Like much of my life, I did not set out to become an advocate for children.

I stumbled into it. Twice widowed with young children,

and unexpectedly inheriting three preschools,

I found myself responsible not just for care,

but for understanding how children actually learn.

The uncomfortable truth was this:

I had no idea.

What I did have was a background in immunology.

I understood systems, signalling, thresholds, and unintended consequences.

I understood inflammation.

I understood what happens when environments change faster than biology can adapt.

And I recognised the same pattern playing out in cognition.

What we are witnessing now is not scientific progress

but an unregulated explosion of pop psychology

Seductive, moralised, and dangerously confident.

It is misleading vulnerable parents, teachers, and young people,

often under the banner of compassion,

while quietly abandoning biology, development, and evidence.

Rethinking Neurodiversity is my attempt to slow the conversation down.

To replace slogans with mechanisms.

To ask whether the story we are telling ourselves

about minds, childhood, and difference is actually true

and if not, what the cost of that error might be.

If you are uneasy with the current narrative

but can’t quite articulate why,

you are probably asking the right question.

Join me.

Read carefully.

Disagree rigorously.

And help reclaim a serious conversation about children,

Before ideology finishes the job that environment began.