Normal Sucks

As Henri-Jacques Stiker asked, will you choose a love of difference or chase the dream of the same?

What kind of world would we build if we awoke from the dream of the same and embraced the reality of difference?

disability rights movement asks a fundamental question

People with disabilities have experiences, by virtue of their disabilities, which non-disabled people do not have, and which are sources of knowledge that is not directly accessible to non-disabled people.

The higher the levels of anxiety, the more likely a person is to have a high IQ.

“holistic perception,” which encompasses a tendency to see the big picture in situations, stronger peripheral vision, higher than average visual-spatial skills, strengths in deciphering patterns, and the ability to “interact with their auditory environment while drawing upon their wider spatial attention,” enabling them to recognize patterns others

“hyper-systemizations.”

documented the strengths of a continuum of brain differences and validated the idea that these differences are an important form of human neurodiversity.

People with differences get services in school, their struggles are recognized, but only if they are willing to pathologize themselves, emphasize their problems, downplay their strengths, and claim differences as deficiencies.