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yucandu@lemmy.world 5 days agoAlright but my neurodivergence makes the sun too bright, makes my clothes too itchy, and makes food taste too loud, and if they tell me they have a pill that can make that a little easier, then I’ll take it.
It’s not just a “neurotypical world”, I am disabled and I need a ramp to access places.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Sadly enough the pills rarely help with that, its usually made so you can “peform” like everyone else.
I definitely understand your sentiment, I struggle with many of the same thing.
The thing with perspective is, Imagine a world where:
Humans evolved to be more active during evening, night and morning because midday is too bright for everyone.
Where all clothes where made from no itch materials because everyone hates the itchy ones and therefor wont produce clothes with it.
The meal recipe tell you to add x because otherwise it tastes “too loud” and language evolved for people to have a mutual known understanding of what is meant with that.
Etc
In this world we would not be disabled, you would not need a ramp.
But this world is not any different from the one we live in now. The only difference is people like us being the norm therefore human culture adapts to those norms.
My favoriete example is things like a keyboard, it’s so obviously made for 2 hands. Not having 2 hands is a disability in context of a keyboard but we can just build a different keyboard. The keyboard is not the world. That we can build any kind of keyboard is the world.
This is what i mean with “neurotypical world” normal people don’t understand there are others that need things to be different so they never are.
Anyway if you are an adult and medication helps you i am not going to object, you are your own expert a you know what is best for you.
yucandu@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Alright it just bugs me when people say autism isn’t a disability, or that it’s just society that needs to understand us, and actually the diagnosis is like how people used to view homosexuality as a disorder…
Like if you guys keep that up you’re gonna get my disability payments taken away.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Disabilities being contextual does not invalidate their existence.
We do not live in an autistic world, hence we face daily challenges of all sizes. Your benefits are a compensation for these challenges.
yucandu@lemmy.world 5 days ago
wtf is an “autistic world”, a planet further from the sun?
starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I kinda agree just not fully, for instance for something like adhd you might get bored of something you really wanted to get good at, and your brain will just not allow you to do it. A regular person might get bored, an adhd person will be incapable of doing it for almost any reason. It’s a different and valuable way of seeing the world, but you would still be “disabled” in some ways, even in a perfect world.