What Gets in the Way of Neuro-inclusion at Work?
The irony is that the more our social construction of western ‘civilisation’ disintegrates, the more our identities will also collapse. Yet, while our internal landscapes are undergoing this seismic shift of existential proportions, the external structures of our work-lives remain rigidly anchored in a performance of the past.
Alexithymia: the inability to recognise a pathologising narrative. Part 1 The Cass Review.
Photo above is of Brigitte Bond (a trans woman) dancing with Ska pioneer Prince Buster in 1964. British...
Who was that masked woman?
Is masking really the reason fewer women are diagnosed as autistic? Are we really incapable of self-awareness and forming a personal identity? Shouldn't we be looking at autistic identity in its historical context?
Masking/Identity/Self
The masking/identity narrative, imv, decontextualises a socio-historical exploration of discrimination and also makes claims of equivalence and commits acts of appropriation it cannot cash out. It omits the multiple determinants that lead to mental health problems and fragmentation of self.