Neuro-Diversity, Gender and Sexuality

There are a lot of people in the LGBTQ+ Community who are Neuro-Diverse.

There are also a lot of people in the Heterosexual Community who are Neuro-Diverse ---- and often have trait combinations people are NOT EXPECTING:

• You're a Girlie Girl who is pretty aggressive and/or hyper-intellectual
• Maybe you're a Technical Guy whose pretty passive aggressive.

Or maybe:

• You are pretty far from the Girlie Girl ---- you're some kind of Nature Woman and Talk to Animals or
• ​You are that Sensitive Guy --- BUT that Aggressiveness comes out quite a bit.

Neuro-Diversity is really where HUMANITY comes to know itself ---- because things tend to be on the EXTREMES --- and easier to see.

​Or --- In UNUSUAL COMBINATIONS.

Now --- it can be hard to talk like this in a HIERARCHICAL, TOP DOWN SOCIETY with a lot of IN GROUPS and OUT GROUPS.

The ostensible reason is:   we don't want to be disrespectful, we don't want to hurt anyone's feelings --- and that is true to a point.

BUT the larger problem is that we're skeptical about this EQUALITY business --- 

Of course, buying into INEQUALITY and constant ups and downs of IN GROUPS and OUT GROUPS means ---- things feel UNSTABLE and MEANINGFUL CONVERSATION is often not safe to have on the AGENDA.

I'm posting the excerpt below right for some COUNTER-INTUITIVE reasons --- and it really goes to the "INVISIBILITY" that many Neuro-Diverse people feel.

Ironically, I think the LGBTQ+ Movement has given a segment of the Neuro-Diverse Community some much needed "VISIBILITY."

On the other hand, other segments of the Neuro-Diverse Community are quite "INVISIBLE" to most of Neuro-Typical Society.

On the other, other hand --- you really can't say that the needs of the LGBTQ+ Community are being met and in some quarters there is some DANGEROUS DENIAL.   I think in the circles I run in --- there is AWARENESS but I don't see that AWARENESS for others.

The IRONY or NOT IRONY is ---  the MORE you seem to look like everyone else --- the harder it is not only for other people but for you yourself to realize that you may have some DIFFERENCES that need to be taken into account to maintain your own well being. 

Mom On The Spectrum: 
16 Overlooked Autistic Traits in Women

#1 is Problems in Romantic Relationships, including some kind of Sexual Abuse or Assault.

Stuart Anderson: 
ADHD Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria

Retired Colorado Psychiatrist William Dodson should be credited with recognizing "Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria"  in ADHD.

The Needs of Neuro-Diverse people with a Darker Skin Color or Different Ethnicity are also routinely overlooked.

How To ADHD: 
​What It's Like to be ADHD and BLACK

GENDER FLUIDITY
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Important: We mention gender fluidity here not as an illness
or disease, but rather as a state of being that plays a part in
RCCX theory and appears more prevalent in the gifted
population than in the general population.

​The RCCX complex of genes is associated with gender fluidity,
perhaps because of the way our bodies respond to hormones.

Dr. Meglathery’s thoughts on gender fluidity match the fact that those in the gifted community have long observed a
higher than expected level of gender fluidity in gifted
populations.

​Those involved with highly and profoundly gifted
populations, in particular, have noticed a higher than
expected number of young adults transitioning in recent years
from male to female or from female to male.