Library at the Dock

Name: How is Neurodiversity (mis)Understood and (mis)Treated in the Law and by Psychiatry?
Start: 2025-11-20T18:00:00+11:00
End: 2025-11-20T20:00:00+11:00
Location: Library at the Dock

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November 2025
November 20 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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

Library at the Dock Docklands, Victoria, Australia

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 […]

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