Tumgik
About
Privacy Policy
Removal Request
Visit Blog
Explore Tumblr blogs with no restrictions, modern design and the best experience.
Fun Fact
The Tumblr office adopted Tommy, an 11-year-old Pomeranian.
#so i went into communicationd with concentration in culture and disability
sleep-safe
·
2 years
Text
sometimes someone seems autistic and they're literally. just Asian. western medicine does this.
#signs
#disorder
#stick out
#this is a critique
#btw
#like does neurodivergence need to necessarily be pathologized?
#does disability? do we Need to pathologize the human condition?
#idk maybe
#we can def do smn Better tho....that facilitates more understanding and not just... separation (at best)
#anyway thinking ab this lately just cause like.
#so when i really figured my shit out in undergrad. i realized i want to go into health and healing
#but i wanted a huamnistic perspective and not a pathologizing one
#bottom-up so to speak. to appreciate the variety of humanity and alleviate suffering within that framework
#so i went into communicationd with concentration in culture and disability
#and in this specific instance some of autism (truly i don't think they are Symptoms bc they do not...
#like. these traits are not inherent to the condition we just often display them but theyre secondary
#they dont describe the core of the condition (which is just a particular neurosystem--everything else is secondary)
#but is inherently smn culturally abnormal (theoretically harmful or at least disruptive)
#common autistic behaviours like avoiding eye contact; low affect; high or low volume; reservedness
#these are Common Traits of Asian cultures! (
#obviously Most of the world is Asian so there is CONSIDERABLE variation. but the pt being that these are only abnormal from a WESTERN pov
#(also I'm in the United States so i am in particular thinking about Asian Americans but this also applies to like intl interaction)
#(like... idk a tiktoker from Hong Kong that ppl think is Autistic who may be allistic)
#(also I'm not tryna say only westerners/usa be autistic and Asians can't LMAO)
#(its a Human neurotype. just the things that depend on what is circumstantially normative)
#anyway.......... hello to the 3 ppl who will see this
#actually autistic
#mine
#critical cultural studies
#coms
9 notes
·
View notes
Last Seen Blogs
homosexualangelinthesky
Ga(y)briel
nekronyancer
Opossum in a trenchcoat
heathenrytribal
Heathenry Tribal
deathblossomed
Bingo!
laylastheff
Layll'a