It's Not Me, It's You: How Society Gaslights Neurodivergent People

The Different-Functional Podcast

If you’re a neurodivergent person, chances are you’re used to feeling out of step with the rest of the world. Those of us in the community have learned the importance of masking and adaptation because we’ve often been accused of being weird, lazy, unmotivated, easily distracted, overly sensitive, immature, inappropriate, unempathetic, disrespectful, rude, selfish, uncommunicative, bad listeners, etc… The list goes on and on. But what if we’re not actually the problem? It’s possible that we’ve been gaslit our whole lives into believing things about ourselves that are egregiously untrue or misrepresented and then pressured into fixing things about ourselves that were never broken to begin with. Maybe we're just different. And maybe there's nothing wrong with that. To see our resources for this and all our other episodes visit https://www.differentfunctional.com/podcast-resources If you’d like to support us on Patreon you can find us at www.patreon.com/differentfunctional And don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast and leave us a rating and review.