As part of what we do, we hang out in a lot of communities, both online and offline. Science communities, philosophy communities, psychiatry, sociology, healthcare, neuroscience, education, academia, parent groups, carer groups, family groups, peer support groups, etc.

We have to advocate for our lives in all these realms. We understand and reflect the language of these spaces, by existential necessity.

We spend a lot of time soaking up the assumptions and semiotic domains of others so we can communicate with them in their own framing. Reciprocation is rare. The triple empathy problem is ours alone to navigate. Our knowledge is dismissed in acts of epistemic injustice.

semiotic domain = affinity group + situated meaning = group of people with something in common and the culture and language particular to the group

triple empathy problem = the friction of communicating between different neurotypes (ADHD, Autistic, Neurotypical, etc.) and semiotic domains at the same time

epistemic injustice = the unfair distribution of knowledge and credibility based on social, cultural, or institutional biases

double empathy extreme problem (DEEP) = disconnect from each other, our own bodyminds, and nature that obstructs empathizing across cultural, sexual, political, religious, neurodivergent, and any other cross-section of differences

We want all of the silos and specialties to get a dose of neurodiversity and disability studies.

Neurodiversity discourse has features that make it more welcoming to us. When a community is informed by neurodiversity, we have a lot less work to do.

Neurodiversity framing and discourse is where we feel at home, because:

• Neurodiversity is where science and philosophy meet intersectionality and embodiment and get improved.
• Neurodiversity brings voice into empirical constructs and translates voice into academic comprehension.
• Neurodiversity is highly interdisciplinary and syncretic.
• Neurodiversity challenges scientism.
• Neurodiversity challenges ableism, behaviorism, and eugenics.
• Neurodiversity rejects the idea of neuronormativity.
• Neurodiversity promotes epistemic justice.
• Neurodiversity respects lived experience.
• Neurodiversity understands labels.
• Neurodiversity is participatory, emancipatory, and activist.
• Neurodiversity examines power and privilege and names the systems of power.
• Neurodiversity recognizes the core insight of identity politics: “the only people who care enough about us to work consistently for our liberation are us.”
• Neurodiversity recognizes the importance of “Nothing About Us Without Us.”
• Neurodiversity helps us tell our truths in such a way that we’re allowing others to tell their truths, too.
• Neurodiversity challenges the idea that the body and mind are experienced separately.
• Neurodiversity creates serendipity.
• Neurodiversity is equity literate.
• Neurodiversity confronts fundamental attribution error and the “conquering gaze from nowhere“.
• Neurodiversity creates a sense of belonging and togetherness to support well being.
• Neurodiversity accepts and embraces differences.
• Neurodiversity is both a concept and a way of engaging the world, first through an open view of other humans, then it takes root as a form of healthy openness itself.
• Neurodiversity is punk.
• Neurodiversity is intersectional.
• Neurodiversity is queer.
• ??? What would you add?