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"Neurocurious" describes someone who is actively exploring their own neurocognitive functioning and the broader concepts of neurodiversity. This session will talk about OHora's own path of consciousness exploration from experiments with LSD in his early 20's leading to insights that directly influenced his picture book making. In a quest to celebrate weirdness as a positive attribute, it lead to the creation of a character that teachers and librarians used as a way of talking about autism. Positive portrayals of autism in children's media are scarce even though one in twenty three kids are diagnosed with autism or some form of neurodiversity. It was through this experience that he began to think about creating television media specifically targeted to and celebrating neurodiversity with the explicit goal of spreading empathy and awareness of the whole spectrum of humanity.