#also ppl try to argue it only counts as ND if born with ir | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

lacefuneral · 1 year ago

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Love how ADHD, autism and schizophrenia objectively have the same amount of traits and experiences in common, but schizophrenics aren't welcome in the metaphorical club house because they're bad for the image the neurodivergency movement is currently trying to capitalize on and with "love" I mean fuck y'all

#<- was an uninformed dipshit a few years ago and has since learned #if you have any sort of brain that deviates from The Norm it is considered neurodivergence #most people use the word incorrectly to Just mean autism and ADHD. or personality disorders if they are generous #but literally refers to anything. including anxiety and depression #which was hard pill for me to swallow (lol)#as an autistic person that has always struggled with many things #i'd always had anxiety and depression as well #but i'd grown to view them as ''basic mental illnesses everyone has. so they don't count''#as if people don't struggle immensely just with these #as if these aren't disabling. don't affect how you perceive the world and interact with others #when we try to quantify neurodivergence in any sort of way. we are failing people #groups of people are always going to get left out #sometimes it's schizospec people. sometimes people with neurodevelopmental disorders like down syndrome #just. say brain stuff #because that IS what it means #unfortunately ND has become so synonymous with autism that it overshadows everything else #and i say this an autist #also ppl try to argue it only counts as ND if born with ir #most ppl develop schizophrenia later in life #i certainly was not born with PTSD #but my very earliest memories as a person i had severe e #anxiety and depression. because these are genetic and i received them from my pare ts #**parents #just as autism is probably genetic bc my sibling and their child is autistic

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