About [ADD AD/HD or ADHD] Digression
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What’s typical for the neuro-typical individual isn’t typical for the ADHD individual. Hmm… If it’s not okay to write ADHD individual, then why is it okay to use neuro-typical individual. Or rather, when we use neuro-typical as an adjective what makes using ADHD as an adjective inappropriate. There is just way too much pissiness around disability jargon. Don’t ya think. And, doesn’t it simply add to the crap already mounting (horendous visual – sorry) around ADHD being a negative?
My advisor/mentor in grad school use to say this about my writing. “Go ahead and write. Then when you edit, [dump] your first paragraph. Think he was seeing my first thoughts as me just warming up. Looking at the paragraph above, I’m thinking. As a single piece, he’d probably say the same about the first sentence. I’d say, okay; if your neuro-typical or maybe just my advisor. But if you’re ADD, you know the first sentence as a part of the paragraph definitely makes a difference in meaning. Don’t these neurotypicals know there’s a method to our madness. Okay – trite. Do ya think we’d be so boring as to say, written or spoken, anything that was boring. Do tell. Really. . . . drop down (to comments) and comment.
(Neuro-typicals? When you think in terms of conservation (conversation?) of speech don’t just jump to conclusions – read between the lines or consider double meanings pre-insert foot. Ah, used a cliche. Again.)
