Neurotypical
is a Disease

This is not simply a book about ADHD, autism, or neurodivergence. Neurotypicality is the starting point because it gives us a clean example of what happens when a culture takes the most common pattern, names it the baseline, and begins treating deviation from it as disorder.

From there, the book expands the question. What other versions of “typical” have we inherited without examining them? Typical masculinity. Typical femininity. Typical productivity. Typical intelligence. Typical relationships. Typical careers. Typical families. Typical success. Typical morality. Typical adulthood. Typical ways to communicate, grieve, learn, work, worship, love, and belong.

The argument is not that difference is automatically healthy or that every norm is malicious. The argument is that norms become dangerous when they disappear into the background and begin presenting themselves as nature. Once a construct becomes invisible, conformity starts masquerading as health and deviation starts masquerading as disease.

Part memoir, part philosophy, part psychology, part sociology, part cultural criticism, and part transcribed audio journal, the book uses neurotypicality as a doorway into a larger examination of how societies manufacture normality, reward compliance, pathologize difference, and teach people to abandon themselves in exchange for belonging.