Could be gay, could be pan, could be lesbian, could be bi, could be ace… its just a term that means ‘not the default assumed societal standard’.
But within ‘Neurodivergent’… just as within Queer… you have a whole kalidoscope of potential, distinct variations, and also combinations of those variations.
But, what ends up happening is people just kind of … smush together some of those properties from some of those variants, and then assume or act like everyone under that banner is basically the same.
Like… a person with Schizophrenia is neurodivergent, so is an Autist, so is someone with ADHD, so is someone with DID (Multiple Personalities).
But those all have very different attributes, sometimes there is some overlap, but fundamentally… very very different.
Try telling a Catholic that a Mormon or a Coptic is a Christian in basically the same way they are.
Its not so much that its… vague.
Its that… its like queer.
Could be gay, could be pan, could be lesbian, could be bi, could be ace… its just a term that means ‘not the default assumed societal standard’.
But within ‘Neurodivergent’… just as within Queer… you have a whole kalidoscope of potential, distinct variations, and also combinations of those variations.
But, what ends up happening is people just kind of … smush together some of those properties from some of those variants, and then assume or act like everyone under that banner is basically the same.
Like… a person with Schizophrenia is neurodivergent, so is an Autist, so is someone with ADHD, so is someone with DID (Multiple Personalities).
But those all have very different attributes, sometimes there is some overlap, but fundamentally… very very different.
Try telling a Catholic that a Mormon or a Coptic is a Christian in basically the same way they are.
Probably not gonna go so well.