Neurodiversity Understanding Day
Thursday 5 November 2026
Understanding: what we need. For every neurodivergent person, with or without a diagnosis.
What does your brain need?
Ask it at work, at school and at home. Anyone can answer, with or without a diagnosis.
Be one of the first. We show the count once five of us have joined.
For every
neurodivergent person.
You belong here, with or without a diagnosis.
- Autistic
- ADHD
- AuDHD
- Dyslexic
- Dyspraxic
- Dyscalculic
- Dysgraphic
- Tourette’s
- OCD
- Sensory processing
- Auditory processing
- Developmental language disorder
- Acquired brain injury
- Twice exceptional
- Self identified
- And more
Neurodiversity Understanding Day
When the day is
5November 2026
The first Thursday of November, every year.
- 5 November 2026
We announce the day and open the conversation.
Neurodivergent people tell us what it should ask for, guided by a paid neurodivergent group.
- 21 October 2027
Think Neurodiversity.
Our gathering two weeks before the day, where neurodivergent people agree the November list. [TO CONFIRM: city]
- 4 November 2027
The first full day.
We ask what our brains need at work, at school and at home, and organisations on the Register show what they have changed.
Two days.
One account.
One account works on both days, and on the Library, Learn and the shop.
Autistic Pride Day
18 June 2027
Pride: who we are. Autistic people's own day, on 18 June, in 22 countries.
The Commitment Register
Who promised to ask, and to act.
One Register holds both lists of asks. Organisations on it promise to act on our cards, and each year we tell them whether we got what we asked for.
Words, defined our way.
The Neurodiversity Dictionary. Twenty six words, in four colours.
