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im confused as to what you mean by thisRoosterDance wrote: Fri Apr 17, 2026 10:58 pm I would be very against this. Probably because I'm against the very concept of neuro-diversity as well.
I'm curious. Why is that? How would you describe differences among people? Would you come up with a different term for it?RoosterDance wrote: Fri Apr 17, 2026 10:58 pm I would be very against this. Probably because I'm against the very concept of neuro-diversity as well.
When I hear talk of neurodiversity, all I see is yet another arbitrarily defined line to divide people with. Except this one isn't even well defined. How do you even measure neurodiversity? Answer: you don't. Someone just decides who's in that group and who isn't.bnkywuv wrote: Tue Apr 21, 2026 8:42 am I'm curious. Why is that? How would you describe differences among people? Would you come up with a different term for it?
ohhhhhhhhhh i see what u mean yeaRoosterDance wrote: Thu Apr 23, 2026 4:30 pmWhen I hear talk of neurodiversity, all I see is yet another arbitrarily defined line to divide people with. Except this one isn't even well defined. How do you even measure neurodiversity? Answer: you don't. Someone just decides who's in that group and who isn't.bnkywuv wrote: Tue Apr 21, 2026 8:42 am I'm curious. Why is that? How would you describe differences among people? Would you come up with a different term for it?
I would not come up with a different term for it. The very act of doing so is what encourages people to see those in the other group as non-people. Or as some sort of aberration that needs to be corrected.
I would describe the differences in people by saying that people are just naturally different, in ways that go far beyond simple things like skin color or what they like to eat. All too often, people underestimate the extent of natural human diversity and this is a more concrete manifestation of that underestimation. The idea of the neurotypical, the belief that there is some standard that most people neatly fit into, is a myth. It's not accurate and, furthermore, it's too simple.
Life, and especially the people in it, are too complex to be explained by such simple binaries.
It's so abnormal that they have to repeatedly convince every little community to stop doing it. Practically every time a historical western government found a new community (tribe, country, etc), they were more than likely doing it, and they had to be convinced to stop. Unless they repeatedly pump out propaganda in local communities, the amount of people doing it and accepting it creeps up.CantChainTheSpirit wrote: Fri Apr 17, 2026 5:17 pm Maybe as a stepping stone but personally I wouldn't accept it forever. This idea that it's not normal, when apparently the governments and LEA's of this world go on about how it's a pandemic in society with maps everywhere you look. Well which is it? If there are so many maps among us then isn't that kind of what normal means?
I very much agree. It's a type of social engineering that has to be propped up to stay standing.Bookshelf wrote: Fri May 01, 2026 1:26 pm [...] Unless they repeatedly pump out propaganda in local communities, the amount of people doing it and accepting it creeps up. [...]
Very well said. It's imperialism, not nature.Bookshelf wrote: Fri May 01, 2026 1:26 pm It's so abnormal that they have to repeatedly convince every little community to stop doing it. Practically every time a historical western government found a new community (tribe, country, etc), they were more than likely doing it, and they had to be convinced to stop. Unless they repeatedly pump out propaganda in local communities, the amount of people doing it and accepting it creeps up.
Just goes to show how abnormal it is, that without intervention it's everywhere. /s