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Katie Rose Guest Pryal J.D., Ph.D.

About

Katie Rose Guest Pryal, J.D., Ph.D., is a bipolar-autistic author, keynote speaker, law professor, and expert in mental health and neurodiversity. Her books include Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education (Blue Crow 2017), the IPPY-Gold-winning Even If You’re Broken: Bodies, Boundaries, and Mental Health (Blue Crow 2019), and A Light in the Tower: A New Reckoning with Mental Health in Higher Education (Kansas 2024). She speaks around the country about mental health and neurodiversity.

Books by Katie Rose Guest Pryal J.D., Ph.D.
Recent Posts
How Isolation Can Harm Creativity
Personal Perspective: Alone time and loneliness are not the same thing. Alone time can be generative and help creativity; loneliness can be destructive.
Autistic Meltdowns Help Me Live a Better Life

Personal Perspective: Contrary to popular belief, autistic meltdowns can help autistic people release emotions in a good way, enabling us to carry on with our lives.

Personal Perspective: Contrary to popular belief, autistic meltdowns can help autistic people release emotions in a good way, enabling us to carry on with our lives.

What Is the Invisible Burden of School Accommodations?

Personal Perspective: Parents and neurodivergent kids who need accommodations in K-12 schools carry an immense invisible burden.

Personal Perspective: Parents and neurodivergent kids who need accommodations in K-12 schools carry an immense invisible burden.

Burnout and Neurodiversity

Burnout seems to hit neurodivergent people harder. But burnout is always an institutional problem, not an individual one. Fixing stressors can improve everyone's health.

Burnout seems to hit neurodivergent people harder. But burnout is always an institutional problem, not an individual one. Fixing stressors can improve everyone's health.

How Anxiety Harms Creativity (And What to Do About It)

When we look at how artists struggle with generalized anxiety disorder, we can learn about how mental illnesses affect creative people and what to do about it.

When we look at how artists struggle with generalized anxiety disorder, we can learn about how mental illnesses affect creative people and what to do about it.

The Struggles and Strengths of Trauma Disorders

Trauma survivors show high sensitivity, empathy, and more, all of which can be both struggles and strengths.

Trauma survivors show high sensitivity, empathy, and more, all of which can be both struggles and strengths.

How Suspicion Feeds Stigma Against Neurodivergent People

Neurodivergent people must deal with the irrational suspicion that they are faking their diagnoses to get special privileges despite all evidence to the contrary.

Neurodivergent people must deal with the irrational suspicion that they are faking their diagnoses to get special privileges despite all evidence to the contrary.