I think being weird is just embracing yourself.
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neuronormativity = a set of norms, standards, expectations and ideals that centre a particular way of functioning as the right way to function
behaviorism = a psychological theory that would have us focus exclusively on what can be seen and measured, that ignores or dismisses inner experience and reduces wholes to parts
eugenics = the scientifically inaccurate theory that humans can be improved through selective breeding of populations
The forces of neuronormativity feel overwhelming in this age of mass behaviorism and unvarnished eugenics.
…mass neurodivergent disablement and constant, widespread anxiety, panic, depression, and mental illness, combined with systemic discrimination of neurodivergent people, is a problem specific to the current historical era. Hegemonic neuronormative domination, in other words, is a key problem of our time.
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism by Robert Chapman
Against that tide, we embrace our weird potentials. We neuroqueer the social world.
In line with a disability justice approach, one of the more positive recent developments is the theory and praxis of neuroqueering. Stemming from the work of Nick Walker and Remi Yergeau, neuroqueering focuses on embracing weird potentials within one’s neurocognitive space, and turning everyday comportment and behaviour into forms of resistance. This has provided a new tool for combatting neuronormativity from within the constraints imposed by history and current material conditions. By queering the social world, new possibilities are carved out for the future, helping us not just challenge aspects of the current order but to start collectively imagining what a different world could be like.
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism by Robert Chapman
Weird Pride Day is March 4th 2024. Visit the Weird Pride Day website for details.
Weird Pride is the refusal to be ashamed of things people find ‘weird’.
It means taking some pride in the things that make you different from most people: accepting that being seen as weird might be the price for being unapologetically you.
In a society that demands conformity in all sorts of ways, where expressing yourself and caring passionately about things is often viewed as bizarre, owning your weirdness is an act of defiance and a claiming of the right to joy.
Every day should be a Weird Pride Day, but for until that’s possible for everyone, at least we have the 4th of March.
What is Weird Pride? – Weird Pride Day
With all the hate against our loved neurodivergent, disabled, and queer people, we really could use a Weird Pride celebration that brings us all together under the big umbrella of Weird.
Join us in celebration. At Stimpunks, we’ll be hanging out in our community Hyperbeam room sharing penguin pebbles and hopping around other online celebrations.
This is a day for people to embrace their weirdness, and reject the stigma associated with being weird. To publicly express pride in the things that make us weird, and to celebrate the diversity of humankind.
On this day you are invited to write and talk, make art and videos about what people think is weird about you – and why (and how) you accept these things about yourself.
Welcome to Weird Pride Day! – Weird Pride Day
Let’s be proud in a world that soaks us in shame.
It is deeply subversive to live proudly despite being living embodiments of our culture’s long standing ethical failings.
THINKING PERSON’S GUIDE TO AUTISM: ON HANS ASPERGER, THE NAZIS, AND AUTISM: A CONVERSATION ACROSS NEUROLOGIES
In preparation for celebration, visit our Weird glossary page to inspire your weird potentials.
Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.’
Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
Everyone needs to get aboard the solidarity against ableism train, yesterday.
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We are in an era of unvarnished eugenics.
Therefore, eugenics is an erasure of identity through force, whereas radical behaviorism is an erasure of identity through “correction.” This all assumes a dominant culture that one strives to unquestionably maintain.
Empty Pedagogy, Behaviorism, and the Rejection of Equity
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