Author: Matt74
Date: 2022-07-25 01:42
FWIW: I find society increasingly hostile to all sorts of differences in spite of all the attention differences get. I believe this is because society at large is becoming more impersonal and less rooted the local community.
When you see someone as a unique person first, it makes sense that they will be unique. All those personal quirks, gifts, and failings are just a part of who they are.
When you see someone as just another stranger, they are more or less interchangeable. All that human "weirdness" becomes "bad" because it's an obstacle to treating them interchangeably.
As a result perfectly normal people are pathologized. That doesn't mean that things we commonly identify as special needs or disabilities aren't real, but they don't always have to be viewed as negative. For example, being an idiot at administration or math doesn't make you "wrong". I get treated horribly because I can't drive, but that's a dumb thing to judge somebody for. Different people need different roles to fill. Denying them the chance to fill those roles is a problem for both the individual and society. Rigid expectations are also a problem.
- Matthew Simington
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