JMW Turner’s mother deserves respect and understanding too | Brief letters

Exploring neurodivergence | Volunteer plants | Frankie the flamingo | Thriving jazz | Young letter writersI’m glad we’re starting to look at historical figures through the lens of neurodivergence (Documentary explores whether JMW Turner may have been neurodivergent, 10 November). But why give JMW Turner the benefit of 21st-century advances in neuroscience and not afford the same courtesy to his mother, Mary, who was “believed to have had a psychiatric disorder and would fly int