Sensory processing is an essential part of what makes each brain work the way it does. The “worlds” we create are not the same as the worlds inhabited by others. What does neuroscience tell us about the processing of visual, auditory, and olfactory information and how does this help us understand the thoughts and behaviors of our children and ourselves?

In week two, we talk about the cultural assumptions inherent in the concepts of neurodivergent “masking” and “passing”, learn about synesthesia in young children, and read excerpts from M. Remi Yergeau’s Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness and Wendy Mass’ A Mango Shaped Space.