The Victimhood of Neurodivergency.

Trigger warning for some. This may have content that one may find challenging to deal with. Reader discretion is advised.

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It has been a little while since i have written a blog but today I encountered an interesting development in one of the facebook forum pages I have been following for personal reasons, but it has highlighted an epidemic mindset within the neurodivergent community which is the shame and guilt of being labelled as a disabled person because the cognitive bandwidth of being 'spectrum' does not conform with the archaic 'standards' of cognitive awareness that nuerotypicals subscribe to.

Explosive venting meme of victimhood about neurodivergency found on a forum

A patronising meme of the actual reality truth about whats needed to progress and rise above from the damage of the one above.

The first exampled meme above is what I encountered on a 'doomscroll' of looking at how other people are managing their lives with the circumstance of neurodivergent stereotyping. It was the header post, the be all and end all toxic dump vent that was made for drama, attention seeking and had no real context to its posting. Narcisistic in tone and purpose. Someone who enjoyed the energy that it provoked for their own self pity and frustration quite possibly.

The second was in the comment section of a post and the victimhood is examplified as being an obvious dismissal in the bare bones truth of rising above the victimhood of neurodivergent stereotyping. Where the sender of positive and truthful acknowledgement was met with despondancy by the reciever as though the sender did not understand what it was like to be despondantly neurodivergent..

Interestingly, these were both posted on a neurodivergent themed support and awareness facebook page that gets quite a few followers. Whats also interesting is that both were delivered pessimistically. Yet how it is interpreted by someone will influence whether that person is going to interpret it as victimhood reinforcement, or recognise it as the logic for a mindset change to step out of victimhood.

1. It is the neurotypical society, and 'experts' of that society in human sciences which deem that anyone who does not have linear thinking or awareness is 'disabled'.

2. It is the neurotypical society, and 'experts' of that society in human sciences which also like to label everything and anything 'for greater understanding and processing for assimilation' within a traditionally neurotypical environment and world.

3. Up until the 20th century, there was no such thing as neurotypical and neurodivergent.

4. Up until the 20th century, (the 20th century also known as the 'industrialised era' society) the world was full of creatives, muses, socialites, peasantry, theologians and aristocracy. It is within these demographics that 'neurodivergents' could live and exist without labelling or stigmentisation because their 'disabilities' were actually 'strengths' in their non industrial environments.

So when I hear a neurodivergent claim to be disabled, what I am hearing is the rhetoric of neurotypical experts gaslighting and shaming these people for being different because their awareness is spatial and not linear.

I do not however, take this issue up with people personally, I respect each individual being at a different stage of their life journey and awakening, and the time for them to realise themselves that they are not 'disabled' just at times incompatible to industrialised modern systems and structure markers, will happen on its own when it is meant to.

But the fact is, neurotypical people are not 'disabled' they are merely different. They are still intelligent, they are still powerfully talented and aware beings. But because they percieve their worlds with spatial cognitivity and not linear cognitivity, they are now being exposed for being dysfunctional to the 20th century industrialised living standards, and collectively, much like cattle, are herded into this false sense of support and security of recognition through labelling.

Neurodivergent people are fully functioning. They are fully abled. They are just doing it with-in a spatial framework.

So just to quickly sum up the definitions of linear and spatial awareness.

Linear awareness, so that is the neurotypical cognitive standard, is where everything in existence flows from point a to point b. A line of direction is needed in order to start at point a in order to reach destination point b.

So this means that from everything being cause and effect, past present future, something going from positive to negative... it is all linear.

Apply that in the basic life experience and you engage with cause and consequence, begining and end.... a linear pathway to action and behave, to think, assess and formulate.

An typical example is, a human will be presented with a goal that needs to be attained. So the neurotypical would be, 'okay, I have to submit a report by the end of the day. So i will do it by starting the begining section in the morning, have lunch and tackle the middle of the report, making sure that by dinner time I will have had the conclusion completed.'

They set about this goal task in it's linear fashion and once the goal is complete, it is submitted and considered complete and done. When another report request comes up in the future, the same process will be undertaken for the same result, the next time.

A spatial cognitive awareness however is not structured to perform this way.

If you were to think of brains as computers, the linear awareness is the DOS operating system. It receives a set of instructions, it follows the steps and completes the task.

But then when creativity is needed, or a more intuitive awareness is performing the narrative, its like the computer is asked to run a Windows program on an Apple Mac. Not only do incompatibilities start becoming an issue of data jams, distorted glitches, bug outs and forced shut downs, the basic programming simply just does not enmesh together and instead creates dysfunctional operative outcomes that can result in failures.

Neurodivergent people are the Windows programs, metaphorically the spatial visual led programming system, whereas the neurotypical people are the Apple Mac programs, and yet if you tried to force them together to work as one to replicate an enmeshment equal to a DOS motherboard system, its chaotic, corrosive and slows the entire system down when it doesnt crash.

Neurodivergent people are in essence spatial awareness operating humans.

Basically instead of percieving and experiencing a linear world, their world is actually a kind of point zero world. Where everything is anything and all contained within an arena of 360 degrees. So there is no obvious linear line between point a and point b, because quite simply, point a and point b are mute and instead just exist as 'ab' (or one point which is the human itself). Why is there a need to formulate a linear pathway from one spot to another when already the arena is revealing the mergent outcome in an instant.

Their consciousness and brain functioning is not broken, it is not dysfunctional, it just needs a compatible motherboard (environment) to run its program on and to do this side by side with Neurotypicals, it requires the Neurotypicals to begin by stopping the analysing and labelling of the Nerodivergents as broken or disabled in comparison.

It means allowing neurodivergents to process their worlds outside of the pre-determined industrialised standards and allowing them to thrive and flourish in the spatial awareness humanity has been enjoying for millenia.

With the progression of industrialisation, these natural talents and skills become effectively diminished, and that is why today we are seeing so many neurodivergents being 'outed' as it gets harder to assimilate their talents and strengths in a progressively more linear world.

Each time that a lost and disorientated nuerodivergent seeks understanding of self, (triggered almost always as a result of not being able to compatibly live in a standard industrialised environment) they approach a neurotypical for an explaination and a judgment of compatibility to the industrialised standards of 'normal' and end up walking away gaslit, misinformed, misguided and worse still, no more supported or enlightened than they were to begin with.

The walk away is just a label of judgement, but no actual understanding of the spatial cognitive awareness consciousness, just an acceptance that they are different from the normal, and that they are doomed to be forever 'disabled'.

Conformity being the industrialised agenda for a productive mechanical consumerist existence, means that neurodivergents are a soft target for categorisation, and manipulation of compliance.

Rather than acknowledging their spatial awareness, and finding deep transitional changes to create more balance, as a minority population, neurodivergents instead find themselves medicated, or put in the too hard basket, or eroded down into submissive belief that they are not going to ever be fully normal.

We currently are seeing entire recent generations, especially since the turn of the 21st century, now being conditioned through institutionalised education. A form of compliance training to nurture the neurotypical to develop within them. Like neurodivergency was some maladapted or maligned freak of nature that needed correcting.

Labelling them as a disability (despite it being ironical that they are indeed fully able in a spatial world), stems the flow of neurodivergents pushing for deep seated change in the standards that make up a 'typical world'. It places the blanket of victimhood on them so that they in turn dont explore from themselves or each other what it takes for a spatial world to become the new 'normal' or new 'typical'.

What is needed is for neurodivergents to rise above this accepted label of disability and start looking at their strengths and talents which stretch across both worlds. It is a superpower, because it does mean taking that natural strength and letting it actualise into something positively contributive to the world scope which also allows them to recognise and learn acceptance of themselves independantly and which does not make them by definition as disabled.

It is something they can achieve across both planes, but which the neurotypicals can not replicate or conduct themselves in return. And this is why it (the term of 'superpower') is indeed terminology that is apt to the situation and circumstance of this era of consciousness.

So much energy, so much angst and pain experienced by neurodivergents to try and conform and abide by neurotypical methods, ideologies and linear awareness just builds frustration, resentment, heartache and defeatism. And psychologically that can become a needless vicious never ending cycle of self torture and abuse.

Least of all, it is a distraction to their true needs of finding self acceptance so that they may introspect themselves and identify those things about themselves which are truly indeed able bodied and equally if not more important to identify and apply in the everyday life experience. These identities and strengths are scary to neurotypicals, because neurodivergents are quite literally becoming the new human consciousness upgrade, and if they thrive, then neurotypical will eventually become superceded.

Neurodivergent victimhood doesnt have to be part of the narrative though with the right support, right mindset, and right set of values and beliefs. It is hard work, but worth it in the successes that arise in outcomes.

I have lived experience to know this and have produced results of this in my own neurodivergent children in their upbringing when the neurotypical world closed down in on them.

Even when the Australian Government selected my child out of tens of thousands to closely observe and study the neurodivergence in their childhood development and testing data through the use of them in the formative education system during the late 1990's and later in the homeschooling phase in the mid 2000's when the department agreed to allow spatial themed homeschooling to progress where the institutionalised schooling failed them, did it not be more clearer than ever, that spatial holistic approaches had more impact and successful outcome for the neurodivergent than the traditional institutionalised neurotypical ones.

With some strategic therapy, open support and diligent self work, the neurodivergent can integrate into a neurotypical world when necessary and alight back into their spatial neurodivergent world on whim and do it successfully and happily. Without relying on medications, without neurotypical 'expertise' or labelling or judgements.

It takes the neurodivergent 'elders' to lead the way for the coming generations in making co-existence successful in a healthy functional way. There is nothing wrong or broken, just need to live to spatial reality, not linear reality. And that is a personal journey, not a collective journey. Supporters walking beside you, not for you on your behalf.

But as long as the loud overbearing beating drum is clanging 'diasbled', 'dysfunctional', 'different' and 'linear is the only way', there will always be needless suffering and distress, confusion and isolation, fear and frustration.

Who wants to step off the drama train and start living to their capabilities and truths?

Something to think about the next time someone vents a loud non contextual meme in the public forum about how they are 'sick and tired of people saying they have a bit of this and a bit of that, and to find their superpowers, when not everyone is like that and it is not as easy as that.'

I hate to tell you this, but it is literally as easy as that. Its the leaving of the 'comfort zone of accepting disability and being downtrodden as such' rather than taking the effort to do the self work to create your own infrastructure to thrive in a spatial reality that is the problem in people.

For when you initialise that, you end up finding your own tribe and create connections while they are doing the same for themselves, and that is when the spatial world opens up as a very functional existence and quality of life alongside to the neurotypical (and even at times slightly overlapping).

Something to think about.