#neurodiversity movement

[theexodvs]

Given the (warranted) suspicion given towards the disease denialism found in both Christian Science and Scientology, it can be said that if the claims of the neurodiversity movement were attached to organized religion, they too would be constantly lambasted.

[opossum-dyke]

Thoughts on self diagnosed autistics (a love letter)

By the way this post isn't made so someone can debate me this is me screaming my feelings into the void

I support self diagnosed autistics, I always will, the reasons are so clear to me. Everything medical, including diagnosis is so damn expensive, doctors so commonly don't believe people or gaslight people, even more so AFABs and people of color... Im not here to debate this.

Any complaint like that people are doing it for attention or taking resources or something??? I just cannot care in comparison to my childhood... Neurodiversity acceptance is in the process of happening, many people knowing their autistic is NOT a bad thing.

I was diagnosed at 9 but it was kept a secret from me until I was 14. And that entire time I thought I was the only one in the universe "like this" I truly thought I was an unlovable freak, I thought nobody would ever want to actually be friends with me (as opposed to fake friends who called me the R slur) all of that was traumatic. I cannot stress how much I LITERALLY thought I was alone in the world, and the self-hatred that came with the ableism I was raised with.

It sent my life on a whole different trajectory just learning that other autistic people existed in the world with me.

And compared to the isolation in my childhood I know many autistic people now, and its wonderful! Truly, I am not alone!

I love you, my self diagnosed siblings!

You bring light into a deep cave I thought I would die in.

I have cried tears of joy many times knowing I am not the only one on the planet with a mind like this.

I adore my self diagnosed friends.

I feel a joy that I never want to let go of from knowing you're with me, knowing you're fighting ableism with me.

And seeing how much change has already happened compared to my childhood full of ableism when my mind was treated like a shameful secret, it's because our efforts together.

I love you, self diagnosed Autistic/ADHD/neurodivergent friends.

I am not alone, and you are not alone either. I will always stand with you.

[monriatitans]

How to ADHD

10 ADHD Myths That Just Won't DIE!

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[neurodivergentme]

Neurotypical, Neurodivergent, Neurodiversity - What's the Difference?

Neurotypical, Neurodivergent, Neurodiversity – What’s the Difference?

I’ve been reading a lot about neurodivergence in the past few days and I’ve noticed that the words used make a huge difference to some people. When talking about neurodivergence, a lot of people have a lot of different ideas. I myself want to understand and use the vocabulary of the topic of neurodivergence correctly. I found this article that explains it very well. So I’ll just summarize it for…

[thecreativemillennial]

This brings back some uncomfortable memories. Credit to @neurowild

[volant-endeavor]

Schizophrenia and schizo-spec disorders are neurodivergent

There is a shared diagnostic history between autism and schizophrenia. We are cousins, the same way that adhd and autism are cousins. We are in the same fights.

To any schizo-spec person out there feeling excluded - I think about this often. You belong in the neurodivergent community. Thank you for being here

[roguelibrarian]

when you see people talking about the word neurodivergent being used "too broadly" and how it encompasses multiple different categories of disabilities with zero awareness that that was the fucking point

[jinxneedssleep]

When you’re not autistic but everyone thinks you are. Call that autism by association

[rice-enjoyer]

It is deeply irresponsible of you to promote the neurodiversity movement. The founder of the movement - a certain Japanese “Baedell” trans woman (one of those denyers of transandrophobia) named Kasaine - is a petulant destructive asshole who has torn apart numerous autism conferences, alleged murder and anti-epileptic or anti Asian sentiment or whatever simply for conferences refusing to browbeat a severely autistic nonverbal young man into turning off his flash camera. (Never mind that she could have just you know looked away.) I have spoken to countless Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, American Indians and others who also disagree with Kassaines utter petulance, as well as that of those like Amanda Baggs (a blatant faker/liar who I refuse to call by her “trans name” but you might know her as Mel.) She was also making the patently false claim that she had Rett syndrome. She also is deeply anti-physical disability, believes the abled can be cripples and believes that there is no difference between any disorder that affects the brain. I tried talking to @chavisory about this and she sent me to your blog, let her explain her deep deep misconceptions.

HUH????

[tabbyrocks]

My fun fact is that monoma name is (possibly) based off of the word monomaniac which basically means "exaggerated or obsessive enthusiasm for or preoccupation with one thing"

and that makes me go "This is literally just the description of a special interest monoma is literally autistic"

I REMEBER SEEING THAT!!!!

Im sure it just means his obsession with 1-a but actually suddenly i cant hear the people telling me that lalalallalalallala

hes SO autistic guys real not fake

also i like thinking abt his struggles to fit in with his class (them often telling other people around him when hes being overly silly that monoma is just a lot to deal with and to tone him out) is also so autistic.

i wish he had more screentime and character so he could be more autistic coded like izuku.

[theexodvs]

Illness is a real thing. Illness can affect any part of anyone's body at any time. Illness can be, and often is, inborn. Illness can be, and often is, lifelong. Pursuing healthy lifestyles can lessen, but never eliminate, the possibility of illness, including permanent illness. The brain, being as much a part of the body as the foot or the spleen, can also suffer illness, in this case a mental illness.

The neurodiversity movement generally denies the existence of mental illness. Its adherents is uncomfortable with the fact that there are things that are expected of most people that the mentally ill are unable to perform, cradle to grave. Therefore, it retreats in medical denialism, calling mental illnesses "neurotypes."

The Word of Faith movement does not deny illness, but instead says that if someone lives in a certain way or says certain things, that they can be healed of various ailments. This includes dismemberment, chromosomal disorders, and, in extreme cases, death. Their attempts at ridding the world of illness has proven fruitless

The neurodiversity and Word of Faith movements are two cultic sides of the same denialist, escapist coin. Illness is a fact of life, and a fact of some people's entire lives. Sometimes it can be healed, and sometimes it cannot. Denying its existence does not improve anyone's life, and neither do lies about the ability to miraculously cure it. What the ill, including the mentally ill, need is compassion and assistance.

[jamiesonwolf]

Birds - A Poem

He says one word to me. “Birds.” I’ve seen him wandering the halls of my dreams and when I try to engage him in conversation, all he says is that one word. I wonder what the word means to him, or if it should mean something to me. There is joy in his eyes when he speaks that word, and in my dreams, I look to the sky, wondering if I can fly into the blue while I’m in this dream…

[monriatitans]

Ponderful

What on Earth is "Neurodiversity"?

I’m Mica (she/her) PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ponderful KO-FI: https://ko-fi.com/ponderful LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/PonderfulYT There’s confusion online. Has “neurodiversity” lost all meaning? What even is a “neurotypical”? Aren’t we all a little “neurodivergent”? And is the “neurodiversity movement” romanticizing debilitating conditions? View On WordPress

[tremor-culture-is]

essential tremor culture is never getting answers from doctors

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[imaginaryberries]

I know it's not good for you to sit and wish you were different but I just want so much for my brain to function properly 😭 I swear thinking about something from start to finish didn't used to feel like trying to get blood from a stone

[thecreativemillennial]