Rethinking Neurodiversity

Rethinking Neurodiversity

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3 Things They Didn’t Tell You About Neurodiversity
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3 Things They Didn’t Tell You About Neurodiversity

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Ewe Would Have Thought It?

“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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