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?
Gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea are common in children with autism and ADHD, with 30 per cent to 70 per cent of autism patients also diagnosed with functional gastrointestinal disorders.
'We can manage the work by ourselves,' says manager Arunima Bhaduri, who herself has been diagnosed with dyspraxia & works alongside several other neurodivergent persons at Sagar Express.
Study was conducted by team of researchers in China, who analysed 8 datasets of people of European descent & studied 5 traits, including life satisfaction & neuroticism, among others.
Armani built a multibillion-dollar global brand from something as simple as an unstructured jacket, and broke down the walls between formal and casual.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
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.