A friend asked me for a take on a social media post by a mutual acquaintance. I definitely did have a take, because the post said, explicitly and in so many words, that ADHD and autism are not disabilities. I understand why some people need to think of ADHD and autism as diseases or disabilities. It’s gotta be a disease/disability to get accomodations and to get insurance to cover things. … But they just … aren’t. The social media post I’m referring to And I want to talk about that for a minute. I’m not screencapping, linking to the post, or naming the person because it wasn’t a public post. But additionally because I think they actually were coming from a good place. A place of saying that all people have intrinsic worth, regardless of neurotype. Among the reasons I believe that is because the post pretty quickly clarified (“other than comorbidities”) that they felt the problems that neurodivergent people have are not because of some kind of inherent problem, but because of the way…
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