"This is when I began to understand neurodiversity, because I couldn’t tell my left from my right."
[BBC Sounds R4 April 3rd 2025 This Cultural Life - Abi Morgan about 3'20" into interview]
Once upon stating that you couldn't tell your left from your right or being confused between left and right was regarded simply as a statement of fact. Now apparently it has the additional label 'neurodiversity'. What needs to be asked is, how does labelling left-right confusion as neurodivergent add anything new to the phenomenon? Does it in anyway 'explain' the confusion. However, in so far as the confusion is 'caused' by an unacknowledged mismatch between the writing and the wright hand it is only neurodivergent in respect of one being biologically left adept rather than right adept (or vice versa) The 'confusion' or 'problem' is readily resolved by identifying and then acknowledging the mismatch!





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