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Don’t let yourself panic. Don’t give the Capitol that. They’ve taken enough already.
“What would I gain by being a man?" she says. "A cock, a deeper voice, hair across my chest. I would not become stronger. I am already strong." And, she thinks, I would inherit several weaknesses of man's nature: his lust, his boundless aggression, his desire to tame all that he touches--the beasts of the field, the earth, women. For a man cannot see anything in the world without wishing to wear it like a trophy on his back, to call himself master over it. To her, this is what it means to be a man.”
― Joan
― Joan
“In turn, they began to argue that perhaps the problems they all experienced had less to do with their brains being brokem, and more to do with societal failure to accommodate their neurological differences. They thus started to argue for what one 1997 report from the New York Times described as a form of ‘neurological pluralism’. This emphasised the need for the behaviours and processing styles of atypical people to be accepted and supported rather than framed as medical pathologies to be controlled, treated, and cured.”
― Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
― Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
“The dominant medicalised narrative suggested that being autistic made me somehow tragic, broken, and in need of fixing (…) indicating that there was something inherently wrong with me”
― Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
― Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
“You must make your own map of the world. Search out your own piece of sky and patch of earth, your own awning to sleep under when it is raining and it feels the sun may never shine again, for there will certainly be such days. No one can walk this path for you. You cannot simply follow in another's footsteps, as though life were a complicated dance, every turn and twist memorized and prepared for ahead of time. There are many things in the world you can inherit: money, land, power, a crown. But an adventure is not one of them; you must make your own journey.”
― Joan
― Joan
“Out of this came the idea of Neurodiversity, first documented by a sociology student called Judy Singer. The basic point was that we should reject the very idea of a ‘normal’ brain and the ‘neurotypical’ as an ideal. Instead, it implied viewing mental functioning more in the way we view biodiversity.”
― Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
― Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
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