Jonathan Mooney
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829 appearances
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first heard Jun 2021
last heard Dec 2024
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It's advice that at times I have given because the reality of the situation is
at times, of the reality currently facing us is that this can call somebody out.
This story about themselves can be picked up by others and misused.
But diagnosis is a chance for deeper understanding.
And we can contest what story diagnosis is tell or don't tell.
The notion of diagnose has Greek and Latin roots to just mean to understand.
It's been pathologized and it's been interpolated within a pathology discourse, but that's not what it's all about.
And so there's a movement of psychologists, psychiatrists,
who are authentically neurodivergent affirming, who have done the deep work of extricating themselves from the pathology model exclusively and broadening it and are telling a different story.
So one of the things that we can do is for our own children, seek that out.
um as a community surface and share so it's easier for others to seek out because it's really hard to find like who's who's really doing uh neuro divergent based assessment and affirming assessment so we can be conduits and catalysts to sharing that good work and then as advocates we can be going to the scalable systems of higher education the professional associations and
And and advocating for the critical opportunity in a child's life, an adult's life, anyone who's going on this notion of diagnosis of oneself to have a.
full story of what neurodivergence really means that then they are equipped with to navigate their own life, the systems they find themselves in, and informs the story that they tell themselves.
So that's one path on that.
The other path I want to say, and it's a good one for us to end on because it's affirming of my prefatory comment about this community, is we got to find community for the neurodivergent.
I tell this story all the time.
It's an important story for me to retell.
I had a plan for suicide when I was 12 years old.
I was the stupid, crazy, lazy kid.
I was not different.
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