Thread by @Rrrrnessa

I've been thinking (as I do sometimes) and it has occurred to me that I do not know any actual neurotypical people. I know people who aren't diagnosed, sure, but they're definitely not neurotypical. So if all of us are suffering from depression, anxiety, ADHD, PTSD..etc then wtf?

The answer is the world is fucked and our neuro-divergencies are far more the result of our brains responding to the constant influx of poverty, debt, wars, massacres, political, economic, & social instability than they are just broken on their own.

I'm medicated & it helps. I've decided to be open about my diagnosis and I am a very high functioning neuro-divergent person but I also wholeheartedly believe that neither I nor the vast majority of us would be neuro-divergent if we lived in even a little bit of a good world.

Obviously my PTSD is the result of war and genocide which in a better world would have never happened. My anxiety is rooted in needing to be perfect all the time and overwhelming myself with work b/c I know in this world how much labour I produce is how much I am valued.

There's others stuff there too. My brain is different than some other peoples brains. But my brain is different because it's chosen to respond in certain ways to the crumbling socio-economic hellfire that we live under.

& I think honestly the mental health crisis is going to only get worse because we were never meant to live like this. Under constant threat and with no real stability. With our basic human rights not being met and actively trampled on by governments who are bought by corps.

& I cannot go to therapy because I know that any tools given to me to deal with my neuro-divergency will ultimately fail because they're individual changes and not systemic ones and therefore do not have a tangible impact on the world that surrounds me.

So, it's hard to deal with and as someone who was diagnosed when she was 16...it's taken me a long time to accept the fact that this doesn't really get better until the world gets better. Now, I don't expect a revolution any time soon but dear god if we don't get one.....

If there are no changes, real systemic changes that will directly benefit all the people...I shudder to think about how much worse our neurological response will get to the world. Kids as young as 7 and 8 are experiencing it too. We are in a deep hole and nobody's doing anything.