I've been deep diving into this YouTube channel.
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I've been deep diving into this YouTube channel. It has great non-binary and neurodivergent (especially autistic) content.
The one thing that keeps catching me off guard is that they are framing neurodivergence as a disability. Is that a cultural thing that I missed (they are in the UK)? Or is it the perception of this YouTuber? I've always framed it as a different type of brain and way of looking at the world.
I'll still keep watching and supporting their content, but it's something that keeps niggling me.
https://www.youtube.com/@AdelaideAlchemist
@autistics #ActuallyAutistics #NonBinary #YouTube #Disability
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I've been deep diving into this YouTube channel. It has great non-binary and neurodivergent (especially autistic) content.
The one thing that keeps catching me off guard is that they are framing neurodivergence as a disability. Is that a cultural thing that I missed (they are in the UK)? Or is it the perception of this YouTuber? I've always framed it as a different type of brain and way of looking at the world.
I'll still keep watching and supporting their content, but it's something that keeps niggling me.
https://www.youtube.com/@AdelaideAlchemist
@autistics #ActuallyAutistics #NonBinary #YouTube #Disability
@AncTreat5358 @pathfinder @autistics I’m autistic but I certainly don’t feel disabled. I work 20 hours a week (but get fatigued if I do more). I drive. I can feed and dress myself, albeit badly. Maybe it depends on how capable you feel.
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@AncTreat5358 @pathfinder @autistics I’m autistic but I certainly don’t feel disabled. I work 20 hours a week (but get fatigued if I do more). I drive. I can feed and dress myself, albeit badly. Maybe it depends on how capable you feel.
@benjamincox @AncTreat5358 @pathfinder @autistics I see my autism as one of those context-dependent disabilities. It's not inherently disabling, at least not for me, but it is in the society I'm stuck in. Not being able to work a full time job greatly limits what I can do, as do my sensory difficulties and lack of coordination, because I live in a society that's built to exclude people like me. I feel the same about my ADHD. Hell, even the celiac wouldn't be disabling without wheat in everything
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@benjamincox @AncTreat5358 @pathfinder @autistics I see my autism as one of those context-dependent disabilities. It's not inherently disabling, at least not for me, but it is in the society I'm stuck in. Not being able to work a full time job greatly limits what I can do, as do my sensory difficulties and lack of coordination, because I live in a society that's built to exclude people like me. I feel the same about my ADHD. Hell, even the celiac wouldn't be disabling without wheat in everything
@raphaelmorgan @benjamincox @pathfinder @autistics Thanks for sharing your perspective. That ties with that phrase I shared of "societal disability". Within ourselves, we are capable within our boundaries, it is just that society has different expectations of what it means to be a performing member of it.
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@raphaelmorgan @benjamincox @pathfinder @autistics Thanks for sharing your perspective. That ties with that phrase I shared of "societal disability". Within ourselves, we are capable within our boundaries, it is just that society has different expectations of what it means to be a performing member of it.
@AncTreat5358 @raphaelmorgan @benjamincox @autistics
One of the important distinctions to remember, is that there is a difference between autism being a disability and yourself feeling, or being, disabled. Denying that autism is a disability, is potentially denying all those for which this is true. Simply not seeing it as true for yourself, or as true, is your personal assessment and choice. -
@AncTreat5358 @raphaelmorgan @benjamincox @autistics
One of the important distinctions to remember, is that there is a difference between autism being a disability and yourself feeling, or being, disabled. Denying that autism is a disability, is potentially denying all those for which this is true. Simply not seeing it as true for yourself, or as true, is your personal assessment and choice.@pathfinder @raphaelmorgan @benjamincox @autistics Thank you for your thoughts, Kevin. I do understand autism can definitely be a disability for some. I recognize parts of that in myself, TBH.
When I posted this, I was also thinking of the deficit model, and it seemed saying autism=deficit=disabled didn't have to always be true.
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@pathfinder @raphaelmorgan @benjamincox @autistics Thank you for your thoughts, Kevin. I do understand autism can definitely be a disability for some. I recognize parts of that in myself, TBH.
When I posted this, I was also thinking of the deficit model, and it seemed saying autism=deficit=disabled didn't have to always be true.
@AncTreat5358 @raphaelmorgan @benjamincox @autistics
Knowing that we are different and not of necessity deficit, certainly clouds the issue. It's why so many of us struggle with it and why there is often a lively debate over it. -
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