Empire of normality, part 22, to be continued...

Different people have different definitions of neurodivergence. Some include any neurological difference. Some include only autism, ADHD, dyslexia and a few more things. Some are in the middle. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Neurodivergence is such a nebulous catch-all term I think it is utterly pointless. I kind of wish the hyper-able, 'autism isn't a disability' types would stick to calling themselves neurodiverse/neurodivergent and leave the terms autistic, adhd etc for people actually affected by these disorders. I agree with you, as biological beings, humans have evolved bodies and brains to function in our environments in much the same way as other animals, including our social environment, and within that evolutionary process lots of amazing diversity has developed. But some developments hamper individuals from being able to 'function' in an optimal way and a good society will respond to that simple biological reality, by making things easier and providing support. My lungs didn't develop optimally (due to being premature) so I now have asthma which I need to take medication for. My brain didn't develop optimally either which has resulted in autism and adhd, which hamper my ability to live the life I would otherwise wish to live. That doesn't make me less-than anyone else, it doesn't negate my value as a human being and nor does it exempt a decent society from making changes to make things easier for people like us. But I'm not going to pretend that being autistic or asthmatic for that matter, are simply neutral differences. Yes autism is pervasive and it is part of who I am in a more significant way than my asthma is, but it is still a handicap for me, and I don't get why it is deemed so wrong to say that!

I'd have put the book down, if it wasn't written by AI then it ought to have been, it's that bad, that or the author really fell in love with Russian authors from the 1930s to 50s and wants to sound like the next lennin or marx Obviously one particular system is catered to what it's society considers normal at the time, people get old and retire or sustain injury and can't work, so they're no longer part of the system, but to then brandish any change at all as neuro divergence is ridiculous, he's confusing physical health with mental capacity, might as well ask why the pyramids don't make good submarines 😂 you really have to worry about anybody who came away reading this drivel thinking they'd learnt something from a book so weak on the ground it might as well have been called cloaked eugenics.