Jonathan Mooney
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first heard Jun 2021
last heard Dec 2024
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You know, your question, your question was, uh,
about the next book project in part or the, the, the preface was, and your question is directly linked to that.
So I, I am in the middle of, of trying to get my, my mind around the nerd diversity movement and write about the social consequences of what is a pretty, pretty profound and radical claim that there is no normal brain in
The human experience is defined by neurodivergence and cognitive difference.
And that claim has real profound consequences to our social systems, to our interpersonal relationships, to the way that we think about learning, working, living.
I'm very much in the throes of trying to make sense of those consequences, to make sense of where we are as a social movement, what's been achieved, what are the setbacks, what's the progress.
So let me share a few things, and these are in no way fully formed ideas, hence the crying on the inside when I try to actually write the book, and often crying on the outside.
The neurodivergence movement is so multifaceted and encompasses so many different cognitive and brain-based experiences.
that I'm hesitant at times to generalize and paint with a broad brush, but here it goes nonetheless.
So first, it's been a seminal breakthrough for our community to claim and unite under the language of neurodivergence and neurodiversity.
I think some of us who have been at it for a long time maybe lose sight of what a profound moment in advancing our cause that is and was.
Just to give you a kind of personal anecdote around that.
So my second book, The Short Bus, came out in 2009.
And for that book, I drove all around the United States.
The map you see behind me is actually the map I put up in my office in New York when I was writing to kind of remember the journey.
And when that book came out, about a year afterwards, when I was done traveling around talking about it, I told my agent that I wanted to write a book about neurodiversity.
And her response was, what the hell is that?
What is that?
What are you talking about?
Why would people read that?
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