On July 15, 2021, #Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed an Executive Order restricting #ConversionTherapy, but he never enforced it against people practicing #ABAabuse, the basis of modern conversion therapy.

For two years, I advocated for MSU, #Mankato and the Minnesota DFL Party to #BanABA

Now, on #AutismAcceptanceMonth, the Minnesota Senate has passed SF 23, a conversion therapy ban that excludes #ABA

To #ActuallyAutistic and otherwise #Neurodivergent people who’ve survived #HumanRightsViolations, know that you didn’t deserve any of that awful shit.

The enforcers of #neuronormativity are inhuman, not you.

To reiterate, the path to #NeurodivergentLiberation is through #socialism

Organize.

#SolidarityForever

The enforcers of neuronormativity—the executives of behaviorist intervention industries, politicians, doctors, police, parents, teachers, peers, employers, abusive partners, coercive people in general—conflate “compliance” with “politeness.”

Indeed, part of recovering from internalized oppression means realizing you needn’t be polite to your oppressors.

#Neuronormativity #Neuroqueer #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #KineticAutistic #PluralGang #AutisticPride #AutisticJoy #MondayMorning #MondayVibes #BanABA #AllABA

To dispel the myth that #Autistic people don’t get irony, I think it’s incredibly ironic that the enforcers of #neuronormativity dehumanize #neurominorities by calling our behaviors “unhealthy.” And they say we lack self-awareness. You projectors belong in a cinema.


#ActuallyAutistic #SundayVibes

They basically say as much in this piece.

Imagine if all this effort went into understanding how best to support the children in a way that works for *them*. If that involves being “in themselves” or not going on a swing - why is this bad? #ableism #neuronormativity

Don't forget to add my book to your christmas list! OrPerhaps you know an Autistic person who wants to feel seen?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BL6RX885

@actuallyautistic @bookstodon #actuallyautistic #autism #autistic #adhd #audhd #adhder #audhder #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #autisticauthor #authors #writingcommunity #books #bookstodon #neuronormativity #neuroqueer #neuroqueerness #mentalhealth

What the enforcers of #neuronormativity fear the most is a free, self-educating class of #neurominorities that can dismantle their house of cards with ease
Indeed, they perceive us to be “dangerous” only because we threaten their job security
Long live the #NeuroqueerResistance
#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticPoetry #MondayMorning #MondayMotivation

I'm preparing once again to show you what my perception is of the #LocalNeurodifferentMePerception today on #Sunday.

#NoteToMyself #NoteToSelf:

Don't actually judge anything. Opinions about things won't necessarily help.

I can tell what caught my attention but not whether I like it or not since that could be #judging which I want to avoid, it may lead to judging #SelfControl.

The #perception about #Gaming caught my attention.

The perception about #hyperfocus in #work and #studies also did interest me now a bit extra.

Learning more about #Neuronormativity was the reason I stopped the #summary.

> "Privileging the Neurotypical over the Neurodiverse".

That way of putting it helped my specific #BrainWiring to understand what it means.

Here I type what my mind perceived(in the way of a summary) from toots:

#Perception Of The Most Recent Within The Last <, > or = 7 Hours in #LocalNeurodifferentMe using hashtags:

#food #VeganFood

skipping

#dog #picture #livingthemoment

#emotionalpeople #cats #stressrelief on #campus #yahoo

#amase / #amaseorguk #disabilities

#WhatsonTV #TheSnowman

#olympic #swimming

#caturday #cat

#NoteToSelf #SelfCare #Instagram

#Accessibility #Neurodivergence

#Mastodoninstance related to #Gaming

Caturday cat

I don't know. Skip.

#autistics with #accents

cat #detail #description #accessibility

skipping

#askingautistics relation to #objects and #emotion #sensory

#bouquet #flowers

#picture #christmas

#bedifferent

#embedded #video and #dropbox

#window

#hyperfocus in #work and #studies

#gaming #blizzard #WorldOfWarcraft

#Neuronormativity #Author #NickWalker

I stop here at the most recent 7 hours of activity here on #NeurodifferentMe cause I learnt something new which interested me.

https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=neuronormative&oldid=64826346

"Neuronormative"

#CCBYSA3

> Focusing on, or privileging, the neurotypical over the neurodiverse.

Do you consider this an ok description of the word "Neuronormative"?

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This style of post helped me because my brain often focuses on only a few toots and I don't normally get the #BigPicture. It is because I often can get caught in only living the moment and I have no way to escape the moment to see the bigger picture. This post style helps me to escape.

I try to not judge in how I express what my perception is of everyone's post. I may fail and you may comment on my failure so #icanlearnfromyou.

So I have some presentations available for purchase on my website-

-Understanding #Autistic Wellbeing
-#Neuronormativity: What is it?
-#Autism 101: Understanding why Autistic people may become #addicted to #substances

They can be purchased individually on my website at https://dghneurodivergentconsultancy.co.uk/presentations-and-talks/

Alternatively, you can access all my presentations through the Patron tier on my #Patreon here
patreon.com/user?u=82296416

@Oniricollector @bookstodon @actuallyautistic it's an anthology of essays regarding #neuronormativity in #society and how that impacts on #Autistic #identity and #wellbeing

@biomimic If you want to hold the enforcers of #neuronormativity accountable, sign and share my MoveOn petition to #BanABA and replace behaviorism with #neuroqueer pedagogy. We must prohibit all forms of #ConversionTherapy. No exceptions.

https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/ban-autistic-conversion-therapy-in-minnesota

@actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy @autisticbookclub

This is my newly published essay anthology.

In this book I explore #neuronormativity in #society and how it effects #Autistic #identity and #culture.

I explore my own journey to finding my Self and I consider how we might dismantle the #oppressive structures in society and make a better, more inclusive world.

#actuallyautistic #autism #autisticauthor #bookstodon #author #adhd #audhd #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neurocosmopolitanism

The thing about #Neuronormativity is that it spits in the face of the #neurodiversity movement.

#NormativeViolence is happening every day as the world strives for the perfection of the #normal human, who does not, and can not exist.

#Autistic people are suffering at the hands of a world that seeks our #compliance and #assimilation

Autistic people are born into a neuronormative world where who we are is treated as a broken object rather than a human being. We need to recognise the need for community-connectedness (Botha, 2020 discusses this in their PhD thesis) and it's importance in reducing minority stress.

#actuallyautistic #autism #autistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neuronormativity #pathologyparadigm #neurodiversityparadigm #minoritystress #community #disability

@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!

In short, I draw on recent work in Neurodiversity Studies (Walker, Yergeau, Egner, et al) to investigate the #neuronormativity of narrative conventions, reading #AnUnkindnessOfGhosts by
#RiversSolomon as a site of #neuroqueer #resistance.