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@pathfinder @autistics apparently we used to live in a different culture. There is historical research about how neurodivergence became what it is now, when before it was part of the amplitude of normal. That path has a lot to do with capitalism, and with how our experience of the world changed, when we started to be able to create artificial ones, at the start of industrialization.
But there is another layer here. Trauma and the need to conform to powerstructures make it an imperative that you do not feel or perceive in this integrated way. Neurodivergents may just be less adapted to that, even though we feel the pressure to and most of us would gladly not feel as much if only we had the choice.
I believe humans in general would easily be able to adapt to a different way of feeling and seeing the world. A more interconnected one. If it weren't for fear. For disadvantages to reckon with. For ease of survival and for the perks of conformity.
We may just be stubborn survivors , relics of a previous culture.
I believe the neurodivergent, who says "yes, I want to be this way, this is how I am made and that is how I best serve the whole and thank you, I'm fine" needs courage and creativity and luck to find some space to exist in the margins.
I feel I am happier when I embrace this. It's not a great position to be in but If I manage to survive and thrive I can help reintegrate this viewpoint where it belongs. Into human consciousness. That may or may not work but at least it makes sense beyond just surviving.

@autistics And that is the limitation I feel with such single issue communities. We need to extend our found sense of connection outwards. That is how healing really works. It makes you safer in the world at large. More connected. Not just in an In-group. That's just the first step.
I actually have kind of found the same limitation in any group revolving around a galvanizing issue.
I've explored the perspectives and the intersections of them. I've found languages to speak about being a woman, being autistic , being an unpaid care worker, being this being that. But ultimately I need something else entirely.
A movement of healing and of interconnection, that includes all specific issues and finds a new definition for being human. I am bored with the single issue spaces. I'm a hyperempath . I am neurodivergent. I am bored. I am a woman. I feel connected to all of you out there. I am seeking a language. An open space.
And I am aware that this is a matter of survival of the species. As well as of me as a person. And if I suffer, I suffer as that. Not as an individual person, but as someone who does not have lids to close her eyes nor her sensitive fibers of connection that run every where they should not. Not in the current system of belief in separateness. I exist as a mycelium. An ecosystem of shared breath. Spanning the forest floor of my fellow humans. I hear. I feel . Substances run through my fibers, making me aware of need.
When I leave any such single issue - single perspective group, what I miss most is a language. Briefly, I shared some words with some people. It's always a relief. The connection that runs through the fibers of my being finds resonance in a conscious space of shared experience. In every other instance, that connection is not conscious in our western patriarchal capitalist culture. It remains in the dark, below every ones feet. And while we all root in it, we have forgotten how to nurture it and unite with it.
I am forest mycelium. As such, I suffer, whenever a tree falls, it's a part of me. But I suffer not individually.
The difference I can't explain Not in normal words. I'd have to use woowoo terms that are void of meaning in a culture were spirituality is one more item to be bought and sold an build a disconnected ego around.
I am screaming, I am whispering. I am alive, but I feel very weird exploring this in this invisible space, where integrity of all living beings still exists and will always exist but seems to be outside of all categories that our culture has to offer.@pathfinder ( writing this, I realized maybe I should tag you🤔 )

@autistics I suspect a bunch of people got this post wrong . I am not suffering or wanting more autistic people to follow. The post was about a quality that self help or mutual support communities have, and that I wish all of society had, as it is urgently needed . If we want to survive we need to learn to be supportive of one another and create this connection, even if we don't have a shared suffering. And the rampant suffering we see in all kinds of people will continue until we do.