ADHD and autism are not illnesses to be cured or concealed. So what if it is our identity? Do we not have the right to demand humane treatment and live without unfair hassles?
The Nainital littering incident shows that many tourists can’t manage the simple act of putting their rubbish where it belongs. Their trash is a signature that reads—‘tourists were here’
People who travelled to Bangkok for Coldplay concert had no complaints. In contrast, India’s concert infrastructure has a lot of room for growth—even Bryan Adams agrees.
Luigi became a folk hero overnight, across the political spectrum. But his personality being deciphered from his online presence left me feeling disconcerted.
After his stellar introduction, Faasil’s Shekhawat just tanks. The so-called IPS officer is reduced to a clown, with none of his moves landing the punch they’re supposed to.
There’s no dance in Pushpa 2’s 'Kissik' & 'Peelings'. If director Sukumar aimed to recreate the magic of Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s Oo Antava, then he lost the plot miserably.
It’s not just manifestation that has got the dictionary nod of approval. Gen Z language gets a boost of legitimacy with ‘word of the year’ honours from various reputed dictionaries.
Dhanush clearly has an upper hand as he drags Nayanthara into a legal battle over the use of a 3-second clip in her Netflix documentary. How dare she decide to monetise her stardom?
In Australia, PM Anthony Albanese is facing pushback from academics and child rights organisations for his blanket ban on social media for kids under 16.
With his cameo in Bads of Bollywood, Emraan Hashmi, who has long shifted away from his signature bold image, got the chance to revive his boyhood charm.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
There were no plans to have Mk1A version. However, compromise was reached between HAL & IAF in 2015 since original plan for getting Mk2 would've been time-consuming affair.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
I don’t think that’s a fair invoking of Godwin’s Law here. This person did not bring up Hitler anywhere and hasn’t lied about the intersectionality between ableism, and race-gender apartheid, and eugenics..if that’s what you’re referring to…(you can read Kyla Schuller’s book, Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century). In fact, Godwin himself has criticized the over-application of his “law,” claiming that it does not articulate a fallacy, but rather is intended to reduce the frequency of inappropriate and hyperbolic comparisons:
“Although deliberately framed as if it were a law of nature or of mathematics, its purpose has always been rhetorical and pedagogical: I wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler to think a bit harder about the Holocaust.” (Wikipedia)
Maybe you can introspect a little on this.
You’re mistaken if you think this author is actually saying ableism and racism are the same thing; it looks like you’re just missing the woods (the essay) for the trees (the headline). And it seems you are over-reading the essay beyond its scope, which is about ableism, trivialisation of disability, and how the system and society aren’t helpful and actively disable even as they claim to support— I’m an ADHDer and I know neurotypical friends who’ve resonated with this too… capitalist society sets unrealistic expectations on people, why do you think the suicide rate is so high in our country? What do you think that Pune EY woman’s death was about? Mental health isn’t even covered in most insurances. Read Durkheim on suicide, and Bibhuti Mohanty on Farmer’s suicides. Generalising that “disabled people have a bad habit of not being independent” without any basis isn’t a good idea, touching some grass is. Nobody here is glorifying dependence. As far as I am concerned, the author spoke truth to power. The call for being independent is appreciated, and I know many wonderful ND people including my own sister who lead independent lives in their own right while also advocating for rights and better support systems. But I guess you seem to have “not being independent” confused with being infantilised. Have you considered that disabled people are often forcibly socialised by society (and the state!) into being infantilised? The most recent example is how the new digital data protection rules infantilise people with disabilities by taking away their agency for consent using terms like “legal capacity.” They cannot be blamed for their situation! And it is laughable to blame ‘neurodivergence’ as a movement for forced infantilisation!
This whole aggressive fetishization of “independence” is just a neoliberal game of individualising everyone, and blaming them when they seek care when they need it. Nobody is truly independent. While neurotypicals depend on each other in society, on structures, they have their support systems which they designed for everyone (albeit assuming “everyone” is neurotypical) for their general needs, etc. why is it so wrong if a disabled person demands to be accommodated according to her needs? Disabled people don’t live full lives precisely because nobody cares about their existence. And we are not asking to be spoonfed or be treated like glass, I don’t know where you get that impression from. Neurodivergence and disability are not only clinical, neither is it merely a made-up identity, it is a shared ONTOLOGY, and that makes it deeply political!
If you can survive without support, good for you; if you don’t wanna view neurodivergence as a blessing, you do you. But speak for yourself. Maybe look up “internalised ableism.”
I seriously think the author of this article needs to learn goldwins law. I don’t view my disablities as a blessing. I don’t need to because I myself don’t want to live in a world where I have to rely on others for support. Many people with disabilities don’t live full lives and have a seriously bad habit of not being independent. For you, you may not be the case, but I am and so are many others.
I don’t think that’s a fair invoking of Godwin’s Law here. This person did not bring up Hitler anywhere and hasn’t lied about the intersectionality between ableism, and race-gender apartheid, and eugenics..if that’s what you’re referring to…(you can read Kyla Schuller’s book, Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century). In fact, Godwin himself has criticized the over-application of his “law,” claiming that it does not articulate a fallacy, but rather is intended to reduce the frequency of inappropriate and hyperbolic comparisons:
“Although deliberately framed as if it were a law of nature or of mathematics, its purpose has always been rhetorical and pedagogical: I wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler to think a bit harder about the Holocaust.” (Wikipedia)
Maybe you can introspect a little on this.
You’re mistaken if you think this author is actually saying ableism and racism are the same thing; it looks like you’re just missing the woods (the essay) for the trees (the headline). And it seems you are over-reading the essay beyond its scope, which is about ableism, trivialisation of disability, and how the system and society aren’t helpful and actively disable even as they claim to support— I’m an ADHDer and I know neurotypical friends who’ve resonated with this too… capitalist society sets unrealistic expectations on people, why do you think the suicide rate is so high in our country? What do you think that Pune EY woman’s death was about? Mental health isn’t even covered in most insurances. Read Durkheim on suicide, and Bibhuti Mohanty on Farmer’s suicides. Generalising that “disabled people have a bad habit of not being independent” without any basis isn’t a good idea, touching some grass is. Nobody here is glorifying dependence. As far as I am concerned, the author spoke truth to power. The call for being independent is appreciated, and I know many wonderful ND people including my own sister who lead independent lives in their own right while also advocating for rights and better support systems. But I guess you seem to have “not being independent” confused with being infantilised. Have you considered that disabled people are often forcibly socialised by society (and the state!) into being infantilised? The most recent example is how the new digital data protection rules infantilise people with disabilities by taking away their agency for consent using terms like “legal capacity.” They cannot be blamed for their situation! And it is laughable to blame ‘neurodivergence’ as a movement for forced infantilisation!
This whole aggressive fetishization of “independence” is just a neoliberal game of individualising everyone, and blaming them when they seek care when they need it. Nobody is truly independent. While neurotypicals depend on each other in society, on structures, they have their support systems which they designed for everyone (albeit assuming “everyone” is neurotypical) for their general needs, etc. why is it so wrong if a disabled person demands to be accommodated according to her needs? Disabled people don’t live full lives precisely because nobody cares about their existence. And we are not asking to be spoonfed or be treated like glass, I don’t know where you get that impression from. Neurodivergence and disability are not only clinical, neither is it merely a made-up identity, it is a shared ONTOLOGY, and that makes it deeply political!
If you can survive without support, good for you; if you don’t wanna view neurodivergence as a blessing, you do you. But speak for yourself. Maybe look up “internalised ableism.”
I seriously think the author of this article needs to learn goldwins law. I don’t view my disablities as a blessing. I don’t need to because I myself don’t want to live in a world where I have to rely on others for support. Many people with disabilities don’t live full lives and have a seriously bad habit of not being independent. For you, you may not be the case, but I am and so are many others.