Jun 19
A little something for Neurodiversity Week! (PS. I know giftedness' neurodiversity status is still debated, but this post is aboug cognitive diversity, not diagnosies)
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A little something for Neurodiversity Week! (PS. I know giftedness' neurodiversity status is still debated, but this post is aboug cognitive diversity, not diagnosies)
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May Sarton - Recovering: A Journal (original)
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ٖFor those of you who need to hear this:
‘Stereotypical’ autism exists.
People who flap their hands exist.
People who can’t make any form of eye contact exist.
People with special interests in trains exist.
People with Savant-like mathematical abilities exist.
People who can’t mask exist.
Sure, it doesn’t represent the entire spectrum, but neither does YOUR experience. An autistic experience is an autistic experience is. An. Autistic. Experience.
I'm so torn about the gifted label.
On the one hand, I think the name "gifted" in itself is too hierarchical both for my liking and for the phenomenon it describes to be taken as anything more than "people trying to be special". Like, with a name like "gifted", yeah, I see where people draw that conclusion.
On the other hand, the phenomenon the term describes is very much real. It's part of mine and many other peoples' lived experiences - a heightened inquisitiveness and awareness of/preference for complexity. Gifted/multi-exceptional spaces are some of the only in which I feel like my true experiences and needs are reflected and affirmed. If it's all just "privileged nonsense" (which it isn't - many people who have these traits are often underprivileged in many ways and will have a very different, usually negative experience with these traits as opposed to people who have the same traits but are better-off, better-liked, and tick fewer minority boxes), then all my feelings and needs and those of thousands of other people are, what, nothing? That is an incredibly ignorant stance, and if you hold it, I hope my words can make you reconsider.
I don't know what to do, who to listen to - I don't like being told "just listen to ur heart!!!" bc I doubt myself too much for that, it's not a matter of "just" doing anything. I have these experiences, I have these needs, and I'm tired of being given negative value judgments just for acknowledging them! More importantly, I'm tired of feeling like I'm alone in them. I don't want to feel like a "special exception", I want to hear that I'm not crazy, I want to see that the world has room for me in it.
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Giftedness is not required with autism or adhd. No one owes you talent or giftedness. Stop acting like it’s a requirement!!
there are autistic people that are also gifted in real life, by the way! I know gifted kids are over-represented in media when it comes to autism representation, but when talking about how that’s an issue (which it is, I won’t deny that), could you guys not just say that we don’t exist? as a gifted person that also has autism. hiii we’re real!! we’re not just a trope!!!
forever in the limbo between "i am human and i need to be loved just like everybody else does", "i have bpd. i have hurt people before and i dont trust neither myself neither them to defend themselves around me" and "i have/am ha/g. people are fucking ridiculous i want to disappear from the face of the earth so i dont have to deal with their dumb fucking ass shit anymore SEEING PEOPLE REALIZE THINGS I HAVE REALIZED OVER TEN TIMES BEFORE IS AGONIZING LET ME OUTTTTTTT"