In America, it’s called ADHD. 🤣

what kinds of acts?

good choice. His best role though Id say is Renfield in Dracula.

While I’m all for a strengths based approach with neurodivergent people, aggregating it like this feels othering and forwarding stereotypes.

:). related - ever watch Sam Raimi’s Oz movie? It was a beat for best remake of Army of Darkness. I was laughing myself silly in the theater when I realized it and no one talks about it. Epic trolling.

sorry. tagged the wrong Kassiane. @neurodivergentk.bsky.social

Folks who try to medicalize this into categories of exclusion are not only wrong, but have missed the entire liberatory aspect of why the term neurodivergent was coined in the first place.

It is a term of inclusion and collective liberation. Not a term of exclusion and segregation. 6/6

People who are using neurodivergent to just mean autism and ADHD are co-opting it for their own purposes, usually supremacist or separatist in origin (e.g. I am ADHD, not mentally ill, like those other people.) 5/6

This is the most accepted definition by neurodiversity advocates who actually coined the term (specifically @dragonix.bsky.social Kassiane Asasumasu who invented it). 4/6

Acquired brain differences like bipolar, depression, personality disorders, brain injuries, ptsd, etc are also forms of neurodivergence.

Neurodivergence also includes positive brain changes like those experienced through long term meditation or psychadelic use. 3/6

Developmental “disorders” (put in quotes because the term disorder is problematic) like Autism and ADHD are only one form of neurodivergence - often called innate neurodivergence. Learing disabilities, Down Syndrome, giftedness, etc are all forms of innate neurodivergence. 2/6

For the curious - I sang I Will Survive by Cake, Start Wearing Purple by Gogol Bordello, and Only a Lad by Oingo Boingo.

look behind you! A three headed monkey!!

here fucking here.

it’s also super frustrating when people use these terms and then offer standard therapies or talk about neurodivergent conditions as if they are pathologies.

sure. I’m also open to a longer conversation if you’d like.

Meanwhile, the actual Tesla, who was impoverished and had a deep sense of communal fidelity, gave the world amazing things but died young and penniless. It's the social milieu interacting with the neurodivergence that causes outcomes...not the neurodivergence itself.