neurodivergent

Working With My Hands: A Man Who Is Autistic

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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.

Neurodivergent rejecting neurodiversity worldview

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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.