Argumentative Penguin
1 min readApr 10, 2024

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As someone who is an advocate for people in a mental hospital - albeit under UK law, I think you may wish to reconsider some of these things. There is a difference between someone having a bit of an autistic meltdown and someone in the throws of full blown psychosis - I know because I've sen them both. This idea that 'neurodiversity' and mental illness are interchangeable is a dangerous one. You cannot conflate paranoid schizophrenia and ADHD in the same ball-park, they are worlds apart. Nobody stabs people on irrational beliefs caused by ADHD - there are reasons and safeguards for getting sectioned (at least here in the UK) and there are people like me whose job it is to question and insist on legal fairness when people are held against their will. I am an ally for people in hospitals - by virtue of my job and training and I find the neurodiversity movement to be entirely baffling and counter productive.

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Argumentative Penguin
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