neurodivergence

And when you become identifed in your neurodivergence or your chronic illness that disappears and you realize that, fuck, I'm actually not just going to be a normal person. This is something I'm going to have to balance my whole life. So while there's a lot of freedom, I guess there's also that loss of that little bit of hope that one day you will

although I guess society and the medical practitioners often look really negatively upon social media and, you know, Instagram diagnoses and TikTok diagnoses, it's actually been incredibly helpful for people to help identify what's going on with them and to fnd community like we've already mentioned is such a big deal.

It's essentially like potentially being allergic to anything in the world. And it can look like a lot of different things

“In classic neoliberal style, ADHD diagnoses shift the responsibility for distraction onto the ‘innocent’ neurobiological individual, rather than addressing an underfunded public education system, privatized healthcare, Big Pharma, unaffordable childcare, and the normalization of competitive individualism.”

we should also remember that so much of what we call ‘madness’ or ‘mental illness’ is actually just behaviour that does not lend itself well to the capitalist economic system

That’s a really exciting prospect to me – the ways that we could all be mad and weird and neurodivergent in a world that didn’t value us according to our exploitability.

This is likely one reason we see increased rates of anxiety among people with alexithymia. Because they cannot label their emotions, they aren’t as easily able to recruit their prefrontal cortex to help out and self-soothe when their fear system gets activated! So for people who struggle with emotional regulation or alexithymia, emotional labeling