We Are Like Your Child

One of the biggest problems that neurodiversity activists tend to face is a difficulty connecting to parents of neurodivergent children*. For whatever reason, the difficulties and challenges that we articulate do not always *click* with parents as being similar to (or an extension of) the challenges facing their own children.



Sometimes, I will own, this is because we activists have a hard time articulating the relationship between the two. More often, though, it seems to be because the pare...