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can’t help but think that a lot of the issues with how insular online communities conceive of neurodivergence stem from how the discourse necessitates the imagined existence of a mythic group of ‘neurotypicals’ cogently and unambiguously free of the social knottiness that certain neurodivergences can entail (“all ‘neurotypicals’ experience X,” “no ‘neurotypicals’ experience Y,” etc) rather than understanding neurotypicality as an enforced social norm to which we are all expected to comply and fall short of to varying degrees

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Tagged: litsrally what ive been saying, show me this mythical neurotypical the individual who embodies this platonic ideal of a person, also you get this streak of essentialism that happens when you (often subconsciously) posit, neurodivergence and neurotypicality (and queerness and straightness for that matter) as intrinsic diametrically opposed opposites, at least in terms of how actual people are, and not the conflict between lived experiences and the ideals people are expected to live up to, .