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To be fair there's a non-negligible percentage of the population who have neuro-divergencies making that a tall order. For example, apparently it could be as high as 1 in 10 people have some form of ADHD.
I'm not sure I've got anything actually clinically wrong with me, but I've got the memory of a sieve and a tendency to lose track of time. So I can definitely see the benefit there, and imagine it might be even more of a game changer for people actually with those conditions
Like most of the Neurodivergant individuals my age, I was never diagnosed.
For this reason, I was very lucky and fortunate that my older brother and peer group kept an eye out and kept reminding me to pay attention to my surroundings.
Nowadays, I use my learned skill of hyper awareness of my surroundings, combined with my innate over-analysis of problems to anticipate problems before they develop.
Neurodivergence is a gift, allowing you to see things that neuro-normative people don’t, as well as a curse. If you overcome the curse through discipline and training, as well as support of those around you, you will end up as better person.
If you keep saying “I’m on the spectrum so I don’t have to adhere to social norms”, you will only ever be neurodivergent.
Then work against you faults to make yourself better.
That's not an excuse. It's going to be harder for you then for some - tough cookie.
If someone had tendency to, IDK, cut themselves, the attitude shouldn't be "oh so sad" but helping them to change.
"Don't accept accomodations for things you could use help with, just git gud scrub" is one of the more ablist things I've seen on Lemmy. Congrautlations on being the biggest fucking prick I've seem today.
Right, that might be the case for me (though I'm not sure how I'm supposed to significantly improve my memory, everyone's gets worse with age, kinda a fact of life)
But for the percentage of people with neuro-divergencies where this could help, surely this would be them working against their faults? Using appropriate tools to make their lives easier is a much more viable solution than telling someone to change something about themselves that they ultimately might not be able to.
You wouldn't tell a leg amputee to figure out how to hop around, you'd tell them to get crutches or a prosthetic.
Thank you.
I'm pretty active in ADHD spaces and seeing "then try to improve" set my teeth on edge.
I grew up with assholes trying to tell me to just "work on it." Makes me crazy we live in the future and there are still people so entitled that they'll tell disabled people "tough cookie."