Jonathan Mooney

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 420:A Bonus Conversation with Jonathan Mooney About "Normal Sucks," the Neurodiversity Movement, and More · 27 Dec 2024 podcast

Now, that has evolutionary roots, right?

Like, if you look at the evolutionary biology or evolutionary psychology, human beings have acquired value by their ability to contribute to the tribes or groups that they're a part of, or in the hunter-gatherer society, their small band, right?

And so that's a piece that's encoded in some respect, but disability and neurodivergence is a rejection of that.

The movement is, and it's, it's, it's moving away from the idea that like, hold the autism is rad because it helps Microsoft, you know, like, which is kind of the, the, the thing I've said before, you know, so I'm not throwing anybody on under the, under the bus on that, you know, by any means I've been there, I'm trying to wrestle with,

the consequences and the logic of even my own claims.

And so autism is rad, not because it helps Microsoft.

That's not why it's rad.

And it's challenging.

And is it rad?

That's a debate too.

But what it is, is essential.

So I think those are different distinctions, right?

The notion that neurodivergence is valuable to the world is true.

But what is truer, if that's even a word, is that it's essential to the human experience.

And it has value, and maybe the more important word is meaning.

beyond the pragmatic contributions it can make to the system, the hunter-gatherer ban, the city-state, the nation, everything in between.

That's the next horizon here.

And that's a real ethical claim.

And if you look at disability...

writes disability philosophers, the scholarship around that, which predates neurodivergence and in some ways, meaning the scholarship does, not the experience, and also encompasses neurodivergence, but sometimes reluctantly and sometimes tangentially.

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