Neuroqueer Nidoqueen: “Neurodiversity does not mean you should have rights despite what’s wrong with you. Neurodiversity means there is nothing wrong with you.”

Unless your own subjective experience with being neurodivergent is a negative one, in which case feel free to use terms like illness and disorder in reference to yourself, but not to anyone you don’t have consent from.

Also, that still doesn’t mean that having a disorder or illness makes you any worse or less valuable than a non-ill neurodivergent person or a neurotypical.

Unfortunately these distinctions are muddled further by the internalized ableism of people who claim to be disabled by their neurodivergence, or that there is something wrong with them because they cannot live up to the expectations of an ableist society.

–Nidoqueen