Built for us, by us.

Most of what gets written about ADHD, autism, dyslexia and the rest was built around research on white boys. The checklists, the stereotypes, the "classic signs" all come from there. So when a Black girl is dysregulated, she is "grown." When a Black woman forgets, she is "unprofessional." When a Black child cannot read, it is "behavior." The pattern repeats from kindergarten through the workplace, and the result is that we are diagnosed later, believed less, and left to call our struggles personal failure.

Black Neurodivergence is a place to change that. We write about how neurodivergence actually shows up in our lives: in school, at work, in our families, in church, in our hair routines and our group chats. We cite our sources so you can check them. And we talk to each other like adults who have been through it.

What you'll find here

• Plain-language explanations of each neurodivergence, with definitions pulled from the institutions that study them.
• The Black-specific breakdown: how the same condition gets read differently depending on who has it.
• Research you can fact-check. Every article lists its sources.
• Community. A place where you do not have to explain yourself first.

Who is behind this

Black Neurodivergence is created by Brianne Saturdays, a Black Neurodivergent woman and the creator behind Brianne Saturdays, the Happy Brain Community and Saturdays Book Club. This site is the home for her work on Black Neurodivergence specifically.

You were never too much. You were never not enough.

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