Neurodivergence Is Not a Diagnosis

On the gatekeeping of socio-political identity

There’s a growing tension in conversations around neurodivergence. An insistence, often from within professional or institutional spaces, that one must hold a clinical diagnosis to be counted amongst the neurodivergent community. However, neurodivergence was never meant to be a club that required a doctor’s permission slip. It is not a gatekept category…