I've caught a few of your podcasts (they're all great!) and your intro music makes my brain so happy. 🥰 Do you have a link to it so I can look for a longer version of the song?
@@neurodiverging I didn't see the track there, but I thanks to your link I found it here, too: "Pure Water" by Meydän ua-cam.com/video/xzl8AMgX938/v-deo.html
I'm one of those older ones with the obsolete label, diagnosed in 2002 at 31, unexpectedly. In practice, "support level 1" is, at times, an aspirational thing depending on the person. There are too many variants for saying all with that previous term are support level 1, and that's not even taking into account the factors of how stressed someone is, which I've observed results in increasing support level needs, which hopefully will go back down once the reason for the stress is resolved. Me? I'm without any form of mental illness, and frankly, I don't believe mental illness should be lumped in with neurodivergency along with autism, etc., as that clouds things into the wildness that happens inside tornadoes and nobody can make sense of what happens. Given that, I'm neurodivergent 7 different ways as I understand the definition, and several of those regularly disable me from certain expected levels of function, others, not so problematic. But for me, failure isn't an option with my list of disabilities of their various issues and strengths, they're a standard part of my daily life since I was born. I'm as successful as I am both because and in spite of them, and I feel that constant failure on a daily basis because of them has helped me be far more resilient as a result, because I figured out extremely young that if everything goes perfectly, I should be concerned that I'm dreaming (not daydreaming, aphantasia makes that impossible) and something is about to go wrong 😂! Part of my reason for despising mental illnesses as part of the larger neurodivergence group is that it waters things down into being so vague as to having no practical value. Having been in special education where those with behavioral problems were put into the same classes as those they're most likely to cause problems for, it's just bonkers. No amount of psychological/psychiatric therapy could ever help my disabilities, I was born wired that way. No drugs can "fix" them, either. The one thing I do have where drugs can help is ADHD, but even that has limits, and it's not outside of the realm of probability that due to health issues and neurology/physiology, there's no feasible drug options for that for me, as my neurology is wild enough that I tend to have the atypical results to drugs of many types.
I haven't given this as much consideration as you evidently have, and while it's a cute word it never caught on for me personally anyway, but yeah. something to consider for sure. Tell you what though, lately I have come across takes ostensibly from the left to the effect that the whole idea of neurodivergence is bunk and ableist. Well, they present it as a critique of over-diagnosis, or over self-diagnosis, but if it's not thinly disguising a wish to dismiss lower support needs neurodivergence as being a thing, it's certainly resonating with those who would like to do so. And again, it positions "real" disabled people and their care givers against those who are just "awkward" or "want to be special."
Thanks for speaking about this i feel the same
Good to mull over. That word never rubbed me the right way and i enjoyed listening to your words on this. What you said makes a lot of sense.
Glad you enjoyed it!
It really just creates more confusion when using this term. I’m definitely not for made up words, and prefer using accurate descriptors of things.
I've caught a few of your podcasts (they're all great!) and your intro music makes my brain so happy. 🥰 Do you have a link to it so I can look for a longer version of the song?
Absolutely! www.neurodiverging.com/podcast-index/
@@neurodiverging I didn't see the track there, but I thanks to your link I found it here, too:
"Pure Water" by Meydän
ua-cam.com/video/xzl8AMgX938/v-deo.html
I'm one of those older ones with the obsolete label, diagnosed in 2002 at 31, unexpectedly.
In practice, "support level 1" is, at times, an aspirational thing depending on the person. There are too many variants for saying all with that previous term are support level 1, and that's not even taking into account the factors of how stressed someone is, which I've observed results in increasing support level needs, which hopefully will go back down once the reason for the stress is resolved.
Me? I'm without any form of mental illness, and frankly, I don't believe mental illness should be lumped in with neurodivergency along with autism, etc., as that clouds things into the wildness that happens inside tornadoes and nobody can make sense of what happens. Given that, I'm neurodivergent 7 different ways as I understand the definition, and several of those regularly disable me from certain expected levels of function, others, not so problematic. But for me, failure isn't an option with my list of disabilities of their various issues and strengths, they're a standard part of my daily life since I was born. I'm as successful as I am both because and in spite of them, and I feel that constant failure on a daily basis because of them has helped me be far more resilient as a result, because I figured out extremely young that if everything goes perfectly, I should be concerned that I'm dreaming (not daydreaming, aphantasia makes that impossible) and something is about to go wrong 😂!
Part of my reason for despising mental illnesses as part of the larger neurodivergence group is that it waters things down into being so vague as to having no practical value. Having been in special education where those with behavioral problems were put into the same classes as those they're most likely to cause problems for, it's just bonkers. No amount of psychological/psychiatric therapy could ever help my disabilities, I was born wired that way. No drugs can "fix" them, either. The one thing I do have where drugs can help is ADHD, but even that has limits, and it's not outside of the realm of probability that due to health issues and neurology/physiology, there's no feasible drug options for that for me, as my neurology is wild enough that I tend to have the atypical results to drugs of many types.
I stopped saying Aspergers when I realized paradigms had changed.
I haven't given this as much consideration as you evidently have, and while it's a cute word it never caught on for me personally anyway, but yeah. something to consider for sure. Tell you what though, lately I have come across takes ostensibly from the left to the effect that the whole idea of neurodivergence is bunk and ableist. Well, they present it as a critique of over-diagnosis, or over self-diagnosis, but if it's not thinly disguising a wish to dismiss lower support needs neurodivergence as being a thing, it's certainly resonating with those who would like to do so. And again, it positions "real" disabled people and their care givers against those who are just "awkward" or "want to be special."
What’s wrong with looking sexy or the male gaze??
I’m not sure that’s what neurospicy means.