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Neurodiversity 101

Thanx to Geek Feminism

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[weofodthignen]

I feel very sorry for the "Just Beneath My Skin" writer and I wish she had given us some clue what her disability is so that we could be on the lookout for people with a similar constellation of peoblems. Even though I know her point was precisely that it's an invisible disability. Her own post . . . perhaps because I live with an Aspie, perhaps because that person keeps telling me I may be Aspie myself (I don't think so), perhaps because I'm just bloodyminded, as we say where we come from . . . I think she just went to a damned poor school. Those 2 examples of prejudiced wording she should have learned about in school. Maybe she just chooses her examples poorly. In terms of the female experience, I can kind of grok what she means when she says she just didn't pick up the conditioning, but rather than what the feminist essay says, this is the kind of conditioning I think I've missed (through the above-mentioned bloodymindedness), and that I think might make her point more. Because if she doesn't have problems with jokes about how all women are awful drivers or with accusations of being PMSy when she disagrees with someone, then she's either lucky in who she knows (and society is slowly improving . . . more and more of us are lucky in this respect, finally, and it's why TV and misogynist rap and the rest are just irrelevant to more and more of us) or again she's choosing bad examples. Maybe like many, she just doesn't realize how many people are not conventional? I know people on the autistic spectrum get their noses rubbed in "normalcy" so often that they often overgeneralize about NTs.