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1659447091 12 hours ago

I have always disliked the "neurological disorder" description.

To me (w/diagnosed ADHD), it's a societal conformity disorder if we want to stick with "disorder". I get why it's labeled that. But it's a disservice to everyone when we conflate a group of people who's only issue/difference is not conforming easily to the social norms created by the majority in-group -- with people that have actual debilitating neurological disorders that affect their, for lack of a better word, able-bodiness...but which does not always interfere with their ability to fall-in-line with social norms (ie, 9-5 schedule, not talking "out of turn", not getting up to walk around every N mins, not climbing on the construction workers' scaffolding after being told repeatedly not too, etc). Their lifestyle changes come as a result of actual neurological disorders, not out of a desire (or need) to function in a socially approved way.

The video was posted 10 years ago, maybe they wouldn't use that now. A better understanding of it is slowly circulating.