Giuliana Wheater Therapies For Special Needs

21/08/2025

Wow.

I relate to 98% of this & learning so much as I absorb my adult diagnosis of being obscurely neurodivergent & gifted.

When a human being is made to feel that they are constantly being labelled against comparison to a “normal” brain & that anything outside of that is a deficit or a disorder, these messages wire our brains to comply, to mask, to try desperately to “fit in”.

The internal mental, emotional, psychological & physical suffocation, sacrifices & damage are lifelong.

We get labelled based on external observations & judgments.

“Inclusion”, if there any in place at all, is actually all about separation from those who are “normal” or neurotypical.
It actually excludes us.

If everyone had their different brain types truly understood, if everyone was nourished to their full potential & autonomy, if deviation from neuronormativity was just seen as another part of diversity, mental health co-morbidities & the extremely high suicidality rates amongst us would plummet.

When will the world really hear us and see us ?

15/07/2025

Deficits, Disorders … the real damage behind these labels continues.

Not only do these labels come with many ignorance-based, negative limitations & surface assumptions - but when they are applied to the millions of neurodivergent individuals whose identity centres around high potential, intellectual gifts, abilities & talents, it causes irreversible damage.

Horrific isolation, no sense of meaning or purpose, nervous breakdowns, trauma, PTSD, frequent burn outs & su***de …

Being extremely able in many areas of intelligence, they become “missing persons” inside their own lives.

Instead of being able to contribute, thrive, use their gifts, be accepted for who they are & belong, their real identities become condemned, catalogued & broken by extremely outdated & very faulty neurotypical criteria & social stampings.

So a vast percentage stop waving & just drown.
Silently.
Not a single ripple in the statistics.

Difference Not Deficits.

15/07/2025

Thank you Beverley Sinton for making me aware of this ♥️♥️
It lit up my universe today ♥️

Such hope, such potential, such POSSIBILITY in a world where “labels” and all their negatives can limit or even break you. ♥️

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