Neurotypical INDIVIDUALS do not. You aren’t ever going to get diagnosed as neurotypical.
What does this even mean? lmao
Yeah, you’re not going to go through an assessment and have an expert be all “your diagnosis is neurotypical”, just like how you don’t go to a doctor to be diagnosed as healthy. It’s not a diagnosis. Being neurodivergent means that you can be placed on a spectrum of neurocognitive difference from the norm. If you don’t fall within this spectrum, you are by process of elimination neurotypical.
This is giving “we’re all a little bit neurospicy” and no one’s here for that nonsense.
“Neurotypical” is a term that only makes sense when talking about groups, and in contrast to other groups you are discussing. It only makes sense when you are aggregating populations of people. Referring to an individual as “neurotypical” is nonsensical.
Furthermore, inexpertly diagnosing someone on the bus (or otherwise, but the setting of the meme is a bus so I’m using that) as “neurotypical” just because you don’t immediately recognize any noticeable traits of neurodiveristy is extremely problematic. It’s dangerous to just toss the word “neurotypical” around casually.
You’re aware that no one is diagnosing the men in the image, right? That’s obviously not the point. It seems to me like you’re just arguing out of bad faith.
Do you not know how meme’s work? OP is constructing a strawman. Claiming individuals who are white, middle class, neurotypical, male people exist. Implying causality between these identities and this behavior. Which is racist, sexist, generally bigoted nonsense.
What does this even mean? lmao
Yeah, you’re not going to go through an assessment and have an expert be all “your diagnosis is neurotypical”, just like how you don’t go to a doctor to be diagnosed as healthy. It’s not a diagnosis. Being neurodivergent means that you can be placed on a spectrum of neurocognitive difference from the norm. If you don’t fall within this spectrum, you are by process of elimination neurotypical.
This is giving “we’re all a little bit neurospicy” and no one’s here for that nonsense.
“Neurotypical” is a term that only makes sense when talking about groups, and in contrast to other groups you are discussing. It only makes sense when you are aggregating populations of people. Referring to an individual as “neurotypical” is nonsensical.
Furthermore, inexpertly diagnosing someone on the bus (or otherwise, but the setting of the meme is a bus so I’m using that) as “neurotypical” just because you don’t immediately recognize any noticeable traits of neurodiveristy is extremely problematic. It’s dangerous to just toss the word “neurotypical” around casually.
You’re aware that no one is diagnosing the men in the image, right? That’s obviously not the point. It seems to me like you’re just arguing out of bad faith.
Do you not know how meme’s work? OP is constructing a strawman. Claiming individuals who are white, middle class, neurotypical, male people exist. Implying causality between these identities and this behavior. Which is racist, sexist, generally bigoted nonsense.