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The Neurodivergent Professor: Liberation through Learning, Not Education
Sol Smith, author
Sol Smith has been a professor for 20 years, but he has spent his entire career feeling like a
fraud. Passing school was easy for him, but he never followed the rules; teaching is a pleasure,
but he can’t do it the way he was taught to. After two decades, he discovered that he is autistic,
dyslexic, and ADHD. By unravelling this revelation, he has finally realized that his way of
thinking differently is unique, pleasurable, and forgiving. Sol teaches his students and his readers
to abandon the mould that they are aiming for, stop struggling with an impossible future, and to
embrace the wonder and awe in the world with open eyes. The subjects of what it means to really
learn are deeply contrasted with our Education Industry, to expose the gentle ways in which we
are always encouraged to both conform and to make an identity stuck in the approval and
separation of others. Ultimately, readers are invited to join his mindset and point of view,
liberating themselves from the categories and values that contribute to their suffering.