Eye contact and doing well in school aren’t for my benefit. I don’t particularly care if you look me in the eye, but we as a species perceive it as a sign of attentiveness, empathy, trustworthyness - on an unconscious level. Which is different from being wary of left-handed people, since that was mostly to do with believing retarded church rhetoric and making a choice to discriminate based on it, rather than instinctual reading of body language making you not trust someone if they don’t look you in the eye. And I don’t think I need to explain why doing well in school isn’t for others’ benefit.
We all wear a mask in public. Yours may cover different things than mine, but let’s not pretend you’re the only group of people wearing one.
But all that is irrelevant. All I said is, it shouldn’t be advertised that “my parents beat the ADHD out of me and it somewhat worked to make me fit into society”.
“Everyone is wearing a mask” is papering over the fact that for some that mask weighs way heavier and does damage to their mental health. Masking ND is not the same as having to put on a nice face when you don’t actually feel like it.
Eye contact and doing well in school aren’t for my benefit. I don’t particularly care if you look me in the eye, but we as a species perceive it as a sign of attentiveness, empathy, trustworthyness - on an unconscious level. Which is different from being wary of left-handed people, since that was mostly to do with believing retarded church rhetoric and making a choice to discriminate based on it, rather than instinctual reading of body language making you not trust someone if they don’t look you in the eye. And I don’t think I need to explain why doing well in school isn’t for others’ benefit.
We all wear a mask in public. Yours may cover different things than mine, but let’s not pretend you’re the only group of people wearing one.
But all that is irrelevant. All I said is, it shouldn’t be advertised that “my parents beat the ADHD out of me and it somewhat worked to make me fit into society”.
“Everyone is wearing a mask” is papering over the fact that for some that mask weighs way heavier and does damage to their mental health. Masking ND is not the same as having to put on a nice face when you don’t actually feel like it.
You have to remove the ableist slurs