mental illnesses ARE NOT chronic illnesses.

neurodivergencies & neurodevelopmental disorders ARE NOT neurological disorders.

neurodivergent DOES NOT exclusively mean neurodevelopmentally disabled/disordered.

autism & ADHD/kineticism ARE NOT intellectual disabilities.

these words mean things, and respecting what they mean is important.

especially with the misapplication of "chronic illness" and "neurological disorder," it makes community building and just living immensely harder for physdis folks.

neurodivergent people have pretty much every word on the planet to make tags out of. i know this because i use those tags.

physdis people really only have our disorders' tags, #spoonie, #physdis, #chronicillness & #chronicallyill, and #cripplepunk.

and when #neurodivergent folks refuse to just use the tags that accurately represent their experiences, it really fucking sucks, especially because as a population, we're way less likely to be able to meet up because *we don't have ramps.*

also yeah #ND and #NDD are two different things, ND is an extremely broad category on purpose.

other tags:
#psa #adhd #kinetic #autistic #actuallyautistic #disabilityjustice #neurodiversity #neurologicaldisability #kaleidoscopic #mentalhealth #crippunk #cpunk