Labels and categories are for tools to turn people into identifable data within a data system. A system that only categorizes based on your cost or value. Those things should not be used to qualify anyone outside of the system, especially for outliers.
The problem is not the labels. The problem is the loss of humanity and perspective taking around the people who are the extreme variations of humanity. This is a system settling on the middle at the expense it's edges. This is not a comprehension issue. This is a capitalism issue.
We need the system to care enough to change the way it functions enough to allow neurodivergents back in the system to serve the outliers, like them.
I hate going to neurotypicals for support or care. They can't see me and these labels provide no stop gaps to prevent their bias from causing me great harm. But a system focused on profit over people and doesn't care enough to change.
I hear you, labels and disgnoses can become a code in a health insurance form or a number on a spreadsheet, impersonal. And I think that can spread into how doctors think about their patients.
Have you managed to find any neurodivergent people who can help?
Yes and no. Yes in the general spaces in nurses and day to day care. No for specialists. The lack of neurodivergents in medical specialties, especially in anesthesia, has almost killed me. I expect someday it will.
Good morning! I had to really think about your question. Yes, all these games have rules, and abstract qualities like that do matter. Also, games are all played for fun. However, especially for unwritten rules, other things besides games have those, too (workplace politics, another neurodivergent minefield, for example 😉 :wink:). And, people do things for fun other than games, such as art, going to concerts, skydiving, etc. I think it's the combination of rules + fun that sets games apart as a meaningful category. What do you think?
Thank you! I guess it comes through that on some level, I'm that little neurodivergent kid saying, "look at this cool, important thing I found, maybe you'll like it, too!" (OK, sometimes I'm also the one arguing to adults in charge that xyz isn't fair, but ideally that's not the main tone that comes through, lol).
Labels and categories are for tools to turn people into identifable data within a data system. A system that only categorizes based on your cost or value. Those things should not be used to qualify anyone outside of the system, especially for outliers.
The problem is not the labels. The problem is the loss of humanity and perspective taking around the people who are the extreme variations of humanity. This is a system settling on the middle at the expense it's edges. This is not a comprehension issue. This is a capitalism issue.
We need the system to care enough to change the way it functions enough to allow neurodivergents back in the system to serve the outliers, like them.
I hate going to neurotypicals for support or care. They can't see me and these labels provide no stop gaps to prevent their bias from causing me great harm. But a system focused on profit over people and doesn't care enough to change.
I hear you, labels and disgnoses can become a code in a health insurance form or a number on a spreadsheet, impersonal. And I think that can spread into how doctors think about their patients.
Have you managed to find any neurodivergent people who can help?
Yes and no. Yes in the general spaces in nurses and day to day care. No for specialists. The lack of neurodivergents in medical specialties, especially in anesthesia, has almost killed me. I expect someday it will.
Good morning! I had to really think about your question. Yes, all these games have rules, and abstract qualities like that do matter. Also, games are all played for fun. However, especially for unwritten rules, other things besides games have those, too (workplace politics, another neurodivergent minefield, for example 😉 :wink:). And, people do things for fun other than games, such as art, going to concerts, skydiving, etc. I think it's the combination of rules + fun that sets games apart as a meaningful category. What do you think?
Thank you! I guess it comes through that on some level, I'm that little neurodivergent kid saying, "look at this cool, important thing I found, maybe you'll like it, too!" (OK, sometimes I'm also the one arguing to adults in charge that xyz isn't fair, but ideally that's not the main tone that comes through, lol).