It isn’t always mental illness or being different that drives someone to suicide. As Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
When you’re a neurodivergent teen, it becomes harder to accept that the way things are is the way things are supposed to be. You don’t have to accept lies.
I’m a punk. I’m a rebel. I think one of the most badass things you can do is fight the system, and the biggest system there is is the culture of division and the human nature of defensiveness.
The Neurodiversity Movement is a mutiny, and it’s unapologetic, alive, and kinetic. No more can the autism-as-wretched-waif paradigm survive the cultural landscape of Neurodiversity.
The days of apologizing for existing are over. This is not a movement anymore. It’s a revolution.
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