Life Story Work with neurodiverse people

Stories and storytelling can be especially meaningful for neurodiverse people as they seek to make sense of a world which can often seem not built for them. 

Neurodiverse people can experience exclusion and a society which primarily views them through an ablest lens, resulting in people feeling targeted by biomedical research and interventions rather than equal partners with rights and agency. 

Life Story Work can help reframe narratives, incorporating someone’s social stories to support cognition as part of a person-centred tool, one reflecting respect and accommodation for individual neurodiversity.