The commercialisation of neurodiversity.

Does anybody else feel that over the last ten years or so, neurodiversity has become 'big business' and has lost its focus? 

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  • Lots of people do have both, but it does often feel like if you don't then you're lacking somehow and not quite autistic enough. It was the same when childhood sexual abuse was found to be so prevalent, those who'd been physically abused or beaten as I still prefer to call it, often ended feeling that their suffering wasn't enough.

    Why people feel the need to lump all these things together I don't know, but is can feel like you're being othered for not being other enough.

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  • Lots of people do have both, but it does often feel like if you don't then you're lacking somehow and not quite autistic enough. It was the same when childhood sexual abuse was found to be so prevalent, those who'd been physically abused or beaten as I still prefer to call it, often ended feeling that their suffering wasn't enough.

    Why people feel the need to lump all these things together I don't know, but is can feel like you're being othered for not being other enough.

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