There’s been a huge amount of debate and discussion in recent years about neurodiversity. Here, we explore what it is and why it matters when we’re thinking about how to reduce alcohol harm.

All of us see the world in different ways. In the past, some of those differences have been seen as difficulties or disabilities, but in the 1990s Australian sociologist Judy Singer and others popularised the term “neurodiversity” with the aim of increasing acceptance and inclusion of people who experience and interact with the world in different ways...