#tldr you can be critical of the unnecessary pathologization of nd traits without being a dumbass about it | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

psycherprince · 2 months ago

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"neurodivergent traits that are neutral or positive to the person who has them are too often pathologized and treated as problems by doctors, researchers, and educators"

Yes! This is true and worth pointing out!

"In fact, half of these symptoms aren't even Real Things and we wouldn't need medication or struggle with things if people were just more nicies to us"

????? No. No, we've lost the plot now, hang on,

#i say this as someone with audhd: some of my symptoms ARE disabling. and they still would be if society was 'less individualistic' or w/e #if you know the article this post is about: the author also fails to understand what the term executive dysfunction actually refers to #as well as what time blindness actually is #''why cant doctors write you a prescription for body doubling instead of adderall'' WHAT are we TALKING ABOUT #it pisses me off bc its someone who so clearly Has The Spirit for something thats also really important to me #but ends up espousing a bunch of dangerous ableist or just kind of factually untrue ideas because Society Bad #like. explain why its so horrible to consider a particular set of symptoms that impact your life as a disability. quickly.#and it ends up with this weird implication that people with adhd only have one Real symptom and everything else is just things nt people-#-also do? im sorry but the argument that ''if time blindness was an adhd symptom then nt society wouldnt have invented clocks''#is either deeply stupid or very disingenuous and im really not sure which in this case #im time blind to a genuinely debilitating degree so this one got me #neurotypicals dont usually have to carry visual timers around their own home in order to manage daily life my man im sorry #tldr you can be critical of the unnecessary pathologization of nd traits without being a dumbass about it #im banging my head against the wall here

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