This post seems to be some kind of a part 2 to my last post titled: Stepping into the world as a full being. It recieved a lot of positive response online. It has made such a huge difference to me and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. And to all the people who since that post at festivals who have come up to me and told me their name and how I know them, what a game changer !! I cannot even begin to express to you what a difference it has made. My heart is full.

I’ve just been chatting with AI to a couple of questions about the origins of this term neurodiversity (I know, I know, I have a love hate relationship with AI.. it’s all very new to me). I wanted to dig deeper into how the term ‘neurotypical’ got defined and sure enough it confirmed my suspicions (if AI is true). You see I don’t believe that all neurodiversity is a ’sickness’ (for want of a better term). I believe that many traits of neurodivergent people are just that they don’t fit the societal rules and expectations that have been defined in order to control the population, and to make education simpler (as one example). Some of my AUDHD ‘traits’ are not a problem for ME per say but, when I try to fit into the societal rules of engagement they become a problem for me and others/society. So in this way it is not me that is sick, it is the society we live in that is sick. This feels so important to name otherwise we never change society, instead neurodivergent people just continue to get pathologised.

I also feel it’s important to say that I believe some of my ‘traits’ of AUDHD are from early developmental C-PTSD and ancestral inherited trauma, that are damages to my brain that leave me struggling with various things, for example face blindness. But even this I could argue is a limit of society that we are ‘expected’ to recall people we have met and or their names. Why ? Who decided that was normal !! I also believe that some neurodiversities are from ancestral family lineage trauma and human collective trauma. If so, this basically affects pretty much all of us? I think this ‘collective trauma’ is because we have moved so far away from living in a spiritually interconnected way, with nature at the centre of our lives, in community and with healthy food, that it’s really no surprise to me that we have all been negatively affected as a developing species on planet earth.

In short, what I am wanting to open up is the possibility that it is not the neurodivergent that are sick, it is our society that is sick because it tries to funnel us all into a very narrow bandwidth of engagement. It reduces us to very simple beings and as a neurodivergent human. I am deeply spiritual, highly gifted in certain ways and have psychic and seer abilities and I think and feel outside the box. That is a threat to our modern societal norms so it must instead pathologise me and make me wrong.

I don’t like the term neurodivergent as it intrenches the idea that it is wrong (diverted from normal)… it is perhaps helpful in some way at this point in the uncovering of it all to have some kind of labels for us in order to find ways to understand the landscape. I for one resisted the label for a long time but it has actually been really helpful to me in getting to grips with it all and being able to research about it with headings and titles I can look up, so it is great as a stepping stone for sure but it’s not the end game.

Here is what AI said in response to my questions about who decided what is neurotypical and when and the about the % count……not saying it’s fact but I do find it very interesting when we dig a bit deeper and question the narrative..

QUESTION I ASKED:

What are some possible reasons it seems like everyone is now neurodivergent and why are the estimated numbers could be inaccurate

ANSWER I GOT:

The figure that only 20% of the population is neurodivergent is based on including the entire global population count. If you take out the developing countries like large parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America who don’t have widespread neurodevelopmental assessments and only count for developed countries the figure hugely rises to about 40% which starts to make a lot more sense of why it seems like every man and his dog now has some kind of neurodiversity. And to add to this if it is as high as 40% then how can this be ’typical’ because surely the term typical implies the mass majority ?

QUESTION I ASKED:

Where did the term neurotypical come from and who decided what is neurotypical

ANSWER I GOT:

It’s a socially constructed label used to describe people who are able to ‘fit the dominant cognitive and behavioural expectations of society’ In this way it’s contextual. Medical professionals and institutions shaped the term approx 150 years ago by professors in the 1870’s based on Western, white, middle-class populations, shaped by cultural expectations, e.g., how kids should behave in a classroom or adults in a workplace. Politics and society also influenced this: e.g., homosexuality or being left handed was once considered a mental disorder.

All very interesting and this is only the beginnings of my R&D…