I have been restrained but that doesn't mean that all of psychiatry is bad. I am glad to be born now with medicine for my bipolar disorder than in the past.
I completely agree that they are actually reinforcing the idea that only those who 'contribute' to the public wellbeing are worthy, by their insistence that neurodiversity is essential to the public wellbeing, and to me it is yet again another indication that at the heart of much of the NDM paradigm is an ingrained sense that disability and impairment are shameful and bad. Every individual matters and has worth simply by by existing, by being a totally unique expression of reality. Their argument is also flawed from a biological angle because neurodiversity doesn't really compare to biodiversity (besides whilst generally a good thing, biodiversity is not always beneficial anyway, invasive species for example! So why should all instances of 'neurodiversity' be seen as beneficial? Is this not just an example of the naturalistic fallacy that everything natural is good?). I don't think any theory of disability can reflect reality if it doesn't take into account the fact that we are biological entities - animals - and that we are a social species. We need theories that include the biological and the societal otherwise half the picture is missing. And we have to challenge stigma by removing social significant and value judgments from impairment, not by denying reality.
I think that some levels of neurodiversity are probably good for society but using it to justify our existence and denying the impairment of most autistic people is taking it too far. The video is right to say that it is heading towards a different type of eugenics.
I don't care if people celebrate autism. As long as they don't try to force people to celebrate. Some people see their special interests as a gift. I might have agreed with them when I was younger. I think I could say that autism is not all bad for me. Just mostly bad. Autism might have given me gifts but then it made me too disabled to use those gifts. I don't know.
I think that you are right that the Neurodiversity Movement is trying to prove their worth by being useful to humanity through diversity instead of having inherent worth. It is heading towards eugenics down a different path.
I have been restrained but that doesn't mean that all of psychiatry is bad. I am glad to be born now with medicine for my bipolar disorder than in the past.
I completely agree that they are actually reinforcing the idea that only those who 'contribute' to the public wellbeing are worthy, by their insistence that neurodiversity is essential to the public wellbeing, and to me it is yet again another indication that at the heart of much of the NDM paradigm is an ingrained sense that disability and impairment are shameful and bad. Every individual matters and has worth simply by by existing, by being a totally unique expression of reality. Their argument is also flawed from a biological angle because neurodiversity doesn't really compare to biodiversity (besides whilst generally a good thing, biodiversity is not always beneficial anyway, invasive species for example! So why should all instances of 'neurodiversity' be seen as beneficial? Is this not just an example of the naturalistic fallacy that everything natural is good?).
I don't think any theory of disability can reflect reality if it doesn't take into account the fact that we are biological entities - animals - and that we are a social species. We need theories that include the biological and the societal otherwise half the picture is missing. And we have to challenge stigma by removing social significant and value judgments from impairment, not by denying reality.
I think that some levels of neurodiversity are probably good for society but using it to justify our existence and denying the impairment of most autistic people is taking it too far. The video is right to say that it is heading towards a different type of eugenics.
I don't care if people celebrate autism. As long as they don't try to force people to celebrate. Some people see their special interests as a gift. I might have agreed with them when I was younger. I think I could say that autism is not all bad for me. Just mostly bad. Autism might have given me gifts but then it made me too disabled to use those gifts. I don't know.
I think that you are right that the Neurodiversity Movement is trying to prove their worth by being useful to humanity through diversity instead of having inherent worth. It is heading towards eugenics down a different path.