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February 2023 | Another Book Question! (Patreon)

Published:
2023-02-22 00:27:01
Imported:
2023-03

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Hello Brains & Hearts!

We've got another book question for ya! That we'd love to hear your opinion on! 

If those of us who are Neurodivergent advocates are all essentially working toward the same goal...

What is that goal?
How do you think we get there?

(I have my opinions, but I'd love to hear yours!)

And let us know if we can use your quote in the book, and how you'd like to be credited for the quote ('anonymous' is definitely an option if you'd like to remain such!). 

Comments

Lynnea Brunner

Include diversity in planning. This goes across the board. Have options for making processes less complicated, more accessible. Don't hide those options or make them hard to find.

Anonymous

To build a community that is understanding ADHD-related struggles and challenges but celebrating individual's unique strengths. I think we can get there by keep having conversations and educate on how to support our differences from conventional perspective of the world. If you want to quote me, Kai, would work!

Anonymous

To make the world more friendly towards different ways of perceiving and interacting with it. Getting there? First, helping people understand in what ways they are not neurotypical, as everybody some way in which they approach things a bit differently. From there, helping them see how they have been aided in that - whether it is learning by having things presented differently (audio, written, different words, pictures, objects to manipulate, etc.) or things that make it easier to accomplish goals small and large. Understanding that one approach or another is neither right nor wrong and how someone has been helped often helps them understand neurodiversity somewhat abstractly. Then, we can start looking at all the different ways that people might be helped, presenting tools to the person to concretely understand how better to help.

Todd Holdsworth

My goal is as many people as possible understanding. To get there is more well-timed gentle education (not the in-your-face kind people quickly turn away from) and less masking. When people acknowledge my unmasked behaviours (even if just subtle body language), it presents an education opportunity. I will continue to do talks at work too but both methods of education are effective. You can quote it all and my whole name 😊

April Nolan

To provide information. The problem in today’s world right now at least from my opinion is, there are so many programs, companies, assistants, medical providers, etc. out there but people don’t know they’re there because they don’t know how to do the research or no one showed them or told them how to find it.

Anonymous

First day of school teacher breaking the ice : “who here wears glasses? Is a righty? Lefty? has some sort of special way of learning? um….Oh I know, who went swimming this summer?” (and so on and more creative and fun)

Anonymous

For everyone to know their inherent worth, especially for kids. I know when I was in school, it felt like being under a microscope aimed at my weaknesses and broadcasting them for my peers to see. It took me a long time of feeling somehow defective and broken to gain any confidence in a school setting and start to see my strengths. What I would like to see change are 1) an education and work culture based on cultivating each person's unique strengths and gifts through exploration rather than rote memorization, and 2) a general culture that values physical, mental, and spiritual health, purpose, character, and community, over productivity, wealth, and achievement as the measure of a "successful" life.

Anonymous
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No problem if you want to quote me. My full name is Paul Strong.

Anonymous

I want it to be normal to ask for and receive accomodations for whatever condition you have, regardless of whether it's a neurological or a physical condition or a social construct such as gender. I want it to be treated as standard practice within ALL settings (employment, education, interaction with government services and with businesses, and in social contexts). I want it to feel normal to ask and to feel normal to be asked and to feel normal to enact those accomodations. I want it to feel normal all over the world. I want it to be so normal that in many of these settings people ask US if there's anything that would make things easier, without prior knowledge of any conditions we may have and expect to be given requests for accomodations as an answer. I want it to feel normal because people everywhere understand that any costs are more than made up for by the multitude of benefits that inclusivity brings. My name is Lisa Gaudron if you need it

Anonymous

Oh yes, I also want math to be taught with space hoppers (google "space hopper image" if you don't understand). Because ADHD kids (whose best chance at learning is their first chance) need it and because everyone else probably does too ... math is only boring if you do it wrong and the right way involves bounce

Anonymous

I want people to stop assuming we're not trying, and calling our inability to perform things like chores on a regular basis as "weaponized incompetence." Don't judge someone else's effort based on your results, that's my new catchphrase.

Liz Richard

Shona, that's a "keeper" I'm going to remember..

Maria James-Thiaw

As a neurodivergent mom of neurodivergent kids, I want the world to accept that there are different ways of thinking, and though we struggle with executive functioning, if supported we can create unbelievable things. Anything from the light bulb, to the end of slavery, to the moonwalk! (The dance, not the actual moon...ok) If people couldn't see the world differently, we wouldn't have these masterpieces. Let the neurodivergent people in your life thrive! (You can use my name. Maria James-Thiaw, poet/playwright)