You do not hate journalists enough.

Normies explain why some of ya’ll are so obsessed with telling everyone else how to live?

I hadn’t heard of epistemic injustive before, but I’ve seen that used against queer people so many times. So many people ask queer people “But what if you’re wrong?” as if there’s some kind of fine or prison sentence for incorrectly identifying as not cis or straight. Cishet people never get asked those questions even though incorrectly thinking you’re cishet when you’re not is far more damaging. The implication is that it’s better to incorrectly think you’re cishet than to correctly think you’re queer. It was far more common throughout history for queer people to lead double lives or go through life not understanding themselves, but some people expect us to believe that us being wrong about ourselves is a bigger danger/risk than living a lie.

So much of the same goes for neurodivergent people. There were decades where people had little awareness about autism, ADHD, OCD etc. People went decades struggling and having no idea why. I got diagnosed with ADHD at 42. I paid 1000 GBP for a two hour assessment with a psychologist with 20 years experience because I knew I would have too many doubts about the diagnosis if I got it through a 30 minute Zoom call with a nurse that most of the people that go through the NHS end up getting. When the medication started working for me I realised how much anxiety I got from having neurological hyperactivity, but I still sometimes have doubts that the diagnosis was a mistake even though it clearly wasn’t. But still, we must think about all the poor neurotypicals that are being overdiagnosed.

I think part of this is capitalism fighting against the idea that some people simply cannot fit into neoliberal capitalism. There are intractable differences between people that simply cannot be smoothed over by market relations, namely things like neurodivergance or being trans. One in three trans people have experienced homelessness, for instance.

So neoliberalism has to instead propose these intractable differences aren’t shared by groups of people, but rather they’re just individual quirks and that any inability to operate within the market place is a moral failure.

There are so many possible reasons. Plain old ableism is one. Neurodiversity is also inherently in conflict with typical conservative beliefs about individualism and bootstrapping. The natural conclusion of the concept of neurodiversity is that neurodivergent people are not lesser, but are simply trying to function in a world that isn’t designed for them. Accepting that means accepting that not only should neurodivergent people be entitled to accomodations, but that everyone should also have access to affordable and good quality healthcare so that income is never a barrier to a diagnosis. If your worldview doesn’t accept systemic injustice and instead believes that we’re all individuals who succeed or fail based on own merits, then neurodiversity is going to be a threat to your belief system.

Disclaimer: Not all neurodivergent people, but they’re doing it because we’re a problem for them. We tend to group together, be highly educated, hyper-focused, creative, queer, stubborn, and have some form or another of hypervigilance/critical thinking skills and an increased desire for justice. They’re after autistic people because they can’t let these new types mess with their plans. They’d rather call them ill and teach them to mask again. We take what the science says as true, make it internal law, and won’t let their feelings (or lies) change our minds

at least the high functioning ones.

Some people want non-normatives to get back in the institutions and out of sight where they belong. Some people don’t want governments to pay for accommodations or in some countries, disability payments. Some people want to erode legislation protecting the disabled in the workplace (through stigmatising the perceived recipients) or to narrow the group that applies to (you’re not really disabled!) Some people want it to be cool to bully disabled people and find that (compassionate) recognition of disability increases public sympathy.

the stupid octogenarians still holding onto the reins of fascistic power will not digest and incorporate the idea of neurodivergence. young fascists are capable of not just living with the existence of autism but weaponizing its identity as well. those who fund them, however, can’t help but go back to the old classics of vaccines turning people autist.

My guess is that the punchline is dying for Israel.

Same. An official diagnosis gets me literally nothing except being on a list. I’m not in America but I am in the Anglosphere, so I’m being careful. Maybe when I was a kid, it’d have helped with accommodations, but not anymore.

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Same here, as validating as a diagnosis would be there’s no way I’ll pursue one in this political climate. I’ll stick with my self-diagnosis and saying “I’m probably autistic”

also no accommodations would be opened up for me so why bother finding out

That means the headline is technically correct. She definitely was wrong, but only due to her choice of employer.

I find it odd that there arent more people sensitive to noises. Shit is waaaay noises than we were built for.

1v1 me in the arena of video game knowledge (I will win)

Every minute spent on your support needs is a miminut not spent on capital. So the ideal solution is to convince themselves to burn out and then die so the lines goes up easier

I hate the mainstream media! I hate the mainstream media!

my brother was autistic and the psychologists wanted to evaluate me, but my mom wouldn’t let them because as she said many years later ‘I didn’t want to have to deal with another’ which honestly fair enough with a husband that ‘had his life and she had hers’ traveling for work every week