KaCi Mar 9, 2023
"Once we start realising that diagnostic criteria for all mental health "conditions" are based on the neurodivergent person in distress, we must become curious about what these neurodivergent minds would look like in a world that didn't cause them to suffer."
David Gray-Hammond, "The New Normal"
This book is full of great thoughts and beautiful sentences like this ❤️
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Show threadWendy (prev Jason) AMar 10, 2023
@KaCi @actuallyautistic I disagree with this view for a couple reasons. If I hyper focus and forget to eat, that’s not something the world did. Same when I forget things all the time. Alternately, I can’t put my anxiety on the world. It definitely causes me distress but the world isn’t doing anything wrong. Defining problems as caused by the outside world invalidates many real internal problems that affect people.
Show threadGTMLosAngelesMar 10, 2023

@norgralin @KaCi @actuallyautistic

In my view, if you forget to eat or hyperfocus or forget things in ways that are harmful (to you or to others) then yes, that is something the world did. The world refrained from providing the supports you need to be a caring and cared for part of the community. That’s on the world, not on you. In my opinion.

Show threadWendy (prev Jason) AMar 10, 2023
@Gtmlosangeles @KaCi @actuallyautistic there is a large gulf between harm and harm that necessitates societal intervention. Not eating when I should is a pain in the ass in terms of impacts but not something to sacrifice autonomy over.
Show threadGTMLosAngeles
@actuallyautistic @norgralin @KaCi I do see your point, which appears to align with what many people in our current society seem to believe. From my perspective, that is exactly the entire role of society, to intervene in a manner to prevent harm (unless an individual desires no such intervention).
Mar 10, 2023 at 5:57amWeb