If done well, knowledge about neurodiversity can elevate the practice of loving our neighbors to a higher level. Until now, the biggest obstacle to loving others was thinking “the other person is an idiot.” We’re on the right track. The so-called “bad kids” have now softened into “neurodivergent kids.” But it goes further: the gesture of mapping and understanding individual ways of functioning can help us realize in the end that, somewhere, everyone is a little “different,” and if that’s the case, we can learn to love each other as we are.