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Neurodivergent 5d
i feel so conflicted rn. i don’t want this to seem like i want ppl to be disabled & struggle btw. i can barely get by everyday rn bc of my autism. & while my support needs are a bit higher, ik there are ppl who go thru sm more w theirs too …
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Anonymous 5d

so i would never be like oh autism is this awesome thing we should all feel awesome. most days for me are not good. i have health issues and extreme executive dysfunction. there is so much i do fall behind with..but idk i dont exactly hate my mind either? i used to haha, but being in the world and seeing the way NT ppl act like this is a death sentence where no autistic ppl ever can like or be happy w themselves, i realized that id rather be ND & my solution isnt outright erasure of a whole

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Anonymous 5d

That’s totally valid. It can feel like walking a very thin line when trying to explain it’s not the plague but it’s also not this amazing easy miracle either, trying hard to not over correct

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5d

group of people. i’d rather look at the different ways we can advance in the future for everyone, better support & understanding. which ofc don’t come at me ik that’s me fantasizing. but i feel so fucking defeated with NT ppl now. so many after today are showing how much they truly believe we all hate ourselves that much that we need them to speak & tell the world ppl like me shouldn’t exist in the future. idk.

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Anonymous replying to -> mother_russia 5d

exactly. like do i like the way i am disabled every day? absolutely not. but there’s also rlly cool things abt me that i do rlly like, and well its bc of my autism. so i dont hate my autism personally (ofc if someone does that is absolutely valid). but idk i dont wanna go full fuckin eugenics either and erase any possibility of autistic individuals to be born ig

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5d

Yeah I see it more as diversity. Some things are only negative because they exist in a bubble made for other types of things, like autism wasn’t this huge deal “back in the day” really because people would just find their thing. Have a hard time with social interactions and talking? Sheep herder. Have a special interest no matter how mundane? That’s now your specialty (like wood working, construction, gardening, irrigation, trains, etc). But now everything requires degrees even for the simplest

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5d

I feel like majority of the struggles with autism and adhd is just the context that it’s in rather than the actual way our brains work, to some extent.

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