Neurodivergent children are over-represented in the youth justice system in England and Wales. Prior to justice involvement, neurodivergent children experience a range of structural harms and inequalities from the education and healthcare systems that disable and criminalise them. Drawing on empirical data, this chapter seeks to consider the voices of neurodivergent children and their families about their experiences prior to justice involvement. The author argues that the processes of disabling and criminalising neurodivergent children take place through being labelled as ‘naughty’, isolation and exclusion, and not providing the appropriate support until becoming justice-involved. The very agencies that should be protecting a child’s welfare needs are setting them on a path to a range of poor outcomes, including criminalisation, way before the criminal justice system becomes involved in their young lives.