37q:
the identity politics prevalent in neurodivergence discourse – and even any social interaction with neurodivergence – is like, pretty clearly a perpetuation of hegemonic structures of normality. we still cling to the right to prioritize and privilege certain thoughts & behaviors as Good And Correct, but we can make an exception for neurodivergence as long as we realize that its neurodivergence, describe it as neurodivergence, and identify the specific neurodivergence.
show me where your compassion for neurodivergent people is when theres no discernible difference between a stereotypical teenager’s unproductive laziness & emotionlessness and depression. show me where your compassion for neurodivergent people is when someones having a meltdown and you scold them for being a brat but their sensory issues arent taken seriously by you or anyone around them, or theyre only taken seriously when they seek professional diagnosis. show me where your compassion for neurodivergent people is when you only empathize or seek to understand someones explosion of anger when its explanations has capital letters or falls “within reason”.
what im trying to say is that if we deem some forms of neurodivergence excusable and others inexcusable, or some deserving of compassion and others not deserving of compassion, its blatantly obvious that its being used to maintain the discursive boundaries that capitalism uses to preserve a well-disciplined class of subjects. the ways that we rely on discourse in its systems of formalized signification do nothing but preserve the unlivable & alienating conditions our society is formed under. if we cant extend compassion towards thoughts and behaviors that would essentially qualify as neurodivergence but arent identified as such, then our compassion towards neurodivergence is nothing but exception-making, an inauthentic and insincere kind of compassion.
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