Neurodiversity and Neurotypical civilization

I wrote this to a younger friend in his final dissertation for his PhD in urban studies.  His committee is pushing him to use autoethnography, a fancy word for lived experience, for his dissertation. 


A saying common among neurodiversity advocates is "If you have met one autistic, you have met ONE autistic".  The spectrum itself is so wide, that being on the spectrum means that you will have little to no overlap in symptoms and difficulties with other autistics, let alone with neurotypicals. 

Thus, while your difficulties and solutions, both coping and masking, work for you, they may not work for others.  

An equal method that may help, at least in your notes, is Aquinian Scholasticism, where you state each point from the Neurotypical point of view, and only after explain from your autoethnic point of view why the current system is not working for you- being open to inviting others to come up with solutions, but realizing that ultimately, as all neurodivergents have to realize, that your brain and soul is truly unique and you cannot expect neurotypicals to change an entire system just for you.

This has been the most hard won piece of wisdom in my own neurodivergent walk- the realization I cannot bend the rest of the world to my view.  I can only present my view, and hope that others find it useful; and I must examine the views of others to find what is useful to my path and what separates me from my eternal destination with God.  I know I am different and accept that civilization will NEVER fully work for me- because if it did, it would ruin civilization for everybody else.

This is the same reason I am a great lover of the doctrine of Purgatory- because Heaven with me as I am, without my sins purged, would be completely insufferable to everybody else including God.

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