unknought: abcsofadhd:yurioboi:Please stop with this. Disorder is not a dirty word. Disabled is not
unknought: abcsofadhd:yurioboi:Please stop with this. Disorder is not a dirty word. Disabled is not a dirty word. There is a literal difference in an autistic brain vs an allistic brain. My autism affects stuff that doesnt do with modes of production (ex: my social life). I’m sorry but I would still be autistic and I would still struggle w/ daily life in a non-capitlistic society. The difference would be that that society would HOPEFULLY be better equipped with an infrastructure that would better protect ALL disabled people and help them thrive on an equitable basis. That does not NEGATE a disability nor the lived experience of disabled people. Capitalism exacerbates the affect of disability, but it is not the deciding factor in determining what a disorder or disability is. I would like to clarify I did not mention ADHD/ADD as I have done research but I am not a doctor nor am I add/ADHD and I didnt want to trample anyone’s words.Do better. Lemme speak as an ADHDer.Executive dysfunction would still be an issue, capitalism, or not.I’ve struggled to get myself to eat, go to the bathroom when I needed to pee real bad (till my stomach actually hurt).. or my chaotic emotions.Capitalism or not, they would still be an issue. Several points in various directions:I don’t think “capitalism” is really the most useful way to frame these sorts of discussions. Plenty of non-capitalist societies have been shitty to neurodivergent people in various ways. People aren’t generally trying to say that e.g. feudal Europe was a paradise of acceptance of neurodiversity, but rather trying to talk about what things would be like in their preferred society. Framing it in terms of capitalism versus not-capitalism discourages thinking about what features in particular this preferred society would have and how they would produce a difference in our understanding of autism and ADHD.Many of the most undeniably unpleasant symptoms of autism and ADHD look an awful lot like trauma symptoms, and growing up with autism or ADHD is certainly traumatizing for a lot of people. Rejection-sensitive dysphoria as a symptom of ADHD is an especially compelling example to me. Maybe there is some underlying neural mechanism which causes difficulties with focus and attention and also makes you especially sensitive to rejection and criticism, but it seems more plausible to me that the latter is an effect of growing up unable to meet the expectations of authority figures and peers. I think it’s not unreasonable to imagine that in a better world, rejection-sensitive dysphoria would not be a symptom of ADHD.It is nevertheless the case that regardless of how you change society, many people with ADHD and autism will struggle with things that are easy for neurotypical people and will suffer in ways that neurotypical people do not.There is a lot of variation among people with ADHD and autism, and some people could benefit more from societal changes than others. This does not correspond in any neat way to how “high-functioning” someone is in the present system.Even for differences that are bad and would still be bad under any external circumstances, it’s still worth questioning whether “disorder” is a good way to think about them. I can’t carry a tune or run a marathon or consistently remember to eat lunch, but only the last of those is seen as disordered. All of those are things that it would be nice to be able to do, but there seems to be a sense in which only one of them is considered something wrong with me. Is that a helpful way to think about things? I’m not sure, but I think it might not be. -- source link