Jonathan Mooney
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829 appearances
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first heard Jun 2021
last heard Dec 2024
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And I think one of the most important
learnings that we should extrapolate and apply is where I started my answer.
And that's the question of what frame do we use to make sense of those other people in our history or our present life?
Do we make sense through a sort of moralistic frame?
That's certainly the frame that I used for a long time for my father.
You know, he was a, he was a fuck up.
He was, you know, he was a, he was a bad father, you know, literally that, that those words.
And then my growth was,
in, forget the book, I mean, the book is cool and whatnot, but my growth as a human was to reject that narrative frame and to apply a different one.
Now that different frame raises challenges too.
And the challenges are, where does one have individual responsibility for their behavior?
Where does the line between neurodivergent and agency begin and end?
Where did it begin and end with my father?
Where's the line between neurodivergence and agency?
Mental illness, are those the same line and different spots on it?
And addiction, are those the same lines, different lines, intersecting lines?
I don't know, y'all.
But I can tell you it was progress for me personally to reject that moralistic frame, to reject a pathology frame, which is my father is sick, to reject
and then to adopt a neurodivergent historical trauma frame, which in some ways encompasses pieces of those other stories that,
um, but broadens the potential of, of how to make sense of the human beings in our life.
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