Jonathan Mooney
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829 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2021
last heard Dec 2024
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Name is Robert.
He's a he's a friend of mine, poet, uh, entrepreneur, dyslexic guy.
And he likes to say, um, use your pain as propane.
And I think that's the tipping point that we have to engender and support in young people.
And again, that tipping point is contingent upon us saying you're not deficient, you're different.
And you're getting the short end of the stick because we've built a system not around the reality of human difference, but around the the myth of human normality.
You know, w what I what I said to that group of young folks um was normal sucks.
And hence the the retraction of the honorarium.
Um
And uh, you know, I've been trying to say that for twenty years everywhere I go, in those terms and and then in others.
And um you know what I what I've seen is this.
I've seen
A story of, you know, one step forward.
Half a step back.
One and a half steps forward, two steps back.
And two things drive that halting progress.
And I do want to say, however, that I do believe we are at an inflection point uh where we can stop the halting progress and have transformative breakthrough.
But to get to that place we have to understand what are the constraints that um is making it so difficult to to have inclusion and social justice for folks with neurodiversity.
Well, the constraints are twofold.
One
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