Re: Is your IQ so high it can't be measured? ADHD superpowers

[Ginniebean]

ADHD is not comparable to any of the diseases mentioned above, it is a developmental disability more akin to other chronic conditions like, blindness, deafness, lameness, HFA, Aspergers, etc… All of the above conditions speak of qualities arising out of their loss of function as people with adhd do. The difference being that there have not been well orchestrated campaigns denying their conditions or minimizing them by positive psychology proponents. Because adhd has been the subject of contrived controversy a rigid and inflexible response has come forth out of the adhd community that demands that ADHD only be seen thru a lens of impairment and tragedy.

Blindness is not a disease state any more than adhd is.

ADHD is a serious condition, it does impair, it does wound and it.can kill. I am sympathetic to this inflexibility but I think it has the potential to be as damaging as the raging gifter nonsense that undermined adhd legitimacy as a disability.

I recently lost my father and along with my loss came the ability to connect in a real way with others who had lost a parent. This visceral knowledge is only an advantage when attending to the grief of another but by no means is it an advantage professionally, or across other domains or situations. Living our lives with a condition that permeates ever part of our lives is a huge event, to suggest that nothing ‘good’ comes out of our experience is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Adversity can be quite a teacher.

The neurodiverse movement is not a gifter movement. It is an exercise in confronting ablism that says we need to squeeze ourselves into an ideality template that does not fit and cannot fit. We are neurologically different but this does not mean we have to be an inferior neurological caste member bowing and scraping and apologizing for our condition. Neurodiversity is about civil rights and other stuff.

I hope I wasn’t harsh, I tend towards bluntness but have no intention of being mean.

ADHD is no gift yet we’re not bereft of the qualities that arise out of being different and I see no reason not to celebrate those differences.

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