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Potential Discussion Topics
Neurodivergence & race
- Is your psychologist racist? Questioning diagnosis and medical authority
- History of racism in psychology/psychiatry
Neurodiversity in Activism
- How to integrate awareness of learning disabilities, developmental disabilities and mental illness into activist spaces
Neurodiversity in School
- Neurodivergent academics: is there space for us
- Pressure to succeed/pressure to streamline through. What is our new narrative?
- Special Education classes especially toxic?
Neurodiversity in Socialization
- Parenting a potentially neurodivergent child
- Scrutinizing peer and mentor socialization for internalizing oppression
Neurodiversity in Medicalized Society
- Impact of using slurs/language that hinges on disability being disrespected
- Medical model in mental illness treatment vs social model in adaptation with identity
- The one good brain hypothesis: redefining the value of typical
Neurodivergence & religion
- Seeking cures through spirituality: the harm and the healing
- Keeping faith while neurodivergent
- The history of schizophrenia and theology
Neurodivergence & physical disability
- Double burden or double diversity? Pride politics in physical and mental divergence
- Intercommunity issues: how do we perceive each other
- Physical AND mental disabilities/neurodivergence in the workplace
Neurodiversity & employment
- Developmental disabilities and finding/keeping a job
- Neurodivergent workplace environments/niche construction
How to work with psychologists, therapists, psychiatrists, counseling, and social work to achieve wellness
- How to get NT clinicians to check their privilege
- Clinician abuse and manipulation: past to present
- Misdiagnosis: is it tied to other identities
Neurodiversity & gender/sexuality
- Why Light It Up Blue can piss off: Sexism in research psychology
- Where are the girls? Misdiagnosis/no diagnosis for girls and women
- Some of us have sex: talking about sex and neurodivergence
- Can we learn from the sexual pride movement?
- Special topic: autism and non-conforming gender
Neurodiversity Movement
- Mental health and the pathology paradigm
- Discussions/history lessons on the disability rights movement
Etc.
- Is it appropriate for a person who identifies as NT/is identified as such to compare their experiences/moods to a person who is neurodivergent (“I’m totally OCD about this”, “I was a little bipolar today”)