When will neurodiversity finally be accepted?

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I'm tired of being treated differently for something I can't help, especially if I don't even know what I'm doing wrong.

When do you think people will finally accept and understand what it really means to be autistic?

When people in the greater society become more educated about autism.

Unfortunately, neurodiversity will never be accepted. The fact that we are Aspies is our problem, not society's problem. Nobody is obliged to tolerate our weirdness. Sad, but true.

When you make a friend, you could educate that friend. Don't just do it out of clear air, though.....do it at an appropriate time--when you feel like you're going to have a meltdown, for example (not during the meltdown).

I think neurodiversity is slowly becoming more accepted--but the progress of this acceptance is not fast enough.

No, while the conceptualization of Neurodiversity (not in the group identity sense) has nurtured the contributions that such neurodivergents (autistics, savants, dyslexics, synesthetes, twice exceptionals and the extraordinarily gifted) have illustrated as well as spontaneity from neurotypical conformism (usually in the minds of pseudo-nonconfromist aspie supremacists who uphold a staunch persecution complex); people will soon realize the incessantly deplorable implications that collective identity politics (in all of its forms) has had on the culture war (Collectivists: traditionalists vs secular progressives – VS – individualists ), the individuality and free will of one’s self, the victim-hood mentality, and ability to resist postmodernist groupthink. Once people have assimilated to embrace voluntary association (the only way to stop the culture war) and repudiate collective ideological-isms, the terminology will probably have infinitesimal influence on society other than volitional means. Just imagine if the autism-vaccine hypothesis was proven in the foreseeable future (I highly doubt it of course), the concept of neurodiversity would ineluctably fall into insignificance and its adherents would face the utmost insurmountable prejudice society would ever knew.

I feel like accepting neurodiversity would require a nearly-complete overhaul of how society works, since society is currently catered towards NTs. And I just don't see a societal overhaul ever happening, sadly.

In terms of "When", that varies initially within the culture's acceptance to difference and the majority's overall knowledge.


If the culture itself is very accepting AND it's majority educated enough: neurodiversity has a good chance to become a part of their norm.

If the culture itself is accepting but lack of knowledge: there will be still less problems in a long run, yet still not yet a part of the norm. The acceptance part might be harder if one refuses to question AND accept of that answer.

If the culture itself is not accepting but do have the knowledge: the problems might be even bigger than their ignorant counterparts; as prejudice are likely be invoked or worse. But has better chance of transcending to acceptance if given enough amount of tolerance.

If the culture itself is not accepting and no knowledge about neurodiversity: like the usual things what neurodivergents has to bear with the neurotypicals' assumptions.


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I don't blame you.

You have the right to be treated decently, if you treat people decently.

Krafty is right about more information being out there being a key. That is true of anything unknown or misunderstood. I think, unfortunately, the fact that NTs look for and need an emotional reciprocation and style of communication which isn't very natural to Autism/Asperger's folks is what the main difficulty might be. The question is how to make something very alien to an NT seem normal and equal in its own right. Particularly when it's not something they feel. You can explain the pain you feel at loud noises or eye contact, but most will not be able to relate to this directly, even if they want to understand.

Arguably, human philosophy, religion, politics, and thought are shaped very much by the fact that there is no species or being with more power pushing us around. This can give us delusions about what we are and our importance in reality. Within humanity, you have this neurodiverse subset, and many NTs may understandably find this whole different perspective difficult to deal with because they don't understand it and it implies that they should change their view of themselves and what they know to be human. Think of the Wrong Planet phrase--imagine of aliens came here which had very different abilities and a wholly different way of communicating. That could scare any of us. So the more accurate information out there, the better. And, as Krafty said, educating what friends you can is probably the best thing, too. The more people that see you as a person, the better. That's all it's really about. Especially since NTs enjoy emotional bonding. I've often felt that some of the resistance to homosexuality is some fear on the homophobe's part that they will have to conform to that preference, when in fact homosexuals are not asking that. Likewise, many NTs may irrationally fear that a society that seems to be filling up with neurodiverse will expect those NTs to change, when the truth is neurodiverse people are probably just looking for understanding and acceptance.