officialprydonchapter:

forcesunleashed:

forcesunleashed:

ADHD vs. autism prescriptivists are the worst like hate to break it to y’all but hyperfixation is not a medical term…. Special interest is used in both diagnoses whether you want to act like it’s autism exclusive or not

There’s literally constant debate over adding adhd/add to the ASD diagnosis so let’s focus more on the collective ableism both groups face; rather than performative activism over terms.

This wouldn’t be such an issue but that’s the only ableism activism y’all care about and it’s so fucking obvious that y’all only engage in this debate for ally points

Bringing this back because I’m starting to see this spread again, as well as the whole “only autistic people stim!! uwu”

This is important to address in nd communities because of the comorbidity between both disorders, and because horizontal aggression and prescriptivism contribute to intracommunity ableism and misinformation (something tumblr is very good at)

30-50% of people diagnosed with ADHD or ASD have symptoms of both disorders. Difficulty with paying attention and social interaction are the dominant chatacteristics of both- which should lead to a discussion and acknowledgement of common ground between the two. Hell even the treatments used to “treat” both disorders are generally similar or even the same- depending on individual symptoms.

So is no one gonna mention how using diagnostic criteria as the basis of your “neurodiversity” advocacy goes against the fundamental principles of the neurodiversity movement no matter what your position is?

Instead of “only autistic people stim and have special interests uwu” or “these Disorder Symptoms™ are present in both ASD and ADHD” (I cringed writing that sentence), we should be saying that as long as no one is harming anyone else, non-neurotypical traits and ways of being are okay no matter how society labeled the person in question.

The pathology paradigm is a form of violent ableism. Please don’t use it in your anti-ableist advocacy.