#neurominority

[outpouringstorm]

Loch Ness Latte!!!

loch ness latte is my idea for a neurominority friendly coffee shop that i’ve been developing in my head for a couple years

what makes it neurominority friendly?

dim lights

communication whiteboards for nonverbal folks

workers refrain from sarcasm

ordering kiosks

cups or some sort of marker to show if someone is open to talking or not

basic ideas:

shelf for books, movies, cds, + stuff like that on ‘weird’ topics like witchcraft, religion, ghosts, cryptids, aliens, ufos, etc.

shop of wonders stand*

gender neutral bathrooms

food ideas:

snail cinnamon buns

frog bread

witchy tea (herbal properties)

personal pies with sigils

basically different foods and drinks with different properties

uniforms with a black/grey/white/purple/green/orange color scheme - purple ufo design aprons

*the shop of wonders:

divination tools, (ethically sourced) bones, candles, crystals, pins, weird dolls and stuffed animals, crystals, merchandise with the ufo logo

(tagging: @autisticboybreakdowns @snakest1cks @3d3n-r34n1m4t3d )

#loch ness latte #terrifyingly.txt #cryptidcore #witchcore #actually neurodivergent #actually autistic #neurominority #cryptids #cryptid academia #coffee shop #cafe #witchcraft #neurodivergency #neurodivergent #magick #dark witchcore #coffee #autistic #autistic culture #nonverbal #adhd #cryptic coffee #tea

[tic-loud-tic-proud]

Global Tourette Associations Masterpost

People with Tourette Syndrome exist all over the world! Here are all of the global Tourette Associations that I was able to find. If you know of any more, please reply!

Asia

China - Tourette China

Hong Kong - Hong Kong Tourette Association

India - Tourette India (Facebook group)

Israel & Iran - Life's a Twitch Middle East

Japan - Tourette Japan

Malaysia - Tics Malaysia (Facebook group)

Philippines - Philippine Tourette Association

Singapore - Tourette Syndrome Singapore

Taiwan - Taiwan Tourette Family Association

Turkey - Tourette Turkiye (Facebook Group)

Africa

Please comment if you know of any Tourette Associations in Africa!

Europe

Whole Continent - European Society for the Study of Tourette Syndrome

Austria - Tourette SHG Osterreich

Belgium - Iktic Jetique

Czechia - ATOS

Denmark - Tourette Denmark

Finland - Suomen Tourette

France - France Tourette

Germany - Tourette Gesellschaft Deutschland

Hungary - Tourette Hungary

Holland - Stichting Gilles de la Tourette

Iceland - Tourette Iceland

Italy - Tourette Italia

Malta - Tourette Malta (Facebook group)

Norway - Norsk Tourette Foreningen

Poland - Polskie Stowarzyszenie Syndrom Tourette’a

Portugal - Associação Portuguesa de Síndrome de Tourette

Spain - Tourette Euskadi

Sweden - Riksforbundet Attention

Switzerland - Tourette Schwiez

United Kingdom - Tourette's Action (North Ireland) (Scotland)

South America

Argentina - Asociacion Argentina para el Sindrome de Tourette (Facebook group)

Bolivia - Sindrome de Tourette Bolivia (Facebook group)

Brazil - Astoc ST

Chile - Fundacion Amigos del Tourette

Colombia - Vivir Tourette Colombia (Facebook group)

Ecuador - Syndrome de Tourette Ecuador (Facebook group)

Uruguay - Tourette Uruguay (Facebook group)

Venezuela - Tourette Venezuela (Facebook group)

North and Central America

Canada - Tourette Canada

Caribbean Islands - Caribbean Tourette's

Guatemala - Tourette Guatemala (Facebook group)

Mexico - Fundacion Mexicana de Tourette, SC

United States of America - Tourette Association of America

TAA chapters by state New Jersey specific

Australia and Oceania

Australia - Tourette Syndrome Association of Australia

New Zealand - Tourette's New Zealand

#tourettes #masterpost #tourette syndrome #tic disorder #actuallytourettes #actually tourettic #disability #actually disabled #cripplepunk #cpunk #neurodivergent #actuallyneurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurominority

[remedialchaostheory314]

Being around people your own age as an autistic teenager feels like being both the only child and the only adult at the same time

#actually autistic #autistic teen #teen #neurospicy #neurodivergent #neurominority #neurodivergent teen #autism slay

[neurodivergentme]

Neurotypical, Neurodivergent, Neurodiversity - What's the Difference?

Neurotypical, Neurodivergent, Neurodiversity – What’s the Difference?

I’ve been reading a lot about neurodivergence in the past few days and I’ve noticed that the words used make a huge difference to some people. When talking about neurodivergence, a lot of people have a lot of different ideas. I myself want to understand and use the vocabulary of the topic of neurodivergence correctly. I found this article that explains it very well. So I’ll just summarize it for…

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#neruodiversity #neurodivergent #neurodiversity movement #neurodiversity paradigm #neurominority #neurotypical

[anarkittyuwuuniverse]

Okay but I'm actually kind of starting to hate mainstream neurodiversity social media spaces. I hate all those infographics that look like boring corporate power point slides. I hate that neurodivergent has just come to mean autism and adhd while other neurominorities are ignored or even further stigmatized by these spaces. I hate this constant focus on how autistic people can be super empathetic and have lots of friends and work in high paying professional jobs. I hate the demonization of people with low empathy. I hate the empathification of autism. I hate how my friend was called a eugenics apologist for saying it's okay to use the word aspergers. I hate the constant policing. I hate the pathologization of every trait. I hate essentialist understandings of psychiatric diagnoses. I hate the quirkification of it all. I hate the buzzfeedification of mental health. I hate tiktok psychiatry. I hate capitalism selling us back the traumas it's inflicted on us as products.

#neurodiversity #autism #adhd #anti psychiatry

[mothyandthesquid]

The beach is covered in cute stones and pebbles in a variety of colours. Each day I collect a few to take back to the house, and at the end of the holiday I’ll select my favourite as a souvenir.

Taking childlike joy in natural beauty, unconstrained by the judgement of society, is one way autistic flourishing can express itself. It’s also something most people should have the time to enjoy if they wish.

An allistic person might not choose to spend hours searching the beach for special rocks, but everyone would benefit from having the option to express joy their own way.

The conditions that would allow neurominorities to thrive are in all of our interests to bring about. Tolerance and inclusivity for mutual benefit is the message behind my colourway “Cognitive Dissonance” but *surprise* it is not popular!

#mothyandthesquid #yarn #knitting #knit #yarnaddict #crochet #yarnlover #crochetlove

[hermitmoss]

leia organa is autistic

(from: original trilogy, sequel trilogy, kenobi series, various comics and books. this post probably will update!)

being force-sensitive means you access and process information in different ways, and interact with the universe in different ways. textually, leia is part of a neurominority, a small group of people whose brains work in a specific way

as a child, leia often runs away from social situations she doesn’t want to be in, or that she finds distressing.

as a child, leia is bothered by texture, pointing out itchy clothes as one of the main things that bothers her about the senate.

leia is blunt and says what she thinks, very often to the point of being rude, or inappropriate in the context.

“aren’t you a little short for a stormtrooper?”

“i don’t know who you are, or where you came from, but from now on, you do as i tell you.”

“you came in that thing? you’re braver than i thought!”

“your friend is quite the mercenary. i wonder if he really cares about anything. or anybody.”

“i’d rather be digested by a jakorbeast.”

“poe, get your head out of your cockpit.”

“that was impressive. well, mostly.”

leia has trouble identifying and understanding her own feelings, struggling to realise the nature of her feelings for han and luke. she can be unsure whether a relationship is romantic in nature, and seeks to categorize relationships (eg asking obi-wan about his relationship with her birth parents).

“i’m always alright.”

“what are you afraid of?” “afraid?”

despite being a professional politician who knows not to trust tarkin, leia still believes him that he will spare alderaan if she tells the empire where the rebel base is.

“you’re far too trusting.”

leia also has trust in systems when she knows that she shouldn’t.

“the imperial senate will not sit still for this. when they hear you’ve attacked a diplomatic-”

the new republic

leia does what she thinks is right, no matter what. she has a strong sense of justice that doesn’t allow her to be a bystander.

 “i feel like because i can fight, i have to for those who cannot.”

 “but she didn’t do anything!”

leia has a respect for unconventional and unrecognised means of communication, and people who are underestimated or not regarded as people.

forging an alliance with wicket and bright tree village

“but what if he has something to say?”

“he’s rude to droids.”

leia requests clarification when other people might understand a situation from the context. it also occurs to her that she might not be able to speak.

“i can’t talk or i don’t like to talk?”

leia’s first instinct is often to be physically violent when she might have been able - especially as a politician and high-ranking rebel - to talk things out. she often struggles to control her emotions

almost every fight scene she’s in

kicking han’s butt, literally

hitting obi-wan with a chair

slapping and stunning poe

“why, you --”

leia doesn’t understand the implications of inviting han into her room at night, and is horrified and physically aggressive at the idea that she wanted to have sex.

leia often feels isolated and rejected, whether from her family, from the senate, or even from the rest of the rebel alliance. she’s also regarded as cold and unfeeling by some other survivors of alderaan, who are under the impression she doesn’t feel anything about the loss and give her the nickname “ice princess”.

leia sometimes smiles when it isn’t socially acceptable, like when confronted by darth vader.

#leia organa #autism #star wars #* #autistic headcanons #kenobi #ot #st

[think4fkinonce]

Since it's Autism Awareness Acceptance Month, here's a few fun ways to observe it:

1. Make the workforce more accessible to autistic people and other neurominorities. Adjust your ableist standards. Neurominorities do not always have the wide selection of viable jobs that neurotypicals have. In a system where you need an income to sustain food and shelter, firing someone who works very hard to keep up but doesn't move as quickly or emote just so-so can be a death sentence. Its not an exaggeration. If you cut off a disabled or neurodivergent person's income, it's not a simple matter of just finding another job or filing for disability which can take years to get approved. The blood is on your hands. I promise the life of one autistic person is more important than the CEO's boost in profits. Also, this goes for everyone but, pay your people a LIVING WAGE.

2. Make disability services and benefits easier to get on and give people enough get their needs met!!! I do not care if that opens it up for someone to "take advantage" of it. If you're willing to let gobs of disabled people live and die in poverty just because you're afraid someone might cheat the system, you need to get your priorities straight. Besides, if someone's regular job money isn't cutting it and that's what they resort to, it speaks to a much larger issue.

3. Don't support Autism $peaks. No light it up blue. Whether you're in favor for a so called "cure" or not, it's still not ran by actual autistic people (you know....the ones that have the perspectives to actually have a say?). Support neurodivergent ran groups instead. Research is still really important but it's not all about finding a cure. It's also about finding ways to mitigate specific traits and fixing environmental factors.

#autism #actually autism #autism acceptence month #autism awareness

[voyageviolet]

It breaks my heart when so many of the Autistic people I meet speak of themselves and think of themselves in the language of the pathology paradigm, and when I see how this disempowers them and keeps them feeling bad about themselves. They’ve spent their lives listening to the toxic messages spread by proponents of the pathology paradigm, and they’ve accepted and internalized those messages and now endlessly repeat them in their own heads.

When we recognize that the struggles of neurominorities largely follow the same dynamics as the struggles of other sorts of minority groups, we recognize this self-pathologizing talk as a manifestation of a problem that has plagued members of many minority groups – a phenomenon called internalized oppression.

A contemporary of Audre Lorde’s, the feminist journalist Sally Kempton, had this to say about internalized oppression: “It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.”

The task of liberating ourselves from the master’s house begins with dismantling the parts of that house that have been built within our own heads. And that process begins with throwing away the master’s tools so that we stop inadvertently building up the very thing we’re trying to dismantle.

-”Throw Away the Master’s Tools” from Neuroqueer Heresies by Nick Walker

#nick walker #neuroqueer #neurodiversity #actuallyautistic

[outpouringstorm]

YOU LOOK AT ME AND I SAY "YES."

I crave side blog.

-void milkshake anon

THE PEOPLE ,, THE PERSON HAS SPOKEN

THERE IS NOW A LOCH NESS LATTE SIDE BLOG

@deformedbrewer

#loch ness latte #cryptidcore #cryptid academia #coffee shop #cryptozoology #witchcore #gremlincore #actually autistic #actually neurodivergent #autistic #neurodiversity #neurominority #cafe #cafe aesthetic

[tic-loud-tic-proud]

Just heard the word "neurominority" and I think I like that a lot

#ive never really liked the word neurodivergent but i like this #neurominority

[remedialchaostheory314]

When you're surrounded with neurotypicals and it hits you just how different your reality is from theirs

#neurodivergent #neurospicy #actually autistic #neurotypical weirdos out there #autism slay #autism things #i am sitting alone at a party rn lol #neurodiversity #neurominority

[theohonohan]

Automobility Testimony

I’ve been learning to drive again over the past few months, having given it up immediately after passing my test at the Barking test centre in 2005 (it’s a long story).

My instructor in London was a black evangelical Christian called Emeka. He was a really good instructor. Apart from anything else, he never reacted with shock when I did something wrong. This mattered a lot to me, because I’m pretty sensitive to being perceived as unreliable. I try to be deliberate and scrupulous about everything I do. I mean scrupulous in the strict sense of “very concerned to avoid doing wrong”. When learning to drive, the student is obviously objectively incompetent, so it’s impossible to avoid errors, and there isn’t time to carefully deliberate over every decision. So it is important to have an understanding instructor.

The one or two few driving lessons that I took in Dublin, previously, made me feel like a neurominority. Maybe I am, to a degree. It's a problem because the goal when driving is, as Emeka put it, to be part of the traffic, to conform. So I found it really difficult when a other instructor reacted to an error as if it was an affront, and looked at me as if I had two heads. I felt like this was a judgement that I was unsuited to being a driver. In fact, with Emeka’s tuition, I easily passed the test first time, and I have never had an accident on the roads, either in a car or on a bike.

The definition of a neurominority is essentially someone who has an atypical “spiky profile” of cognitive strengths and weaknesses. So a driving instructor who is used to “normal” students may find a neurominority’s performance a bit perplexing—there will be unexpected errors and rough edges, along with above average performance in other parts of the task.

Neurominority is, in my opinion, a good word to use, in this particular context, because the driving instructor is used to teaching the “neuromajority”, and that experience conditions their expectations. The instructor tries to categorise the student based on how previous students have performed. In the case of a neurominority, the student’s performance won’t conform to the instructor’s expectations. For example, a student that seems like the dull and competent type may turn out to have unpredictable behaviours and eccentricities. The last thing an instructor should do in this situation is dismiss the student as a some kind of intractable can of worms.

Driving instructors, in general, are a male-dominated group, and driving as an activity is part of a consumerist car culture, symbolising “speed, security, safety, sexual desire, career success, freedom, family, masculinity” (John Urry, “The ‘System’ of Automobility”). In addition to this normative culture, homophobia is not uncommon among driving instructors, and it makes life particularly difficult for LGBT people who need to learn to drive: see this Daily Mail article, and another from the Toronto Star.

It tends to be, generalising unfairly, a bit of a caveman demographic, and other forms of intolerance and discrimination are to be expected. Teaching someone to drive can be classed as an “intimate service”. It involves sitting with the student in a car for tens of hours, so some level of rapport is necessary. This, among other factors, means that for minorities of all kinds, negotiating the process of learning to drive is tricky. This is reflected in the statistics for test passes.

I believe (with support from Hofstede) that the masculine consumerist tendency is particularly marked in Ireland. Driving is a man’s world, and car culture reflects an emphasis on success and competition. 

A neurominority learning to drive may be quite out of step with this culture, and may have to deal with being othered by their instructor, along with being treated as an inexplicable and unpredictable freak, someone whose superficially acceptable driving skills continue to harbour the potential for “nasty surprises” (to evoke the most problematic framing of the situation). 

What’s missing in this perspective is an appreciation of the fact that these students are coming from a different place, cognitively speaking, and will learn differently. It should be assumed that they can still achieve the standard needed for safe driving. They will perhaps need more careful and prolonged teaching (relative to the typical student) to build solid skills and iron out all rough spots.

[neuroscotian]

The neurodiversity movement suggests that it takes all kinds of minds for society to function. Instead of accepting their place as inferior, the divergent are reforging their position as 'neurominorities', and are organising in ever greater numbers to change how they are perceived and treated. Robert Chapman looks at the history that led to this movement, showing how the rise of capitalism created an 'empire of normality' that transformed our understanding of the body into that of a productivity machine. Blowing apart this outdated and oppressive understanding of mental functioning, Chapman argues that a bright future for neurodivergent communities could be achieved by challenging the deepest logics of capitalism. Liberation from oppression is possible, but only if we can change the conditions that gave rise to pervasive neuronormative domination across the modern world.

#Neurodiversity #Capitalism

[khizuo]

i've seen the post that's like "don't prop up this mythical idea of a 'neurotypical' who can function perfectly under capitalism because that person doesn't exist" and i agree to an extent but like. idk, i feel like this post, intentionally or not, mostly seems to respond to low-support autistic teenagers on the internet who reblog posts that say "i can't believe neurotypicals are all great at eye contact!!" and not like. all the people who rightly point out that their neurominority (whether it's autism/adhd/tourettes/epilepsy/ocd/ptsd/intellectual disability/cluster-b personality disorders/countless other things i'm not mentioning) is a disability for them and is frequently discriminated against, especially if they are part of a more stigmatized neurominority and/or are physically disabled/high support needs/otherwise multiply marginalized.

like we can say that capitalism makes life difficult for everyone, disabled or not, without implying that disabled neurominorities are not disabled and wouldn't still be disabled if capitalism was dismantled tomorrow. like, even if capitalism was dismantled tomorrow, i'd still have a shit ton of problems caused by my ocd/adhd/autism. and i'm someone who has relatively low support needs and is not physically/intellectually disabled, therefore not as marginalized.

i agree that "neurotypical" is not a defined social category of people and that capitalism needs to be gone, lol, but the wording of that post just isn't for me. does capitalism instill and reinforce ableist structures? absolutely. do those ableist structures need work to dismantle beyond just "end capitalism and everything's fine"? also yes, and accommodations are a big part of that.

#my text #i'm no disabilities studies scholar so anyone who's better read than me on this can correct me #i've only done some reading on disability studies #and the neurodiversity movement #also i'm not angry at the op of the post #i just. have some problems with how it's worded and what it implies

[infinitemonkeytheory]

Many autistic people and ADHD-ers report using “masking” and “camouflaging” in their lives. This is where people conceal certain traits and replace them with neurotypical ones to avoid being recognised as neurominorities.

This can involve changing things such as

• tone of voice

• facial expressions

• eye contact

• speech patterns, and

• body language.

Autistic people make these changes in an effort to match dominant social norms.

Some ADHD-ers also embrace the concept, though ADHD masking remains under-explored in research.

Masking and camouflaging can cause immense stress for neurominorities. And they’re different to the adjustments neurotypical people make in response to social cues. While neurotypical people may moderate behaviour to enhance social success, masking and camouflaging differ as they are used to avoid negative consequences.

Here’s what you need to know.

#adhd #autism #masking