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 that was like 2011.
And so the idea that we can find common cause stories.
and find a common container for very different experiences like autism, anxiety, depression, learning, attention, et cetera, and build a broad coalition is profound progress.
And so I encourage all of us who care about this work to claim neurodivergence, to hold the whole, and when I say whole, I mean the whole continuum of brain differences under that framework and be advocates and champions for it.
So that's progress.
Now, the other side of the coin is while we've gotten really good at talking differently, and that's important because the language we use informs how we think, which can inform how we act.
But the acting differently for folks who learn differently is still lagging.
I mean, to this day, you know, every time I give a talk and I've spoken in all 50 states like five times each, there's some kid who comes up and says, you know, I feel stupid, crazy, lazy.
I feel deficient because of a brain difference.
That's a real thing.
So we've gotten good at telling kids they're all special snowflakes.
We're all different.
We're all special snowflakes.
And then the bell rings and it turns into sit your special snowflake ass down and kind of learn the way that the standardized system tells us to learn.
Now, again, that's a broad generalization.
Are there pockets of real transformation in learning and working and living?
Of course there are.
Have those gone to scale yet?
No.
And that's our challenge.
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