When I was #writing my #book , I was constantly asking the question:

What dies a #neurocosmopolitan #society look like, and how do we get there?

My conclusion (having written and published said book), is thar society is a mixing pot of competing needs, and it is more complicated than simply saying "a world where no one has privilege over another".

#Autopia isn't impossible, but we have a great deal of work to do for #Autistic and #Neurodivergent people to be treated like people.

@theautisticcoach By history, I’ve seen way too many #Autistic people preach mutual aid and express an interest in getting to know other Autistics, only to not follow through when I’m the one who reaches out for support because I’m sad or depressed or something, which is really frustrating for somebody like me who does so much to support others and transform my state into a #neurocosmopolitan society.

Collectively, we need to abandon the pathology paradigm and familiarize ourselves with the neurodiversity paradigm ASAP. I’m tired of seeing so many of us with internalized neuralism. It’s our responsibility to educate ourselves and stop referring to our neurocognitive styles as “disorders.” We can’t afford to perpetuate #neuronormativity.

Broadly speaking, we must embrace our role as human society’s cultural immune system and advocate for democratization of the workplace, so that we can transcend capitalism, which is, to quote #ActuallyAutistic #physicist Albert Einstein, “the real source of the evil.” Time to organize!

It would seem that an #Introduction is in order. Greetings, fellow #Mastodon and #fediverse users!

My name is Bruce W. Wenzel. I’m a nearly 26-year-old #neuroqueer master’s student in #sociology at Minnesota State University, Mankato. I’m also the founding president of the #Neurodiversity Activists at MSU, Mankato and Senator of Graduate Studies in Student Government.

I’m on a mission to learn to guide humanity to climb the Kardashev scale and thereby transcend capitalism and the Big Freeze. Unfortunately, the enforcers of #neuronormativity have held me back from realizing my true potential.

That’s why I’ve organized a grassroots campaign to ban all forms of #ConversionTherapy, including behaviorism, which manifests in Applied Behavior Analysis and its insidious derivatives. I don’t tolerate intolerance, so I’ll be unapologetically forthright in my opposition to pathologizing neurominorities to justify social hierarchies under capitalism.

Like #ActuallyAutistic physicist Albert Einstein, I believe that “The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is … the real source of the evil.” Hence why I advocate converting #neuronormative capitalist enterprises, particularly public colleges and universities, into #neurocosmopolitan worker cooperatives, so that we can produce what @jornbettin termed “the agents of a well functioning cultural immune system within human society.”

You can find links to my work under the “About” section of my profile. I’m especially proud of independently coining the terms “institutional neuralism” and “neurological battle fatigue,” which are the neurodiversity-equivalents of institutional racism and racial battle fatigue. For the record, I believe that one’s neurocognitive style should, like one’s gender identity, sexual orientation, or romantic orientation, be discovered, not diagnosed.

Thanks for reading!