What is the Neuronormometer?

The Neuronormometer is a tool for spotting what helps everyone take part at work with their own way of functioning, and what pushes some people to over-adapt, wear themselves out or withdraw.

It is not only about the most serious situations. Unclear instructions, expecting immediate spoken answers, adjustments that have to be justified again and again, exhaustion kept to yourself… These often normalised practices are part of the same continuum.

The green zone shows what supports participation: clear information, the possibility to adjust your surroundings or your pace, adjustments built together.

The orange zone shows what places the effort on the individual: needs acknowledged only on certain conditions, difficulties that must be justified, adapting at the cost of your energy.

The red zone shows what devalues or excludes: ridicule, being discredited, adjustments taken away, being left out, and even being pushed out of the organisation.

There is no need to wait until the red zone to change a practice.

Why this tool?

To help neurodivergent people put words to what they experience at work.

To help teams, managers and HR ask who carries the effort of adapting, and what they can adjust together.

It is not up to individuals to keep adapting more and more.It is up to working practices to make room for our different ways of functioning.

Who created it?

The Neuronormometer was created by Fiona Jestin, peer supporter, facilitator and trainer in mental health and neurodiversity, who is herself autistic and has ADHD. It draws on her lived experience and her work with organisations.

It is inspired by Sonny Jane Wise’s Wheel of Neuronormativity and by Le misogynomètre by Fanny Terrisse and Lola Pernot.

It is an awareness-raising and discussion tool, not a scientifically validated scale.

Free to share and use internally, without modification and with credit to the source.

📥 Free download: 2-page PDF.

🖨️ Would you like to print it for your team? A print-ready version with crop marks is available on request: contact me.

🌍 Également disponible en français : Le neuronormomètre.

🤝 Would you like to use it with your team? I offer workshops and awareness sessions on neurodiversity at work: explore my services.