Ally’s Reviews > ADHD Confessions: Rousseau as self-help > Status Update

"Rousseau never viewed his unusual qualities of mind as a defect. Indeed, in his introduction to the Confessions, he celebrates their rarity as something which makes them good in and of themselves. His words could almost serve as a slogan for those campaigning for autism and ADHD to be treated as neurological variations rather than disorders. “If I am not better,” he writes, “at least I am different.”