Something I think about a lot with neurodivergence is how often the “norm” our brains are “diverging” from is not any sort of human norm, but just a modern norm invented by capitalists. Maybe demanding we all sleep on Henry Ford’s schedule and do endless paperwork to live is the divergent path here.
What if diff people have diff types of brains with diff strengths & weaknesses just like anything else but the uncreative fuckers who only care about making numbers go up got to make the rules fit *their* brains because they wake up so fucking early with all their gratuitous executive function
I don't subscribe to everything in this book, but the lengthy discussion of "normality" (and thus divergence from it) as a category created and then continually narrowed by factory culture and its economic follow-ons is extremely good and exactly what you're hitting www.akpress.org/empire-of-no...
I agree to an extent but I was non-verbal until I was about 4 which I think even in an ideal world would have still happened
I’ve been thinking about this a LOT lately. I’ve seen speculation that ADHD is an evolutionary trait that helped with hunter/gatherer patterns of intense focus followed by long periods of rest.
my folks have good intentions but a tendency to pathologize basically all of my negative emotions and like a year ago my dad was like “why don’t you look into medication” and i had to explain that I Am Not The Problem.
Jesus man, I’m tryna sleep tonight