I often think of neurodiversity as operating systems. Most people, the neurotypicals, are running on Windows. But us neurospicy people, we run on Linux. There are a lot of distros, different, but still kinda similar in some ways, you’re usually not taught how to operate them, have to find out a lot by yourself though it isn’t necessarily hard to learn if you’really given the opportunity and your environment just lets you be without too much expectations to run Windows software. And mostly, the normies don’t get it and can’t be bothered to learn about it. (Also there’s Mac but that’s those weird people who say they are different but really only do it for the clout. Or they’re just artists.)
Tbh I’m getting a little tired of neurodivergence being worn like a badge of distinction. People who are neurodivergent aren’t necessarily smarter, more creative or in any other way better than people who aren’t. I’m neurodivergent myself, but so are Musk and Trump FFS.
When I was a teen I wanted nothing more than to fit in, now I’m older I want nothing more than to be seen as weird.
I uninstalled ActLikePeopleExpect.exe, and now I’m much happier.
I still have it i just think it’s a very different version from what everyone else has. Or so I’m told.
Mine is a virus and it’s somehow gotten into my BIOS.
You got to take some shrooms to wipe the BIOS clean and install a fresh OS.
I don’t do enough shrooms
Maybe one day when my survival doesn’t depend on the virus being there I will.
I’m depressed AF and I’m supposed to running PretendingtoBeHappyAndNormal.exe but it crashed because its missing some NeurotransmitterBalance.dll files and I can’t download the .dll because the internet is too slow 🙃
Damn I’m not on the spectrum as far as I know, but I identify with this a lot. Expectations are heavy on the social creature.
Most of these types of posts are not really about autism specifically, it is just about social mores and feeling alienated, something which happens to most non-autistic people as well.
