For all of my love of language, one thing I struggle to get behind is the idea of “living like there is no tomorrow” or “live like you only have X amount of time to live.” I appreciate the sentiment of not wasting time — but when I take the idea to its logical conclusion, … Read more
The neurodivergent community has created a sub-culture which praises, celebrates, and honors a lack of development and immaturity. Spend any amount of time in an active neurodivergent group and you’ll see varied discussions about someone’s “current hyperfixation” or listing of disabilities like scouting merit badges. Their identity has become the disability they argue isn’t a disability.
Over the last year, I “self-identified” as autistic because, well, truth be told, autism explained my life history perfectly. All of the “just” excuses became neatly explained behind autism. In spite of this, and at great personal expense, I pushed for a formal diagnosis because I needed to know for sure.
Accepting that you are “neurodivergent” does not mean accepting the ideology of “neurodiversity.” One is a descriptive label. The other is a worldview.
Used precisely, neurodivergent describes divergence from the most statistically typical neurological profile. It is a categorization — it says nothing about power, justice, or how human beings ought to relate to one another.
ujimoto hopes we’ll take the series as serious Shonen, shoehorning deep emotional beats. Amid the awkward teenage groping, we experience brutal carnage and gore, moments of pure hopelessness, death, and loss. Unfortunately, most of the characters are too hysterical or unbelievable for the audience to ever find a surrogate for the loss. Bad things happen, but you have a hard time feeling bad — because most of the characters don’t either.
Neurodivergent Christians are the canaries. They are dropping out of church attendance. They are isolated, marginalized, and sitting on the fringes — when they show up at all. Most churches simply mark them off as the “weird quiet ones” and move on. What the church doesn’t know is that most of them never self-identify. They’ve learned that doing so is not safe. Their absence goes unexamined, their struggles go unnamed, and the church loses members it doesn’t even know it’s losing.
I had to teach myself “tricks” to end conversations. I still use these tricks today. If I’ve ever spoken to you in person, I’ve used one of these “tricks”. Essentially, scripts, to help me figure out the path out of the conversation when I think it’s over.
When I was 18 years old, the local police raided our house without a warrant. We had rushed out of the house during dinner to pick up my mom who had fallen in a hotel bathroom in Pennsylvania while taking my oldest sister on a missions trip. In our rush to travel 14 hours on … Read more