Thank you for for candor and self awareness in your response. Helps me synthesize ideas about possible future investigations. The broadness of the neurodivergent spectrum inclusive defintion is a good and bad thing. The term has a nice ring to it, but its broadness means that their are a wider variety of malingerers on the outer edges. As the edges get wider the more of that happens. I am more fond of direct identification of diagnoses instead of the conglomerated term. What are your feelings about self-identifying or being identified as neurodivergent? To clarify the question, do you find the label positive or negative compared to the label ADHD?
I see it as a positive label. But I understand why it can be used to describe the “other” and how the other has always been used in the past as a negative.
In my professional experience, I rather say I have ADHD as a first, to prepare the relationship for what is to come lol (missed deadline, extensions, etc) and then later on when bugged about my quirkiness I’ll just call it being neurodivergent because it humanizes me and doesn’t label me as my disorder. It’s a way of saying I’m just different like that and think differently sometimes without being a super downer.
But that’s me, I’m very open to conversation about anything and I know some people are very private about their diagnoses.
Thank you for for candor and self awareness in your response. Helps me synthesize ideas about possible future investigations. The broadness of the neurodivergent spectrum inclusive defintion is a good and bad thing. The term has a nice ring to it, but its broadness means that their are a wider variety of malingerers on the outer edges. As the edges get wider the more of that happens. I am more fond of direct identification of diagnoses instead of the conglomerated term. What are your feelings about self-identifying or being identified as neurodivergent? To clarify the question, do you find the label positive or negative compared to the label ADHD?
I see it as a positive label. But I understand why it can be used to describe the “other” and how the other has always been used in the past as a negative.
In my professional experience, I rather say I have ADHD as a first, to prepare the relationship for what is to come lol (missed deadline, extensions, etc) and then later on when bugged about my quirkiness I’ll just call it being neurodivergent because it humanizes me and doesn’t label me as my disorder. It’s a way of saying I’m just different like that and think differently sometimes without being a super downer.
But that’s me, I’m very open to conversation about anything and I know some people are very private about their diagnoses.