After all, living according to someone’s else benchmark is a bit like eating with their spoon, it never tastes right.

This book explains those things in metaphors that are much more easily understood to a mind like mine.I think Camilla is clearly very intelligent but when it comes to writing I'm not sure this is the field to be in. For example, the 16 different personality types defined in Myers-Briggs, which doesn’t have a great rep these days anyway, gets over-simplified by analogy to less than a handful of protein types. Like the author, I was drawn to study science but this just removed me further from my peers who were more interested in sports and celebrities. but, apart from that it's an excellently, written book with quite funny parts as she has a giggle at herself. Each chapter takes a specific social problem and analyses it using scientific metaphors, from machine learning to proteins, refraction to ergodic theory.

So I wrote for her, and also on behalf of all the other mums out there, and carers and parents, who have a person that they want to understand,” she said.Once you are in the right environment with people that can see how to use the value your neurodiversity brings, you will thrive.

Some of those dear friends have wished away their neurodiversity after difficult encounters at work and heavy criticism. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. She made me think about my life differently and in a way that makes me feel like I can take on the challenge of the human experience. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.When my parents brought me in to be “evaluated” (I had mediocre grades and no friends) I said some pretty bizarre things to the psychologist but he just ignored them because when he tested my IQ it was high so all my other problems were ignored. Each of those people has struggled in the workplace because of how their diversity is perceived, just like Millie struggles with people viewing her as rude or emotional. Early in the chapter, the metaphor works on simple level to give a sense of how inductive and deductive reasoning differ, but there’s no reason why the box needs to be flimsy or the tree sturdy. The title (and blurb) are rather misleading: there isn’t much explaining of humans going on, rather, scientific ideas and principles are roughly applied as coping mechanisms.

Now armed with a PhD in biochemistry, Camilla dismantles our obscure social customs and identifies what it really means to be human using her unique expertise and a language she knows best: science. Indeed, inductive and deductive reasoning both have their place depending on the domain; and more often than not, the most useful mode of thinking combines the two. Machine learning and artificial intelligence can help us build helpful models of the world that use decision trees and divergent thinking to come to better decisions.

It’s within that capacious box that our similarities and differences should be considered – respecting the delicate balance of consensus and individuality which is the essence of being human. Her career and studies have been heavily influenced by her diagnosis and she is driven by her passion for understanding humans, our behaviours and how we work. I will say we do have very different personalities, I'm sure partly innate and partly due to the difference in our ages, resulting diagnosis being more available and likely than when I was eight years old. Millie tackles all this with a sense of humour and understanding even for the people that have misunderstood her. Everything from the title, blurb and cover make it seem like this is going to shed some light on the the reasons why people behave like they do.