i do not believe these words should be abandoned!
in this post i hope to call attention to the same destructive processes happening to “neurodiverse” as to all the other terms. particularly i want to call out the ableist motivations behind it. my intent is to critique society’s weaponization of words, not the words themselves.
If I’m not mistaken, all those other terms were imposed on people not really self described.
I think neurodivergent will survive because people can proud to be neurodivergent. It’s closer to an identity than a prescriptive label.
I for one am proud to be neurodivergent.