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“We live on a neurodiverse planet where amoral nature generates endless genetic diversity… What neurodiversity brings us is a challenge to find a place for everyone and to distribute the bounty fairly” — Judy Singer. Founder of neurodiversity
The neurodiversity movement is a social and political powerhouse that began as a bold and necessary idea. It reframed autism, ADHD, and other neurological differences not as defects, but as variations — part of the natural spectrum of human minds.
It helped dismantle shame.
It secured rights.
It empowered countless people to understand themselves not as broken, but as different.
This was a social and political triumph.
But over time, it hardened into a narrative.
One that asserts neurodivergence is:
• Entirely genetic
• Inherently fixed
• And because it is natural, it must be celebrated
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