RE: https://mastodon-belgium.be/@dorgaldir/116290984023618527
quoting this instead of just boosting so I can add that I personally am not actually autistic, but I too like the infinity symbol for neurodiversity because I am #schizoid and I believe there are way more flavors of neurodivergence and ‘spectrum’ means a lot more than just a linear scale of how intensely you might identify with or be evaluated on one particular cluster of symptoms. I think taking neurodiversity seriously means recognizing that there are as at least as many entirely distinct neurologies as there human beings that have ever lived, and there simply is no standard or normal way of knowing or thinking or perceiving