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We never know the number of undiagnosed, many may be just capable of pretending but suffering.

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[–] NightAuthor 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I’m pretty sure the whole point of that term is to convey the idea that those people aren’t broken, they’re just different from typical people. And in a society dominated by those with what are now “neurodivergent” minds, they’d be the typical “normal” people.

Funnily though, the very definition of many of the disorders specifically state that they are a significant departure from the norm that cause some kind of life impairment.

So what we’re really saying is, stop treating us like shit and using words that describe us and turning them into derogatory words.

Except, it’s human nature to not be very accepting of people we see as different from us. So I guess we’ll just keep playing these stupid semantic games.