One of the things that I have struggled with all of my life is that I am neurodiverse. The meaning of that word has changed so much during my lifetime to make it confusing to almost everyone. I want to start off this post by saying:

We Are Irreputably A World Of Diverse People

The more I study this topic the more I am convinced that diversity in all its forms is what makes us human. It is what makes each of us unique onto ourselves. Without diversity we are no different from robots who are programmed for a task and only that task. Plainly speaking, without diversity, we as a species, would have never existed.

So, why do so many people today want to strike down any semblance of our differences? Those in their red hats seem to think that the world would be a better place if everyone thought as they have been taught to do. A big part of this indoctrination is religious based. They seek to make the U.S. a theocracy. The inevitable problem with that solution is which of the 50,000 or so versions of religion in the world today (35,000 of them are Christian). So, what will they base their theocracy on? Even if they managed to accomplish making my country a theocracy, it wouldn’t be long before a fracture inevitably took place. One of the other 49,999 would try to take their place, and the story repeats and repeats.

With that rant done, it’s time to move on to the point of the post.

If I can accomplish one thing with the time I have left on this earth, it would be to get a few others in this world to understand that embracing our diversity instead of fretting over it is the secret to our continued existence.

Sameness is boring and extremely uncreative. It is a stifler in life. It is something we should fight to the very end.

I want to use the rest of this post to concentrate on one area of diversity that is essential to understand before we can accomplish all the others. That diversity is neurodiversity.

Plainly speaking, no two of us think the same way. We all have our unique differences in what we consider correct/moral/ethical/God-Given/virtuous/righteous (and a hundred other descriptions of life). The blending of our corporate thoughts is what allows us to thrive. Celebrating our neurodiversity is a “must” in that regard.

I will admit that I am frustrated with the academic arena, when it comes to understanding neurodiversity. One part of that frustration is their attempts to often merge things they don’t presently understand into one broad category. That makes life easier for them, but worse to those affected by that decision. Maybe even worse is to give those final broad categories a name that implies imperfection, or disability. Such words as “Syndrome”, “Disorder”, “Imbalance”, and a myriad of other non-descriptive words are generally used to describe neurodiversity. In my mind, part of this misdirection is due to lack of academic studies. For example, Autism studies are presently focused almost totally on children and how to “fix” them. There is little, or no effort to understand Autism characteristics in adults who have live with those characteristics all their lives.

Let’s close out this dissertation with a fundamental thought. Instead of focusing on narrow areas of neurodiversity, we must first understand that neurodiversity is simply a normal spectrum of the overall human mental processes.

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