Sweet Spot

I cannot speak for anyone else, but as someone who has suffered far more from the diagnosis than the condition itself, I'd say you can be far better off without labels. 

It doesn't seem possible for anyone to have a personality or any interests nowadays. Everything is always a mental illness, or 'neurodiversity', or something of that nature.

I think that it's not the lables themselves that cause the problems, but the baggage that goes with them. Back in the day, I remember it just being thought I was either stupid, or 'could do better' as my school reports always said. We used to have eye tests at school then, but they were only for shortsightedness, never for long sightedness or astigmatisms, I wonder how many people didn't do well at school because they weren't diagnosed with an astigmatism for example? I reckon about 60% of my self diagnosed dyslexia was cured by having the appropriate glasses. The problems now seem to be that schools and workplaces can't cope with resonable adjustments, they rarely seem to ask what a reasonable adjustment is for an individual, and instead have some kind of one size fits no one approach. Physically I'm walking wounded, so I get no help because I'm not in a wheelchair.

I do think that normal life is becoming medicalised, periods of unhappiness, grief and depression are perfectly normal parts of life and as long as they don't go on too long or too deep help us cope with other life events. We should stop treating unhappiness and small stresses as disasters needing urgent intervention and instead help people build coping skills.

At least from what I've been told by younger family members no one over the age of 35 is that bothered by gender or sexual orrientation, I hope we can get to this with neurodivergence.

I think that it's not the lables themselves that cause the problems, but the baggage that goes with them. Back in the day, I remember it just being thought I was either stupid, or 'could do better' as my school reports always said. We used to have eye tests at school then, but they were only for shortsightedness, never for long sightedness or astigmatisms, I wonder how many people didn't do well at school because they weren't diagnosed with an astigmatism for example? I reckon about 60% of my self diagnosed dyslexia was cured by having the appropriate glasses. The problems now seem to be that schools and workplaces can't cope with resonable adjustments, they rarely seem to ask what a reasonable adjustment is for an individual, and instead have some kind of one size fits no one approach. Physically I'm walking wounded, so I get no help because I'm not in a wheelchair.

I do think that normal life is becoming medicalised, periods of unhappiness, grief and depression are perfectly normal parts of life and as long as they don't go on too long or too deep help us cope with other life events. We should stop treating unhappiness and small stresses as disasters needing urgent intervention and instead help people build coping skills.

At least from what I've been told by younger family members no one over the age of 35 is that bothered by gender or sexual orrientation, I hope we can get to this with neurodivergence.

I agree about the one size fits all for school and work. My son, although there was some understanding was often expected to be the same as others. I am now having similar problems with work, where I was previously told I can't be treated any different.