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Although psychiatry is relatively new and pathologising neurodivergent traits is also new... neurodivergence is not new. And before we were pathologised we were far from being accepted or supported.
Before we were labelled “disordered” we were just labelled as having “poor moral character” and dismissed from society as being fundamentally shitty people??
what we have now is far from perfect but. I don’t... I don’t think that was better.
what we have now is far from perfect but. I don’t... I don’t think that was better.
I’m not even 40 years old but I remember when ADHD started to be talked about in the media and be diagnosed routinely in the 1990s.
And you know what they said then? The same as they say now. That ADHD is just a label for kids with shitty parents.
And you know what they said then? The same as they say now. That ADHD is just a label for kids with shitty parents.
And do you know what they said before “parenting” became such a thing and parents became responsible for every aspect of their children’s character and development?
That we were just shitty people who would never amount to anything and nobody should waste their time on us.
That we were just shitty people who would never amount to anything and nobody should waste their time on us.
Before contraception and vaccination made it common to not have to worry about how many of your babies would die people didn’t have the capacity to focus on the emotional development of their children.
So society pressured people to focus on the “good ones”.
So society pressured people to focus on the “good ones”.
New they label us “disordered” and the help they force on us isn’t what we actually want or need.
And that’s shitty for sure.
But it isn’t the modern world or modern psychiatry that causes us to be seen as problems.
And that’s shitty for sure.
But it isn’t the modern world or modern psychiatry that causes us to be seen as problems.
We have always been here. We have always been seen as problems.
It’s just that it’s only recently that anyone has tried to “solve” us.
And you don’t have to be very old to remember when they didn’t try to do that. We were just undeserving fuckups who’d end up in jail?
It’s just that it’s only recently that anyone has tried to “solve” us.
And you don’t have to be very old to remember when they didn’t try to do that. We were just undeserving fuckups who’d end up in jail?
The people trying to fish us out of the trash by torturing us, drugging us, forcing us to be people we aren’t? We don’t have to see them as heroes to recognise that they’re not the ones who put us in the trash and they’re not the ones keeping us here.
We’ve ALWAYS been put here.
We’ve ALWAYS been put here.
