Today is a colorful day. Many autistic people identify with a rainbow-colored infinity symbol. Please join in by wearing colorful clothes or wearing anything (a ribbon, a hair bow, tie) with many colors… This is a way to celebrate the multiple ways of being autistic and, more broadly, to celebrate neurodiversity. Neurodiversity includes all types of neurology, by the by. If you are talking about “neurodiverse” people you’re including everything—ADHD, dyslexia, autism, OCD, “typical,” and so on.
People with a neurologically-based diagnosis are neurodivergent. Neurotypical means the person has no such diagnosis. I’ve posted before that “neurotypical” would need to be a diagnosis by exclusion as in “you seem to have no… and we can rule out… so for the time being we can give you a presumptive diagnosis of neurotypicality.”
You’re a so-called neurotypical? Or autistic? Have ADD? ADHD? Tourette’s? Down Syndrome? All neurotypes are amazing. All can contribute to make this world a better place. What we need for that to happen is to provide the support and accommodations that each person needs, so the person can thrive. We need to really interiorize that by providing accommodations to someone you’re not giving them an advantage and you are not providing preferential treatment. You’re just believing that they want to do their best and respecting & supporting their needs. That’s all.
Neuroamazing 