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SwayM posted...

Its wrong when the waters are muddied by people who dont have anything but feel like they need to belong to something for the sake of it.

Some people in this topic, including you, seem to assume I dont think neurodivergence exists at all. Getting real mad at demons that arent there.

So, things like that first paragraph are exactly why people are reacting negatively to your topic. People aren't just doing it to feel like they belong. They genuinely have something that puts them in the neurodivergent umbrella, but are just recently able to positively acknowledge it.

As some other posts in this topic have shown, mental illness has been treated really negatively for a long time. Rather than get kids diagnosed and properly assisted, parents would just live in denial.

Because somehow it reflected on them as a parent to have your child be "different". Some would just handwave it away, saying things like "we didn't do that when I was a kid and I turned out fine." And some even resorted to abuse, as with Gremlynn. Now we're finally starting to move past some of the stigma.