Neurodivergent rejecting neurodiversity worldview

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. Neurodivergents include those with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and several other conditions which involve noticeable differences in neurological functioning. It is a categorizes an identity.

Neurodiversity, by contrast, is a sociological framework that organizes all social life around neurological status. The framework holds that neurotypical people, by virtue of their neurotype alone, exercise structural power and privilege over neurodivergent people — and that this differential constitutes a form of oppression. The oppressor class cannot exit this position through any change of attitude or behavior; the structure itself is the problem. The two groups are permanently constituted as adversaries, locked in conflict that no individual act can resolve and no common ground can bridge.

This is a direct contradiction of the gospel.

Christ Himself becomes the target of the greatest injustice in history — despised and forsaken, a man of sorrows (Isa. 53:3 LSB), condemned without cause, handed over by His own people, executed by the state (Acts 2:23 LSB). Yet in His death, burial, and resurrection, He does not simply survive injustice or balance its scales. He abolishes the dividing wall between all His people (Eph. 2:14 LSB), reconciling them first to God through the cross (Eph. 2:16 LSB; Col. 1:20 LSB), and through that vertical reconciliation, to one another. The mechanism matters: it is not that human solidarity overcomes division. It is that union with Christ overcomes it. In Him there is neither the privileged nor the oppressed — all have sinned (Rom. 3:23 LSB), all are justified by grace through faith (Rom. 3:24 LSB), and all are members of one body (1 Cor. 12:13 LSB).

Justice and injustice are not categories available for human fabrication. They are categories of God’s law — “Justice, and only justice, you shall pursue” (Deut. 16:20 LSB). When man invents them to serve a sociopolitical framework, what he produces is not justice. He calls evil good and good evil (Isa. 5:20 LSB), and what he builds guarantees perpetual grievance, because it was never designed to resolve anything.

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