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Alvar Lagerlöf

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Hey folks, Alvar here! Currently I'm very into React and declarative UIs in general, but I'm also learning design and how to blog.

My story as a developer starts with a $2 computer from a flea market, which you can read more about on my website!

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Looking for feedback on website combatting misconceptions about mental health

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Neurodiversity Wiki is a new crowd-sourced wiki that educates and combats misconceptions about various neurological conditions like OCD, ADHD, Autism, Bipolar and more.

The level of knowledge about these conditions is still generally very low. Because of that, people are often seen in the wrong way or mistreated. We're a group of people writing from our life experiences to help everyone understand us.

We're looking for feedback on our existing content from anyone, and help improve or create new pages from people knowledgeable about neurodiversity. Would love to hear from you!

https://neurodiversity.wiki

Alvar Lagerlöf

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Wrote about using the new @next/font with TailwindCSS

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Started Apr 12, 2022 ago

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Today I’m launching neurodiversity.wiki, a crowdsourced project fighting misconceptions about mental health conditions like ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, Autism and more. There are a few reasons for this:

First, the neurodivergent community experiences a lot of misinformation on social media. The project was only about OCD at first, but we realized it could expand to cover misinformation on other conditions. There was no reason to silo it to different websites, so we made this.

The second reason is that our content is written by people actually experiencing the conditions. For everyone, by neurodiverse people. We were done feeling misrepresented by certain organizations and research.

The third reason is that we’re global by default. Feedback comes from all corners of the world. Our first version is in English, but translated pages are in the roadmap. Our crowdsourced and internet-first nature makes this possible.

Check it out, and tell me what you think!

https://neurodiversity.wiki

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