You ever just stop and appreciate how incredible and important it is that so many vastly different neurotypes exist? Like, there are people out there with special interests in, what to some people would be, the most off-the-wall, dull topics who are out there just improving everyone's lives simply by caring about something that few others do. There are folk who struggle to eat breakfast consistently and never learned their times tables, but expose them to something they're interested in and they become so incredibly fixated on it that they'll go without sleep to study it, work on it, and/or improve it until they're at the bleeding edge of the field because their ability to focus on something is either near-absent or a force of nature.

Meanwhile, conspiracy-brained neurotypicals who do nothing well but sophistry and emulating social cues are on stages and behind podiums talking about putting these intellectual weapons into camps, employers are losing what could be their top performers because they find the amount of eye-contact someone uses unsettling, or because someone shows up to work five minutes late a few times a week, for-profit education systems with steep fees and unnecessary course requirements keep people out of professions where they'd be star assets, and capitalism keeps people who could be improving lives struggling for survival.

What lives would we be living if we just gave people the space and resources to do what they care about?

#ADHD #Autism #neurodiverse