How is Neurodiversity (mis)Understood and (mis)Treated in the Law and by Psychiatry?

To what extent is neurodiversity pathologised and criminalised in Victoria? Why are neurodiverse people policed, incarcerated, misdiagnosed and institutionalised (and why do we have our human rights curtailed) at much higher rates than neurotypical people?

For those of us who have been arrested and incarcerated or admitted and institutionalised, it seems obvious neither our criminal justice nor our mental health systems are neurodiversity-informed or -responsive. Neurodivergent folk are significantly over-represented in Victoria’s mental health and criminal justice systems, constituting at least 50% of all people incarcerated or institutionalised. Many of us who find ourselves in institutional care are un- or mis-diagnosed, and our treatment may be profoundly inappropriate as a consequence.

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