eateroftrees Asked
QuestionUh they never actually STOPPED trying to 'fix' neurodivergent people; it's sort of the norm to have people try to lock you up and drug you and brainwash you until you either are superficially normal or too drugged up to be a nuisance anymore Answer

Yeah. I know. I think H was talking more about mental illness (the sort of mental illness where it isn’t so much neurodiversity, like autism and actually people in shit tons of pain mentally)

Mental illness and neurodivergence can… um diverge (I really couldn’t think of a better word, this is not a pun) in terms of needs. There’s a lot of neurodivergent variations out there where all the pain folks are in is from society. Like Autism. And then there’s mental illness where a lot of cases have people in pain not cuz of society but in general.

Like depression.

In those cases there’s different needs involved but neither groups should be shat on and messed up. Needs just need to be met.

Of course, people haven’t really stopped fucking up the mentally ill either so your point still stands. It’s just more subtle now.
  1. Date Posted Icon 10th February 2012
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  1. eateroftrees said: Uh yeah I am talking about mostly bipolar/BPD/severe depression/anxiety which are typically considered neurodivergent but it’s basically anything severe enough that you can’t function in society.
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