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A solid critique of the work I am trying to do with the #wasNotNeurotypical hashtag.
I don’t mean to say eugenics is bad because of exceptional individuals; I’m trying to say that diversity gives rise to new forms of creativity.
The racial critique is spot on too.
I don’t mean to say eugenics is bad because of exceptional individuals; I’m trying to say that diversity gives rise to new forms of creativity.
The racial critique is spot on too.
We all know that the autistic community has a Whiteness problem.
One way to address that would be to identify Autistic people of color not only now but in history.
One person I’m reasonably confident I can claim was both Black and Autistic was Beethoven, who #wasNotNeurotypical
One way to address that would be to identify Autistic people of color not only now but in history.
One person I’m reasonably confident I can claim was both Black and Autistic was Beethoven, who #wasNotNeurotypical
But like. That’s not great, Beethoven is well-known.
Why don’t I know many other geniuses of color from past ages?
Why is Beethoven’s Blackness not common knowledge?
Why don’t I know many other geniuses of color from past ages?
Why is Beethoven’s Blackness not common knowledge?
My god is it Bloomsday already?
James Joyce #wasNotNeurotypical. I read him and his stand-in character Stephan Daedalus both as autistic+adhd.
His daughter was almost certainly autistic before we had words for it.
I need to write this paper.
James Joyce #wasNotNeurotypical. I read him and his stand-in character Stephan Daedalus both as autistic+adhd.
His daughter was almost certainly autistic before we had words for it.
I need to write this paper.
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is a story of a kid who grows up as an outsider to his own culture. He is constantly seeking to understand what makes him unique, what makes him not fit - religion? values? He sets off to find himself.
Short answer: he's ND, without dx.
Short answer: he's ND, without dx.
When he comes back to Ireland a few years later as a young man in Ulysses he's just as alienated, he's living in his own head.
The book gives him three chapters of attention and then sort of restarts with a different protagonist.
The book gives him three chapters of attention and then sort of restarts with a different protagonist.
