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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Tara Cobham

Majority of Britons may now be identifying themselves as neurodivergent, psychologist says

A majority of Britons might now be identifying themselves as neurodivergent, a leading psychologist has said.

Francesca Happé – who is professor of cognitive neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London – explained that more people have been either seeking medical diagnoses for conditions like autism, dyslexia or dyspraxia, or even self-diagnosing, as a result of decreased stigma.

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