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   The Animal and the Machine (taatm@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 21:51:19 JST The Animal and the Machine

   • Hannu Ikonen MD

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   To me it’s like saying people with brown eyes are optotypical and now we are looking in peoples eyes we are starting to diagnose people with blue eye disorders.

   We have variation in every part of our body yet we only recognise a single neuro pattern. It’s Victorian. Evolution doesn’t work that way and the starting premise should be one of expectation of diversity, especially with a tribal existence that has been in place longer than we have been human.

   #LanguageMatters and we need to start saying ‘identified’ not diagnosed. As a self-identified ADHDer I can tell you that my brain says this Victorian medicine is a pile of shit before it starts and I promise you, I am far from impaired.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 21:54:19 JST Rich Felker

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     @taatm @hannu_ikonen Also there is a lot more variation than neurotypical supremacists see or acknowledge, because for the most part neurotypicality isn't a single phenotype but a set of traits that make one both able and willing to perform an externally imposed farce.