Over the past decade, the neurodiversity movement has transformed the mental health discourse. Originally developed as a challenge to pathologizing narratives around such psychiatric diagnoses as autism and ADHD, its “umbrella” has come to cover an increasingly large and diverse portion of the population. While the neurodiversity paradigm contains a range of different perspectives, its mainstream form is characterized by the claim that the experiences and patterns of behavior falling under its umbrella are best understood as expressions of neurological difference, a natural part of human variation, as opposed to representing some sort of dysfunction, disorder, or disease process as psychiatry has long held. In certain respects, this shift has been valuable: it has challenged stigma associated with the experiences and behaviors that come under such diagnostic labels; it has also promoted an expansion and acceptance of human difference more generally; and, finally, it has called into question the central psychiatric premise that psychological distress and impairment are properly thought of as “medical disorders.” Perhaps most impactfully, the language of neurodiversity has provided a sense …